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Zalion

Platform Engineer

Zalion

. Own platform foundations end-to-end, from AWS architecture and infrastructure as code to CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness .

Posted 9/15/2026full-timeMunich • GermanyMid-LevelSenior💰 €80,000 - €125,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in AWS architecture, Terraform, and CI/CD pipeline design, focusing on building secure, scalable infrastructure and enhancing developer experience. Proven ability to implement observability practices and drive operational excellence through automation and reliability strategies.

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AWS ArchitectureTerraform ExpertiseCI/CD Pipeline DesignObservability PracticesSecurity Awareness

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Hard Skills
AWSTerraformCI/CDGitHubNetworkingIAMSecurity ControlsDisaster RecoveryPerformance TuningAutomation
Soft Skills
Builder MindsetComfort With AmbiguityOwnership
Tools & Technologies
GitHub ActionsObservability ToolingSecurity ToolingContainers Orchestration
Industry Keywords
Platform EngineeringDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringStartup ExperienceScale-Up Experience

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own platform foundations end-to-end, from AWS architecture and infrastructure as code to CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness
  • Build and evolve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure covering networking, compute, storage, and IAM, optimized for reliability and cost
  • Design and maintain fast, repeatable, developer-friendly GitHub CI/CD pipelines with clear feedback loops, safe deployments, and strong defaults
  • Define and operate infrastructure using Terraform with clean modules, sensible standards, and automated validation
  • Improve developer experience through golden paths, templates, self-service environments, paved deployment roads, and internal tooling
  • Drive availability, scalability, and resilience through deployment strategies, rollbacks, capacity planning, disaster recovery thinking, and performance tuning
  • Implement security-by-default practices including least-privilege IAM, secrets management, secure supply chain, and enabling guardrails
  • Establish and refine observability and reliability practices including SLOs, SLIs, monitoring, alerting, postmortems, and runbooks
  • Partner with product engineering to reduce operational load and maintain delivery velocity as Zalion grows

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Strong experience as a Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineer in product teams shipping to production
  • Deep practical knowledge of AWS, including networking, IAM, security controls, and designing for failure
  • Hands-on expertise with Terraform, including modules, state strategy, DRY patterns, environment separation, and automated reviews
  • Solid CI/CD engineering experience with GitHub, including pipeline design, artifact/versioning, deployment safety, and fast feedback loops
  • Strong reliability and operability mindset, including failure modes, automation, and measurable outcomes such as SLOs
  • Security awareness and discipline, including building guardrails that make the secure path easy
  • Builder mindset with experience shipping improvements, measuring impact through lead time, deploy frequency, and MTTR, and iterating
  • Comfort with ambiguity and ownership, proactively identifying and fixing platform bottlenecks
  • 4+ years of experience in relevant roles
  • Startup or scale-up experience is a plus
  • Experience with AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD workflows, containers orchestration, observability tooling, and security tooling such as SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, and policy as code

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Meaningful equity
  • High-end equipment
  • Massive autonomy and zero bureaucracy
  • Immediate impact on engineers and releases
  • Modern stack with no legacy constraints