Job description
Senior Platform/ DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)
Full-time · Remote
Stott and May are excited to be working with Innovative software business who are disrupting the Smart Homes Space. They help customers by making buildings more climate-friendly, more comfortable, and more affordable using Smart connected devices (IoT), simple products and high processing and service quality.
Your mission
We are looking for a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to join our existing Platform team. They run a modern AWS + Kubernetes platform, but we also integrate with traditional / on-prem infrastructure.
You will help design, build and operate the core platform used by our product teams: Kubernetes clusters, networking, observability, GitOps, and infrastructure as code. Working closely with other platform engineers and the Lead DevOps Engineer, owning specific areas and driving improvements end-to-end.
In addition, you'll be responsible for the following task:
Platform engineering
1. Design, build and operate our AWS- and Kubernetes-based platform.
2. Own one or more areas (e.g. Kubernetes, observability, networking, IaC) and act as the go-to person for those topics in the team.
Cloud & Kubernetes
3. Operate production AWS environments (multi-account, multi-environment).
4. Operate Kubernetes clusters (upgrades, capacity, reliability, security).
GitOps & delivery
5. Design and maintain Argo CD–based GitOps workflows (multi-cluster, multi-env).
6. Contribute to CI/CD patterns and deployment strategies together with the team.
Observability
7. Evolve and operate our observability stack: Metrics: Prometheus, Thanos Logs: Grafana Loki Traces: Grafana Tempo Instrumentation: OpenTelemetry Help define SLOs, dashboards and alerting that are actually useful for teams.
Networking & connectivity
8. Work on Kubernetes networking, Ingress controllers and traffic routing.
9. Contribute to designs using Envoy (or Envoy-based components), API gateways and SD-VPN solutions.
Infrastructure as Code
10. Build and maintain Terraform modules and state layouts for AWS, Kubernetes and related infrastructure.
11. Help migrate existing/manual infrastructure to Terraform with minimal disruption.
12. (Bonus) Use Crossplane where it makes sense for Kubernetes-driven provisioning.
Hybrid & on-prem integration
13. Support connectivity and integration between cloud workloads and on-prem systems.
Collaboration
14. Work as part of the existing Platform team, participate in design reviews, incident reviews and on-call.
15. Support product teams as internal customers by providing clear platform interfaces, documentation and examples.
Experience:
16. 10+ years of experience in infrastructure / operations / platform / DevOps roles.
17. Strong experience with AWS in production: Multi-account setups (e.g. separation of dev / test / prod). Networking (VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancers). Landing Zones IAM and security best practices.
18. Strong experience with Kubernetes in production: Operating clusters (EKS or similar). Workloads, deployments, autoscaling, upgrades and cluster lifecycle.
19. Solid observability experience with at least several of: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana. Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo or similar logging/tracing systems. OpenTelemetry for metrics/logs/traces instrumentation and pipelines.
20. Experience with SD-VPN solutions (e.g. AWS VPN, Tailscale or similar).
21. Strong experience with Terraform and Terragrun: Modular design, state management, remote backends. Managing AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure as code at team or org scale.
22. Hands-on experience with Argo CD and GitOps principles: Application structure, app-of-apps patterns, promotion across environments, RBAC and ABAC.
23. Experience with traditional/on-prem infrastructure (VMs, networks, VPNs, storage, legacy systems) and connecting it to cloud environments.
24. Comfortable working in a remote-first environment in European time zones (good written communication, async collaboration).
Nice to have:
25. Experience with Crossplane in production.
26. Experience in a Platform/Enablement team serving multiple product teams..
27. Experience with Argo Workflows or similar workflow/orchestration tools.
28. Experience with AWS Control Tower and Account Factory
29. German language skills (B2)
What’s on offer
A modern environment with flat hierarchies. Colleagues very often highlight our great spirit to achieve Their goals. The company is a place to be yourself, aim high, taking care of each other and growing without limits. Additionally, They offer following benefits:
30. Modern hardware and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
31. Besides our 100% remote work possibility, we offer an office in Hamburg (Hammerbrook) and also co-working spaces all over Europe, for a more personal collaboration
32. Space and budget for personal growth
33. Flexible working hours
34. 30 days vacation
35. Coffee, tea and water for free in our office
36. JobRad-Leasing
37. Events for employees to celebrate our achieved goals and great team-spirit
38. Community of Practice and Knowledge Nuggets for improving your skills