Job description
Senior Platform/ DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)
Full-time · Remote
Stott and May are excited to be working with Innovative software business who are 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.
Your mission
We are looking for a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to join our existing Platform team. They run a modern AWS + Kubernetes platform, but we also integrate with traditional / on-prem infrastructure.
You will help design, build and operate the core platform used by our product teams: Kubernetes clusters, networking, observability, GitOps, and infrastructure as code. Working closely with other platform engineers and the Lead DevOps Engineer, owning specific areas and driving improvements end-to-end.
In addition, you'll be responsible for the following task:
Platform engineering
Collaboration
Experience:
Nice to have:
What’s on offer
A modern environment with flat hierarchies. Colleagues very often highlight our great spirit to achieve Their goals. The company is a place to be yourself, aim high, taking care of each other and growing without limits. Additionally, They offer following benefits:
Full-time · Remote
Stott and May are excited to be working with Innovative software business who are 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.
Your mission
We are looking for a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to join our existing Platform team. They run a modern AWS + Kubernetes platform, but we also integrate with traditional / on-prem infrastructure.
You will help design, build and operate the core platform used by our product teams: Kubernetes clusters, networking, observability, GitOps, and infrastructure as code. Working closely with other platform engineers and the Lead DevOps Engineer, owning specific areas and driving improvements end-to-end.
In addition, you'll be responsible for the following task:
Platform engineering
- Design, build and operate our AWS- and Kubernetes-based platform.
- Own one or more areas (e.g. Kubernetes, observability, networking, IaC) and act as the go-to person for those topics in the team.
- Operate production AWS environments (multi-account, multi-environment).
- Operate Kubernetes clusters (upgrades, capacity, reliability, security).
- Design and maintain Argo CD–based GitOps workflows (multi-cluster, multi-env).
- Contribute to CI/CD patterns and deployment strategies together with the team.
- Evolve and operate our observability stack:
- Metrics: Prometheus, Thanos
- Logs: Grafana Loki
- Traces: Grafana Tempo
- Instrumentation: OpenTelemetry
- Help define SLOs, dashboards and alerting that are actually useful for teams.
- Work on Kubernetes networking, Ingress controllers and traffic routing.
- Contribute to designs using Envoy (or Envoy-based components), API gateways and SD-VPN solutions.
- Build and maintain Terraform modules and state layouts for AWS, Kubernetes and related infrastructure.
- Help migrate existing/manual infrastructure to Terraform with minimal disruption.
- (Bonus) Use Crossplane where it makes sense for Kubernetes-driven provisioning.
- Support connectivity and integration between cloud workloads and on-prem systems.
- Work as part of the existing Platform team, participate in design reviews, incident reviews and on-call.
- Support product teams as internal customers by providing clear platform interfaces, documentation and examples.
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure / operations / platform / DevOps roles.
- Strong experience with AWS in production:
- Multi-account setups (e.g. separation of dev / test / prod).
- Networking (VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancers).
- Landing Zones
- IAM and security best practices.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes in production:
- Operating clusters (EKS or similar).
- Workloads, deployments, autoscaling, upgrades and cluster lifecycle.
- Solid observability experience with at least several of:
- Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana.
- Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo or similar logging/tracing systems.
- OpenTelemetry for metrics/logs/traces instrumentation and pipelines.
- Solid networking knowledge:
- TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, routing, VPNs, firewalls, load balancing.
- Experience with Envoy (directly or via service mesh / API gateway), Ingress controllers and API gateways.
- Experience with SD-VPN solutions (e.g. AWS VPN, Tailscale or similar).
- Strong experience with Terraform and Terragrun:
- Modular design, state management, remote backends.
- Managing AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure as code at team or org scale.
- Hands-on experience with Argo CD and GitOps principles:
- Application structure, app-of-apps patterns, promotion across environments, RBAC and ABAC.
- Experience with traditional/on-prem infrastructure (VMs, networks, VPNs, storage, legacy systems) and connecting it to cloud environments.
- Comfortable working in a remote-first environment in European time zones (good written communication, async collaboration).
- Experience with Crossplane in production.
- Experience in a Platform/Enablement team serving multiple product teams..
- Experience with Argo Workflows or similar workflow/orchestration tools.
- Experience with AWS Control Tower and Account Factory
- German language skills (B2)
A modern environment with flat hierarchies. Colleagues very often highlight our great spirit to achieve Their goals. The company is a place to be yourself, aim high, taking care of each other and growing without limits. Additionally, They offer following benefits:
- Modern hardware and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
- Besides our 100% remote work possibility, we offer an office in Hamburg (Hammerbrook) and also co-working spaces all over Europe, for a more personal collaboration
- Space and budget for personal growth
- Flexible working hours
- 30 days vacation
- Coffee, tea and water for free in our office
- JobRad-Leasing
- Events for employees to celebrate our achieved goals and great team-spirit
- Community of Practice and Knowledge Nuggets for improving your skills
