Senior Platform Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Platform Engineer

• Focus: Multi-region automation, Kafka on Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code standards

Description

You will solve complex multi-region automation challenges by designing and building high-level orchestration workflows above Terraform. The work includes automating global region provisioning using cell-based architectures, operating and optimizing Kafka clusters on Kubernetes, and standardizing reliability and observability across regions. Simplify complex deployment configurations into scalable platform tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement advanced automation workflows above Terraform to automate full-region spin-ups and deployment cells.

• Manage and optimize large-scale Kafka clusters running on Kubernetes.

• Maintain and scale infrastructure across AWS (primary) and Azure environments using Kubernetes (EKS), RDS, and proprietary storage systems.

• Simplify complex YAML configurations, pipelines, and deployment templates into scalable platform tooling.

• Drive reliability, observability, and infrastructure-as-code standards across global regions.

Requirements

• Proven experience building advanced automation workflows beyond basic Terraform scripts.

• Deep hands-on experience operating Apache Kafka on Kubernetes at scale.

• Strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

• Experience with cell-based architectures, multi-region deployments, and pipeline orchestration.

• Openness to occasional pre-scheduled evening calls (between 17:00–21:00 CET) to sync with US-based stakeholders.

Benefits

Not specified in the provided posting.