Senior Platform Engineer

XM; Poland; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Intellectually stimulating environment

International training

Job summary

XM is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join a DevOps‑oriented team that pushes cloud services using AWS, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices.

You will mentor juniors, enhance CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and collaborate with security and development teams to keep systems reliable and secure.

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline.
• 7+ years' experience in Cloud ( AWS), Release Pipeline Management, Windows Server/Linux Administration, scripting (PowerShell/Bash/Python), Configuration Management and IAC (Ansible/Terraform), DNS, Networking.
• Commitment to continuous improvement with observability and modern architectures, blue-green/canary deployments, CI/CD.
• Ability to self-motivate, study and stay current with emerging technologies and trends while meeting deadlines.
• Experience with Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MSK, New Relic

Responsibilities

• Initiate and drive adoption of patterns and use of technologies for development and operations.
• Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements.
• Monitor and improve CI/CD processes for speed, safety, and reliability.
• Coordinate implementation with involved parties.
• Develop and maintain GitLab CI pipeline libraries.
• Assist developers with CI/CD setup and troubleshooting.
• Stay up to date with tools and industry trends.
• Provide senior-level recommendations for Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments.
• Mentor junior team members and guide continued learning.
• Educate teams about platforms (GitLab, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Istio, Kubernetes, Kafka, ELK).
• Collaborate with Security to remediate vulnerabilities and ensure security scrutiny.
• Offer services to other Group companies as instructed by Line Manager.

Skills

Self-motivation

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Learning mindset

Education

University degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Istio

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Bash

Python

DNS

Networking

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

MSK

New Relic

Kafka

Job description

As our new Senior Platform Engineer, you will join a team who strive to push cloud services to the maximum limit every day using cutting-edge technologies. If you are a highly self-motivated professional who embraces DevOps culture, has experience with AWS services and technologies and is passionate about learning, automating, innovating and working in a highly collaborative environment, we'd like to hear from you!

The main responsibilities of the position include:

• Initiate and actively drive the adoption of good patterns, structures and use of technologies for development and operations
• Investigate and identify practices and work that can benefit from automation
• Monitor and suggest improvements to the existing CI/CD process to increase speed, safety and reliability
• Implement and coordinate implementation with the parties involved
• Develop and maintain existing /GitLab CI pipeline libraries
• Assist developers with setting up CI/CD for their projects and provide support for any issues that may arise
• Stay up to date with the latest tools and trends in the industry
• Provide senior-level, best practice recommendations and implementations to our Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments
• Function as a mentor to junior team members, providing technical guidance and recommending continued learning opportunities to help them develop
• Educate fellow team members as well as Application Development Teams about the platforms used-for and hosted-by our team. Key tools and concepts in this space are: Gitlab, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Istio Service Mesh, Kubernetes , Kafka, ELK
• Work with our Security team to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities and ensure the security of our environments are being scrutinised as appropriate for their use case
• Offer services related to the above tasks and projects to any of the Companies of the Group as instructed by the Line Manager

Main requirements:

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline
• 7+ years' experience within the following areas: Cloud ( AWS), Release Pipeline Management, Windows Server Administration, Linux Administration, Certificate Management, PowerShell scripting, Bash/python scripting, Configuration Management and IAC (Ansible/Terraform), DNS, Networking
• Commitment to continuous improvement, with a focus on observability, modern application architecture styles, blue-green / canary deployments, CI/CD pipeline management
• Ability to self-motivate, study, and stay on-top of emerging technologies and trends, while meeting business deadlines
• Experience with tools including: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MSK, New Relic

The following will be considered an advantage:

• Familiarity with database concepts
• Working experience with at least one cloud provider (preferably AWS)
• Experience with Apache Kafka configuration and troubleshooting
• Experience with ELK configuration and troubleshooting

Benefit from:

• Intellectually stimulating work environment
• Continuous personal development and international training opportunities

The Hiring Experience: What Awaits You

• Show Your Skills - Online Technical Challenge
• Lets Connect - Intro Chat with Talent Acquisition
• Deep Dive - First Interview with Your Future Team
• Final Connection - Final Interview

All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality!