Platform Engineer

About the role

You will run and develop a large hosting platform spanning virtualization, storage and networking, acting as the technical escalation point and driving automation and reliability.

What you will do

• Operate and further develop the hosting platform, from virtualization through storage and networking to monitoring
• Serve as technical escalation point for platform support, finding root causes and preventing repeat issues
• Automate with Ansible and Git, and plan maintenance, upgrades and migrations
• Contribute to capacity and hardware planning for new hardware generations and locations
• Own a platform domain, make design decisions and document them transparently
• Collaborate with platform, support, development, network and security teams across global sites

What they look for

• At least five years operating or developing large-scale Linux and virtualization environments
• Strong Linux troubleshooting and performance skills plus hands-on experience with Proxmox or KVM
• Practical experience with Ansible and monitoring tools such as Zabbix or Prometheus and Grafana
• Self-motivated, proactive, with clear documentation habits and a willingness to share knowledge
• Very good German and English communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with ZFS or Ceph
• Networking fundamentals such as BGP, L3 routing, VLAN and Open vSwitch
• Git and CI experience plus scripting in Bash or Python
• Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, PowerDNS or hosting and cloud background