Platform Engineer (Senior)

Job Description

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join our DevEx Platform team. You will help build and operate the internal platform that other engineering teams depend on GitOps delivery a Kubernetes-based runtime infrastructure automation and developer self-service.

This is a role for builders. We need someone who picks up a mission drives it across teams and ships outcomes not tickets. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with CloudOps DevSecOps FinOps and SRE and use AI and agentic AI as everyday tools to accelerate everything you do. We expect AI fluency not curiosity.

Who You Are

• A team player who builds with people not around them

• Assertive and decisive you propose defend and drive technical direction

• Mission-driven you finish what you start

• AI-native you use AI assistants and agentic workflows daily to multiply your output

What Youll Do

• Build and operate the internal platform: GitOps delivery Kubernetes runtime infrastructure automation and developer self-service

• Use AI coding assistants and agentic workflows to automate platform tasks investigation remediation documentation scaffolding

• Operate ArgoCD as a core platform capability: GitOps workflows multi-environment delivery ApplicationSets progressive delivery

• Maintain and extend Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OpenTofu) for platform components

• Manage the GitHub organization as a platform service: reusable Actions workflows branch and environment protections OIDC to AWS CI bots and Copilot org policies

• Operate JFrog Artifactory as the artifact backbone: registries retention promotion and vulnerability scanning

• Design and troubleshoot AWS networking across multi-VPC topologies

• Collaborate with CloudOps DevSecOps FinOps and SRE; mentor and bring new tools and patterns to the team

What Youll Bring

Required:

• 7 years in Platform Engineering SRE or closely related roles

• Platform mindset you build platforms and self-service capabilities not a ticket queue

• Hands-on daily use of AI coding assistants and agentic AI workflows

• AWS proficiency: EKS IAM S3 RDS Lambda CloudWatch

• AWS networking: VPC subnets CIDR planning route tables security groups peering / Transit Gateway VPC endpoints Route53 confident designing and troubleshooting multi-VPC topologies

• Kubernetes: strong operational proficiency deploying troubleshooting and instrumenting workloads

• ArgoCD & GitOps: multi-environment deployments ApplicationSets progressive delivery

• Terraform / OpenTofu

• CI/CD pipeline design (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions or both)

• GitHub as a platform: org/team/repo administration reusable Actions workflows OIDC to AWS CI bots Copilot org policies

• Artifact management: JFrog Artifactory or directly comparable (Nexus GitHub Packages at scale)

• Scripting: Python Go Bash or similar

Big advantages:

• IDP tools (Port Backstage)

• Crossplane for Kubernetes-based infrastructure management

• Argo ecosystem depth (Rollouts Workflows Events)

• SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs error budgets incident response) and DORA metrics

• Experience building or operating internal AI-powered developer tools

A plus:

• Observability (Datadog OpenTelemetry Prometheus & Grafana)

• Service mesh (Istio Linkerd) FinOps Policy as Code (OPA Kyverno)

• Certifications: CKA/CKAD AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps / Advanced Networking HashiCorp Terraform

If you are a team player assertive mission-driven and you build with AI as a daily partner your place is with us.

What We Offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Pension and health (Canadian Medical) contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport card Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone parking in the garage showers refreshments

• Competitive salary incentive pay and many more

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