Platform Engineer Team Lead

The Role:

As the Platform Engineer Team Lead , you will work alongside the department's Manager in coordinating the team’s daily operations while actively contributing to the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation processes.

This role combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, offering the opportunity to mentor team members, drive operational excellence, and help shape scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native environments.

If you are passionate about DevOps culture, cloud technologies, automation, and leading by example in a collaborative environment, we'd like to hear from you!

The main responsibilities of the position include:

• Develop and execute action plans to achieve agreed goals and performance indicators

• Recommend and actively promote improvements to DevOps practices, automation patterns, and tooling

• Identify automation opportunities and drive implementation initiatives within the Platform Engineering team

• Monitor and suggest improvements to the existing CI/CD process to increase speed, safety, and reliability

• Coordinate implementation activities within the team and assist in cross-team collaboration when required

• Develop, maintain, and enhance existing GitLab CI pipeline libraries

• Assist developers with setting up CI/CD for their projects and provide support for any issues that may arise

• Stay up to date with the latest tools and trends in the industry and share relevant insights with the wider team

• Ensure adherence to best practices across Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes environments and support continuous improvement initiatives

• Support knowledge-sharing sessions and educate Application Development Teams on platform standards, tools, and best practices

• Work closely with the Security team to remediate vulnerabilities and ensure platform compliance with security standards

• Set personal targets for team members and monitor performance

• Provide regular feedback, coaching, mentoring, and development support to team members

• Encourage collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team

• Help maintain a motivated, engaged, and high-performing team environment

Main requirements:

• BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline

• 7+ years’ experience within the following areas: Cloud (AWS), Release Pipeline Management, Windows Server Administration, Linux Administration, Certificate Management, PowerShell scripting, Bash/python scripting, Configuration Management and IAC (Ansible/Terraform), DNS, Networking

• Enterprise-level Kubernetes experience

• Solid Linux administration skills

• Strong leadership, mentoring, and people management skills

• Commitment to continuous improvement, with a focus on observability, modern application architecture styles, blue-green/canary deployments, and CI/CD pipeline management

• Ability to self-motivate, study, and stay on top of emerging technologies and trends while meeting business deadlines

• Excellent communication, organizational, and time management skills

• Strong attention to detail and cost awareness

• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments and deliver high-quality results within tight deadlines

• Experience with tools including: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MSK, New Relic

The following will be considered an advantage:

• Familiarity with database concepts

• Working experience with at least one cloud provider (preferably AWS)

• Experience with Apache Kafka configuration and troubleshooting

• Experience with ELK configuration and troubleshooting

• Experience mentoring or coaching technical teams

• Scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go, etc.)

Benefit from:

• Attractive remuneration package plus performance related reward

• Private health insurance

• Corporate pension fund

• Intellectually stimulating work environment

• Continuous personal development and international training opportunities

The Hiring Experience: What Awaits You

• Show Your Skills – Online Technical Challenge

• Let’s Connect – Intro Chat with Talent Acquisition

• Deep Dive – First Interview with Your Future Team

• Final Connection – Final Interview

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