Senior Platform​/DevOps Engineer

Position: Senior Platform/ DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

Stott and May are excited to be working with an innovative software business that is 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.

Due to continued growth, we’re hiring a Senior Platform / Dev Ops Engineer to join the Platform team. You’ll help design, build, and operate Thei AWS- and Kubernetes-based platform, supporting product teams through reliable, scalable infrastructure.

What you’ll do

• Design, operate, and improve our AWS + Kubernetes platform (including hybrid/on-prem integrations)
• Own key areas such as Kubernetes, observability, networking, or infrastructure as code
• Run production AWS environments and Kubernetes clusters (upgrades, security, reliability)
• Build and maintain Git Ops workflows with Argo CD and contribute to CI/CD patterns
• Operate and evolve our observability stack (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, Open Telemetry)
• Define meaningful SLOs, dashboards, and alerting
• Work on Kubernetes networking, ingress, traffic routing, and Envoy-based components
• Build and maintain Terraform modules; migrate existing infrastructure to IaC
• Collaborate with the Platform team on design, incidents, and on-call
• Support product teams with clear platform interfaces and documentation

Experience

• 10+ years in infrastructure, platform, or Dev Ops roles

Strong AWS production experience, including:

• Multi-account environments, networking (VPC, subnets, routing, LB), IAM and security best practices
• Landing Zones and large-scale AWS setups

Strong Kubernetes production experience:

• Operating clusters (EKS or similar), workloads, autoscaling, upgrades, and lifecycle management

Observability experience with tools such as:

• Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana
• Loki, Tempo or similar logging/tracing systems
• Open Telemetry for metrics, logs, and traces

Solid networking fundamentals:

• TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, routing, VPNs, firewalls, load balancing
• Envoy (or Envoy-based systems), Ingress controllers, API gateways, SD-VPNs

Infrastructure as Code expertise:

• Terraform and Terragrunt at team or org scale (modules, state, remote backends)

Git Ops experience:

• Argo CD, app-of-apps patterns, environment promotion, RBAC/ABAC

Nice to have

• Crossplane in production
• Experience in Platform / Enablement teams
• Argo Workflows or similar orchestration tools
• AWS Control Tower / Account Factory
• German language skills (B2)

What’s on offer

A modern environment with flat hierarchies. Colleagues often highlight our great spirit in achieving their goals. The company is a place to be yourself, aim high, take care of each other and grow without limits. Additionally, they offer the following benefits:

• Modern hardware and the opportunity to work with cutting‑edge technologies
• Besides our 100% remote work possibility
• Space and budget for personal growth
• Flexible working hours
• 30 days vacation
• Coffee, tea and water are free in our office
• Job Rad-Leasing
• Events for employees to celebrate our achieved goals and great team-spirit
• Community of Practice and Knowledge Nuggets for improving your skills

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