Senior Platform Engineer

N-iX is a company with a Platform Engineering team responsible for internal core infrastructure products such as a centralized Kubernetes cluster and managed CI/CD solutions used across 30+ teams. The team focuses on scalability, resilience, observability, resource optimization, self-service, and developer experience, contributing to architecture and engineering practice improvements across the company.

• Strong understanding of core IaaS concepts such as compute, storage, networking, and identity management.
• Experience with IaaS cloud providers, particularly AWS (experience with Azure, GCP also considered).
• Expertise in Platform Engineering and/or DevOps principles, focusing on automation and reliability.
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills with a solution-oriented mindset.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD processes and best practices for safely deploying code.
• Strong AWS expertise; hands-on experience with Akamai or migrating from it to AWS is a huge advantage.
• Deep expertise in AWS CDK and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong experience with Grafana and New Relic for observability.
• Proficiency with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.

• Take ownership of the end-to-end operations of the products managed by your team.
• Keep your team's products up to date by leveraging a modern, state-of-the-art tech stack.
• Collaborate closely with an Engineering Manager and cross-functional tech teams to identify and solve critical problems.
• Influence architectural decisions, choose the right technologies, and develop infrastructure products that meet business needs.
• Lead key projects and initiatives, taking ownership of their successful execution.
• Define and advocate best practices for safe code deployment and develop tools to empower teams to adopt these practices.
• Lead and execute infrastructure migration projects:
  • Migration from Akamai to AWS;
  • Migration from New Relic to Grafana;
  • Migration from Terraform to AWS CDK (Infrastructure as Code).
• Resolve platform security tickets and ensure high standards of infrastructure protection.
• Build clear execution plans, align with cross-functional teams across multiple time zones, and share updates promptly.