Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud & Infrastructure

Kooku Recruiting GmbH - Interim Recruiting & RPO

Senior Platform Engineer building Cloud and infrastructure for securely scaling healthcare platform. Collaborating with architecture and backend development teams in creating a modern tech stack.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanySenior💰 €80,000 - €110,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You build out the cloud and infrastructure for a production-grade platform
You introduce new cloud components for persistence, monitoring, and security
You establish a resilient operations foundation with logging, observability, and CI/CD pipelines
You provision cloud resources consistently and maintainably using Infrastructure as Code
You prepare technical foundations for robust artifact management and controlled audit access
You make well-founded technical decisions and surface risks early
You drive larger topics pragmatically into viable implementations

Requirements

What you’ll need

You are an experienced software engineer focused on platform, cloud, infrastructure, or backend-oriented systems development
You operate applications in a secure, auditable, and stable manner—not just develop them
You understand security at system boundaries: authentication, secret handling, tenant isolation, and secure access models
You are comfortable with cloud setups, deployments, and build/delivery pipelines
You describe infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code in a reproducible and reviewable way; Pulumi knowledge is a plus
You work hands-on and write production-oriented code yourself
You think in terms of risks, dependencies, and vertical slices rather than large transformation programs
You communicate clearly and drive topics forward independently

Benefits

Comp & perks

Real influence: you shape the cloud architecture, operations, and platform standards from an early stage
Meaningful product in regulated healthcare with societal impact
Small senior tech team, short decision paths and decisions without long committee processes
Modern AI tools explicitly encouraged in daily development (e.g., coding agents)
Remote-first within Germany
Flexible working hours and freedom to actively negotiate priorities
Opportunity to move toward a Cloud/Infrastructure Lead role as the team and system landscape grow

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructureCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as Codeartifact managementsecure access modelsauthenticationsecret handlingtenant isolationproduction-oriented codemonitoring

Soft Skills

communicationrisk managementindependent driving of topicstechnical decision makingproblem solving