Staff/Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Platform (all genders) at ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG

on-site · full-time · Visa sponsorship

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Responsibilities:
- Architect, maintain and evolve AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) focused on reliability, security and cost efficiency.
- Automate and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows (GitLab CI, Terraform) to ensure safe, repeatable rollouts.
- Own Kubernetes platform components: scaling strategies, secrets management, core networking (VPC, ingress) and cluster operations.
- Implement and maintain observability: monitoring, alerting and logging using Datadog, Opensearch and fluentd to guarantee 24/7 availability.
- Act as a partner and consultant to internal teams: enable developers, review architectures and drive operational excellence.
- Troubleshoot platform incidents, design resilience and capacity plans, and improve platform security posture.

Requirements:
- 5+ years experience in platform/SRE roles with strong AWS and IaC (Terraform) expertise.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cluster operations.
- Proven CI/CD experience (GitLab CI) and infrastructure automation skills.
- Practical knowledge of Go (basic to intermediate) and scripting for automation.
- Experience with observability stacks (Datadog, Opensearch, fluentd) and secrets management practices.
- Strong collaboration skills, familiarity with agile teams, and experience driving platform improvements at scale.