Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud Infra & GitOps Lead

Personio; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days paid vacation

20 Flex Days per year

Pre-IPO equity

Job summary

Personio, an AI-driven HR software company, is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer (Production Engineering) in Dublin or Munich with a requirement for two days in the office. You will build and maintain platform solutions around AWS account management, centralized infra resource management, and continuous delivery, while supporting product teams in provisioning infra resources safely.

The role emphasizes operating Kubernetes/EKS, on-call responsibilities, and driving technical excellence through a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer - ideally with SRE, platform, devops or cloud engineering background.
• Experience with SaaS software development in distributed systems using programming languages such as Typescript, Java/Kotlin, Python.
• Hands on experience with cloud & infra concepts - AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog
• Hands on Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions/GitOps tools)
• You can demonstrate a high quality bar regarding operational best practices.
• You understand how to utilize metrics to define and measure the impact of your work.
• You have a solid tactical mindset and can connect your work with high level strategies set by engineering management and senior engineers.
• You have excellent written and spoken English (level C1/C2 on the CEFR scale).
• You thrive in a blameless environment where every mistake is an opportunity to learn.
• You embrace feedback and can demonstrate previous examples of growth in your career.
• Finally, you have a good sense of humor. Have fun with us, learn with us from mistakes and bring your good vibes!

Responsibilities

• Manage the company's AWS account structure, organisation & permission boundaries. Maintaining foundational infrastructure while also actively monitoring cost & utilisation.
• Manage central infrastructure as code solutions that enable product teams to safely provision the infra resources they need while enforcing standardisation without causing bottlenecks.
• Support the SDLC at Personio by maintaining and operating GitOps based continuous delivery pipelines that support all worklords across all environments.
• Operate and maintain EKS clusters across all environments and runtime integrations for all workloads.
• Document platform capabilities and run internal training sessions where necessary.
• Drive technical excellence with a design led mindset. Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the engineering organisation with the aim to simplify our platform architecture, build a golden path and help tackle technical debt.
• Take ownership of operational responsibilities for platform services within your domain, including on-call participation.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Cloud & infra concepts

English (C1/C2)

Collaboration & communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

GitHub Actions

GitOps

Job description

Personio, an AI-driven HR software company, is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer (Production Engineering) in Dublin or Munich with a requirement for two days in the office. You will build and maintain platform solutions around AWS account management, centralized infra resource management, and continuous delivery, while supporting product teams in provisioning infra resources safely.

The role emphasizes operating Kubernetes/EKS, on-call responsibilities, and driving technical excellence through a