Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d) – Germany or UK – Remote or Hybrid

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Requirements:

• Programming background is essential (high level language, ideally Java or TypeScript).
• A strong background in the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, cost-effective and auto-scaling architectures.
• Understanding of Domain-Driven Design and Collaborative modelling.
• Experience with event-driven architectures / Apache Kafka.
• Building on the AWS using any of the common automation frameworks like Pulumi, Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience with large-scale system handling terabytes of data and tens of thousands of messages per second.
• Experience operating relational (Oracle, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch) databases.
• Experience with monolith-to-microservices migrations and patterns such as strangler and change-data-capture.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the full lifecycle of our platform (analysis, design, implementation, testing, infrastructure, and operations).
• Support development teams in terms of platform and infrastructure development and evolution.
• Cooperate with global IT platform of technical organisation and security team to keep platform up to security standards.
• Provide health and cost monitoring tools and automation of platform, CI/CD pipeline templates and blueprints.
• Proactively optimise performance and cost.
• Coaching, mentorship, and training of your colleagues.