Senior Platform Engineer
About the company
Hi there! If you’re seeking a high-impact role within an ambitious and fast-growing software house, you might have just found your perfect match!
Our client provides an AI-driven Intelligent Observability Platform designed to transform complex telemetry into actionable business automation.
Your tasks
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to solve complex multi-region automation challenges. Standing up new global regions (e.g., Japan) currently involves heavy toil with cell-based architectures, Kafka clusters, and hundreds of deployment configurations. You will design and build high-level orchestration workflows above base Terraform to make multi-region provisioning seamless and automated.
- 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 high-level 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 IaC (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.
Must have: Terraform, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, Amazon EKS, Helm, IaC