Senior Platform Engineer | Informatiker (m/w/d)
competitionline Verlags GmbH
Job Summary
As a Senior Platform Engineer at this Berlin-based media-tech company, you will play a pivotal role in managing and evolving a sophisticated hybrid infrastructure. You will balance the use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managed services with high-performance bare-metal servers, ensuring optimal cost-efficiency and system performance. Your day-to-day responsibilities include automating infrastructure via Terraform and Ansible, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring system stability across the entire hybrid stack. You will be a key contributor to the architecture board, using an RFC process to shape the company's technological direction. This role is ideal for an engineer who values sustainable, 'no-over-engineering' solutions and wants to work closely with product and data intelligence teams. The position offers significant autonomy, the chance to influence architectural decisions, and a collaborative environment that prioritizes deep technical understanding over fleeting industry trends.
Required Skills
Education
Not specified
Experience
- Several years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Deep expertise in the Linux ecosystem beyond cloud abstraction layers.
- Proven experience managing Infrastructure-as-Code tools in production environments.
- Practical experience operating public cloud resources, preferably GCP.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline operations.
- Experience in architectural decision-making and technical evaluation.
Languages
Additional
- Must be able to work in Berlin (hybrid office culture). No specific work permit or security clearance mentioned.