Senior Platform Engineer in Munich

www.cardandpaymentjobs.com; Düsseldorf, München; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading innovator in mobile payments is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer for a mainly home working role with some office visits in Düsseldorf or Munich. Candidates should have 3+ years in DevOps or similar fields, with expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. This role involves developing cloud solutions, improving performance, and educating teams on new technologies. Join a global team in an exciting and innovative environment.

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Proficiency in languages such as Bash, Python, or Java.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.

Aufgaben

• Develop, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-based solutions.
• Define and create CI/CD pipelines for automating tasks.
• Design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems.

Kenntnisse

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Bash

Python

Java

Tools

Docker

Puppet

Ansible

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Dusseldorf / Munich

Skills: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Our client is a global fintech in the mobile payments space. They work collaboratively with colleagues and across disciplines with clients, partners and operations based all over the world. This is a busy, exciting, and demanding place to work, but it’s the people that make the company.

They are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer. This is a mainly home working role but will require some visits to their Dusseldorf or Munich offices (depending on where you are based). If you are an experienced Senior Platform Engineer looking for a new challenge in an exciting, innovative and international working environment, or a Platform Engineer looking for your next step up, this is the perfect job for you.

In this role, you will work with the Platform team to develop, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-based solutions. You will be responsible for provisioning, debugging and optimising cloud infrastructure, educating teams on new cloud initiatives, and ensuring the security of the cloud infrastructure.

What will set you apart for this role is your ability to :

• Communicate and not be afraid to ask questions to seek clarity
• Your technical expertise
• Your proactive mindset and ability to give opinions with a logical rationale
• Write documentation
• Experience optimizing running costs of AWS

Platform Engineer Responsibilities

• Define and contribute to the following topics
  • Infrastructure strategy and tools
  • Application logging strategy and format
  • Building highly available clusters (k8s, EKS)
  • Deployment orchestration
  • Services/application monitoring
  • Define and create CI/CD pipelines for automating tasks
  • Maintain infrastructure tools (docker registry, Jenkins, Nginx, etc.)
  • Investigate and introduce new tools for improving the application performance, deployment performance, and the security of the deployed stack
• Designing, developing, and deploying modular cloud-based systems
• Improve system performance and maintain overall infrastructure to ensure high availability
• Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements
• Provide documentation for running and operating systems
• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud technologies and initiatives

Platform Engineer Requirements

• Professional experience:
  • 3+ years experience in DevOps, Platform or Site Reliability Engineering
  • Experience with managing infrastructure on cloud providers such as AWS
  • Experience managing, analysing, and troubleshooting highly available and distributed systems
  • Proficiency in a language such as Bash, Python, Java, or similar
  • Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Deployment Orchestration
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
  • Experience with configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible)