Senior Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer

The Platform team is responsible for developing and maintaining the infrastructure and systems that enable a company's products and services.

The goal of the Platform team is to provide software as the products, tools, services, and frameworks to enable Product teams to focus on customer needs instead of tooling. We work closely with the Product teams to increase their productivity and speed up software delivery.

Overall, a platform engineering team plays a critical role in ensuring a company's technology infrastructure is reliable and scalable.

The Platform team consists of 37 people including 6 Team Leaders and 4 Engineering Managers. The team is organized in a way to efficiently addresses Stakeholders needs.

What are the challenges in the team?

• The complexity of the Docplanner organization: Docplanner is a complex organization with multiple teams working on various products and services. One of the main challenges for the platform engineering team is to understand and integrate the diverse technology stacks used by different teams.
• Scalability and reliability of systems: As Docplanner grows and expands, the demand for the technology infrastructure also increases. The platform engineering team must ensure that the systems are designed to handle high traffic, are scalable, and secure

Who will you work closely with?

You will work closely with Product Teams to understand their technical requirements and provide them with the necessary tools, services, and infrastructure to support their development efforts. Your insights and expertise will contribute to enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of their workflows.

How would you be impacting our mission?

• Development, monitoring, and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters on several continents.
• CI / CD development and maintenance.
• Make sure that all of our services are written in a way that makes them highly available.
• Fixing urgent issues and optimizing performance.
• Support other team members in their daily work.

Requirements

What will help you thrive?

• Vast experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (must-have).
• You know why and how to use Terraform and popular CI/CD tools.
• You know about building scalable and secure production HA environments using AWS.
• You are not afraid of developing tools or scripts in Bash or GO to automate work.
• You can communicate in English (both spoken and written - min. B2 level).
• Growth mindset: nobody ticks all those boxes above, but willingness to learn is strongly valued here.