Senior SRE / Platform Engineer Cloud & DevOps Berlin / Warsaw / Remote EU →

Nearcore; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 133,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Learning budget €3,000/yr

Hardware provided

Pension contributions up to 6%

Job summary

nearcore IT is seeking a senior platform engineer to join a small pod embedded with a client in the DACH or Nordics region. You’ll act as the client’s senior engineer, using their Slack, repo, and on-call rhythm, and participate in a weekly nearcore guild to share platform practices.

You’ll own architectural decisions, push back when needed, and write runbooks that others will actually use. Expect ongoing AWS/Azure/GCP work, Terraform or Pulumi leadership, and a strong emphasis on documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and running production platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP at scale.
• Senior on Terraform (or Pulumi). Comfortable with Helm, ArgoCD, Istio or the equivalent.
• You've been on-call and written post-mortems.
• Documentation, runbooks, ADRs are part of your craft.
• English working language; German, Polish, or French is a plus and fits UTC+1/2 schedules.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Terraform module library for migrations and platforms.
• Architectural calls and runbooks to ensure operability.
• Lead on-call rotations and post-mortems for incidents.
• Collaborate with client senior engineers and contribute to a shared knowledge guild.

Skills

5+ years experience

European time zone

English language

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Helm

ArgoCD

Istio

Job description

Embedded with one of our DACH or Nordics clients, building the kind of platform their own team will actually run when we leave.

You'll join a 3–5 person nearcore pod embedded with a client — usually a DACH bank, telco, or industrial. Your day looks like the client's senior engineers' day: their Slack, their repo, their on-call (when scoped). Plus a weekly nearcore guild where the platform discipline trades notes.

You're senior. That means you make architectural calls, push back when the brief is wrong, and write the runbooks that someone else will actually use.

What you'll work on this year

• An EKS migration for a Tier-1 bank — already mid-flight, you'd own the Terraform module library.
• A green-field FinOps platform for a Nordic SaaS — Crossplane, OpenCost, internal developer portal.
• Helping a healthtech client cut their CI from 38 minutes to under 10 — Buildkite, monorepo splits, the whole thing.
• One project we don't know about yet, because that's how this works.

About you

• 5+ years building and running production platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP — at least one at a serious scale.
• Senior on Terraform (or Pulumi). Comfortable with Helm, ArgoCD, Istio or the equivalent.
• You've been on-call. You've written the post-mortem. You can tell when someone is bullshitting in an incident.
• You write. Documentation, runbooks, ADRs. Not because you love it, but because you've seen what happens when nobody does.
• European time zone. English working language; German, Polish, or French is a real plus.

The deal

• Day rate €720–€960 depending on experience. Reviewed annually.
• 30 days holiday. Two weeks fully paid between projects.
• €3,000/yr learning budget. Conferences are work, not benefit.
• Hardware: pick what you want, we buy it.
• Pension contributions matched up to 6% (DE/AT/CH); local equivalent elsewhere in EU.