
Senior Platform Engineer
Loft Labs
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Germany
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Salary
💰 €80,000 - €110,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Infrastructure Management: Own and improve our multi-cloud infrastructure spread across AWS, GCP, and Digital Ocean. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, handle patching, manage access, and enhance to ensure our tooling has robust alerts and metrics.
- CI/CD Optimization: Drive the improvement of GitHub CI pipelines. You will be responsible for creating secure, repeatable testing environments and automating pipeline updates to streamline the developer experience.
- Internal Services Architecture: Architect and host infrastructure for engineering development, including internal services and vCluster-specific platforms (e.g., loft.rocks, vCluster Cloud). You will empower engineers to build pipelines securely through education and tooling.
- Customer Zero: Act as the first and most critical user of our products. You will push vCluster features to their limits to create useful internal tools, discovering bugs and providing feedback to Engineering to shape the future of our software.
- Terraform Automation: Focus on automating updates and managing infrastructure as code using Terraform Spacelift. You will give the team the ability to create infrastructure on demand, ensuring scalability and consistency.
- Execution: Manage a variety of Kanban tasks via Linear, ranging from improving observability to handling GitHub policy requests, release engineering, and access management.
Requirements
- Experience: You have 5+ years Platform Engineering or DevOps, with a focus on modern, cloud-native technologies.
- Technical Fluency: You are an expert in HCL and Terraform Modules, and you have deep experience administering Kubernetes clusters.
- Pipeline Mastery: You have extensive "must-have" experience with GitHub Pipelines and know how to optimize them for speed and security.
- Cloud Proficiency: You have hands-on experience managing and deploying in public clouds, specifically AWS or GCP.
- Modern Tech Mindset: You thrive in environments that reject legacy tech. You want to work with a modern stack where you can pick your own hardware and solve a variety of problems, from pipelines to internal services.
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Hard Skills & Tools
TerraformKubernetesHCLGitHub CIInfrastructure as CodeCloud-native technologiesMulti-cloud infrastructureCI/CDAutomationObservability
Soft Skills
Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationAdaptabilityCritical thinking