Senior Platform Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform)

Altech Group is partnering with a leading, high-growth European retail company to find a Senior Platform/Site Reliability Engineer. Operating at significant scale, our client builds and runs modern cloud-native commerce platforms powering major digital retail experiences across Europe.

You will join a high-performing infrastructure team responsible for the reliability, scalability, and automation of global AWS environments. If you enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, empowering development teams, and working with modern Infrastructure as Code in an international, English-first tech hub in Hamburg, this role is for you.

What You’ll Be Doing

AWS & Infrastructure as Code: Architect, maintain, and evolve global AWS cloud infrastructure strictly using Terraform and Terragrunt.

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration: Take ownership of core Kubernetes platform components, including ingress, VPC networking, auto-scaling strategies, and secrets management.

Observability & Site Reliability: Design, build, and optimize monitoring, alerting, and centralized logging pipelines utilizing Datadog, OpenSearch, and Fluentd.

Developer Enablement: Act as an internal technical consultant to product and application engineering teams, streamlining microservice deployments and CI/CD workflows via GitLab CI.

Production Ownership: Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 high availability, resilience, and rapid incident resolution.

What We’re Looking For

Experience: 5+ years of dedicated Platform Engineering, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure experience in high-traffic production environments.

AWS & IaC Mastery: Deep hands-on expertise with AWS architecture and managing complex infrastructure programmatically with Terraform and Terragrunt.

Kubernetes at Scale: Proven operational experience running, troubleshooting, and scaling production Docker and Kubernetes clusters.

Software Engineering Mindset: Basic-to-intermediate proficiency in Go (Golang) for writing internal tooling, automation scripts, and debugging platform components.

Location & Eligibility: Must currently reside in Germany with full eligibility to live and work in Germany, and be based in Hamburg or willing to relocate to Hamburg for a 3-day/week hybrid schedule.

What’s on Offer

Competitive salary package up to €90,000 per year.

Modern hybrid working model (3 days per week in a central Hamburg office).

100% English-speaking engineering culture with international colleagues.

High-impact role working with a modern cloud-native stack at massive e-commerce scale.

How to Apply Interested in learning more? Apply directly with your CV or reach out to Jan Perovic at jan@altechgroup.co.uk for a confidential discussion about the role and the company.