Senior Platform Engineer

Our customer is the European online car market with over 30 million monthly users, with a market presence in 18 countries. 

The role: 

Become part of Platform Engineering team and enable engineering teams to deliver software quickly and reliably, living our “you build it, you run it” approach. We are responsible for internal core infrastructure products, like our centralized Kubernetes cluster and managed CI/CD solutions, used across 30+ teams. Topics like scalability, resilience, observability, and resource optimization are part of our daily conversations. We invest in self-service and a product mindset with an emphasis on developer experience to increase our impact. We also contribute to the improvement of the architecture, engineering practices, and processes across the company. 

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of core IaaS concepts such as compute, storage, networking, and identity management. 
• Experience with IaaS cloud providers, particularly AWS (experience with Azure, GCP, etc., also considered). 
• Expertise in Platform Engineering and/or DevOps principles, with a focus on automation and reliability. 
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills, with a solution-oriented mindset. 
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD processes and best practices for safely deploying code. 
• Cloud & CDN: Strong AWS expertise; hands-on experience with Akamai (or migrating from it to AWS) will be a huge advantage.
• IaC: Deep expertise in AWS CDK and Terraform.
• Observability: Strong experience with Grafana and New Relic.
• CI/CD: Proficiency with GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the end-to-end operations of the products managed by your team.
• Keep your team's products up to date by leveraging a modern, state-of-the-art tech stack. 
• Collaborate closely with an Engineering Manager and cross-functional tech teams to identify and solve critical problems. 
• Influence architectural decisions, choose the right technologies, and develop infrastructure products that meet business needs. 
• Lead key projects and initiatives, taking ownership of their successful execution.
• Be a bar-raiser within the company by defining and advocating best practices for safe code deployment. Develop the tools that empower teams to adopt these practices. 
• Lead and execute infrastructure migration projects: 
• Migration from Akamai to AWS;
• Migration from New Relic to Grafana;
• Migration from Terraform to AWS CDK (Infrastructure as Code).
• Resolve platform security tickets and ensure high standards of infrastructure protection.
• Build clear execution plans, align with cross-functional teams across multiple time zones, and share updates promptly.