Senior Platform Engineer (f/m/d) - Cloud Infrastructure

<p>Our cross-functional Engineering teams develop scalable and secure microservices and APIs for the different domains of our product. As<strong> Platform Engineer</strong> you are not only an individual contributor but support your team with a strong customer-centric mindset and a drive to take on ownership over product capabilities or technical components. Two-week sprints based on Scrum help our teams to self-organize their tasks and continuously improve the way they work to deliver value through our products for our customers. The Platform teams have a few different topics we are working on, you can take a look at the<a href="https://www.leanix.net/en/company/career/jobs?gh_jid=6001293003"> Platform Engineer - Site Reliability </a>role for more information on the scope of everything we do.</p> <p><strong>WHAT IS WAITING FOR YOU?</strong></p> <p>As part of one Platform Team, you will play a vital role in embracing a product-centric mindset while focusing on automation, orchestration, and robust systems:</p> <ul> <li>'Shift left' approach will be your mantra — moving tasks closer to the most suited team, and extending the agile philosophy across the organization.</li> <li>Implement, maintain, and optimize continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, aiding in the swift and efficient delivery of software products.</li> <li>Use Kubernetes to orchestrate containerized applications, virtual machines (VMs), and serverless architectures, crafting a platform that simplifies engineering workloads.</li> <li>Implement microservice onboarding pathways, delivering frictionless integration experiences for other engineering teams.</li> <li>Centralize your efforts around enhancing our network infrastructure, managing Service Mesh, DNS, and employing cutting-edge network security practices.</li> </ul> <p>Passionate colleagues who are looking forward to share knowledge (<a href="https://engineering.leanix.net/categories/frontend/">see our blog</a>!) and learn from you.</p> <p>You will be part of our larger development organization and contribute to cross-team knowledge building &amp; sharing - with explicit options to share your knowledge across our entire company and beyond, e.g. on conferences</p> <p><strong>WHY SHOULD YOU CARE? </strong><br/><strong>Well, there are multiple reasons:</strong></p> <ul> <li>We have invested a lot in a working environment that allows everyone to thrive. We believe in <strong>open access</strong> to leadership, transparent communication, personal development and that our world-class team deserves the <strong>best software stack</strong> money can buy.</li> <li>We're solving hard engineering challenges at a large scale, which requires <strong>creativity </strong>and very strong engineering knowledge.</li> <li>We have a culture of <strong>empowered product teams</strong>, which means you're not just executing a roadmap that someone hands to you, but you actually get problems to solve. And from that, we value and reward outcomes, not just output.</li> <li><strong>We build it, we run it</strong>! We are not just building and delivering features, but we also make sure our customers can rely on them. This means we value resilience, a high degree of automation and staying ahead of our customers whenever something goes wrong.</li> <li>We prioritize <strong>continuous improvement, </strong>collaboration and sharing knowledge. As a product team, we also want to continuously improve our products by validating and measuring how users are using them.</li> <li>We value work-life balance, support working remotely or on-site, and we believe a <strong>well-rested and well-rounded person</strong> with interests outside their job is the best engineer. We offer flexible working hours, so you can adapt your job to your life.</li> </ul> <p><strong>WHAT IS OUR STACK?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Istio and Cillium</li> <li>Modern CI/CD and infrastructure tool chain: Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible</li> <li>Monitoring &amp; Alerting, e.g., Instana, Grafana, Fluent Bit, PagerDuty</li> <li>Java &amp; Kotlin using microservice frameworks such as Dropwizard, Quarkus and Spring Boot</li> <li>PostgreSQL, Event Streaming, Elasticsearch, Kafka</li> <li>API Technologies such as REST and GraphQL</li> <li><a href="https://engineering.leanix.net/about/#our-tech-stack">Find out more about our stack</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Solve problems and deliver customer value</li> <li>Have working knowledge of administrating Kubernetes and container orchestration.</li> <li>Have a deep understanding of public cloud providers, with a strong preference for experience with Azure.</li> <li>Familiarity with cloud automation tools like Terraform is also highly valued.</li> <li>Appreciate the efficiency that CI/CD brings and are familiar with tools like GitHub and Argo CD.</li> <li>Deep understanding of networking principles, Service Mesh, and DNS.</li> <l