DevOps/Platform Engineer

E Plato; Milano; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in E-Plato

Ownership of production deployments

Job summary

E-Plato in Milan seeks a DevOps/Platform Engineer to turn Socrate into a self-installing product across customer environments. You’ll build repeatable pipelines, modular Terraform, and Helm charts to deploy anywhere, including air-gapped networks.

You’ll work with our CTO on prioritization, extending AWS, Azure or GCP, and enabling secure, scalable installations in production. This role is on-site in Milan.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in DevOps, Platform, SRE or Cloud with infrastructure you built
• Terraform (your own reusable modules), solid AWS plus Azure or GCP
• Kubernetes in production and Helm charts you wrote
• CI/CD and scripting in Bash and Python or Go
• A builder's mindset: no big team, no ticket queue

Responsibilities

• First 60 days: make installs repeatable with reusable Terraform modules and Helm charts
• From month 3: push-button deployments, automated path from contract to running instance, safe upgrades and rollbacks
• Ongoing: engage with customer IT, handle security questionnaires, and provide on-site or remote install support

Skills

Terraform modules

AWS

Azure or GCP

Kubernetes

Helm charts

CI/CD

Bash scripting

Python/Go

On-prem / air-gapped installs

OT environments

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD tooling

Job description

A production line stops. A technician opens a 400-page electrical schematic and starts looking. Sometimes it takes twenty minutes. Sometimes it's 3 a.m., it takes six hours, and the plant burns thousands of euros an hour.

We build the software that tells them where to look. Now we need someone to make it install itself anywhere.

THE PRODUCT

Socrate reads electrical schematics in every format the factory uses, reads PLC code from any vendor, connects the two and points the technician to the fault. It's not a chatbot with RAG bolted on: every answer traces back to the exact component and the exact line of code it came from. In a plant, that's the only way anyone trusts it.

THE COMPANY

E-Plato, Milan. VC-backed, Bocconi for Innovation (B4i) alumni. Multinational industrial customers who pay, use the product every day, and renew.

THE ROLE

You'll be our first DevOps / Platform Engineer. Not to babysit servers: to turn Socrate into a product that installs itself in any customer environment.

We run on AWS with Terraform and Kubernetes. Customers want Socrate on their own cloud, whatever the provider, and some want it inside their plants, on networks that never touch the internet. Today every installation still takes too much manual work, and every new customer makes that problem bigger.

There's more to fix than one person can do in a year. Part of the job is deciding what comes first. You'll work directly with our CTO.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• First 60 days: make installs repeatable. Reusable Terraform modules for AWS and at least one other cloud, Helm charts that install cleanly anywhere, and a runbook so installs stop living in one person's head.
• From month 3: push-button deployments. One automated path from signed contract to running instance, CI/CD with safe upgrades and rollbacks, and installs in restricted networks (private registries, proxies, on-prem, air-gapped).
• Ongoing: the customer's IT is part of the job. Technical calls, security questionnaires, and on-site or remote support during installs.

YOU HAVE

• 4+ years in DevOps, Platform, SRE or Cloud, with infrastructure you built, not only maintained
• Terraform (your own reusable modules), solid AWS plus Azure or GCP
• Kubernetes in production and Helm charts you wrote
• CI/CD and scripting in Bash and Python or Go
• A builder's mindset: no big team, no ticket queue
• Bonus points for on-prem or air-gapped installs, k3s/RKE2, Argo CD, Vault, Prometheus/Grafana, or OT environments.

WHAT WE OFFER

• RAL €55,000–65,000 based on experience
• Equity in E-Plato
• Real ownership: your decisions ship to production and to customer plants