Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure

About Us & The Mission Join us to protect the world's communities from financial crime. Our real-time fraud prevention solutions protect more than 100 billion payment transactions per year across the globe. To address the challenges of an evolving technological ecosystem and growing market demands, we are **building a brand-new, dedicated engineering team**. This is a rare opportunity to join at the foundation: you will help shape the future of our technology stack, evaluate architectural alternatives, and directly inform key technical decisions in close collaboration with technical leadership. If you thrive in an environment where your voice directly impacts architecture, technology choices, and long-term product direction, this is the place for you. Role & Opportunity To support our evolving architecture, we are building a cloud-ready platform foundation. As our dedicated Platform Engineer in this new team, you will have greenfield influence over our infrastructure choices: container orchestration, CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and end-to-end observability. You will partner closely with systems engineers and leadership to define how our high-performance backend is packaged, tested, deployed, and operated across cloud and hybrid environments. What you will work on - Architect and manage Kubernetes workload topologies (Deployments, StatefulSets, PersistentVolumes, Helm charts) across cloud (AWS / EKS) and on-premises environments. - Build automated CI/CD pipelines from the ground up for building, testing, linting, and packaging compiled Rust and C++ artefacts. - Define and manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or OpenTofu) for reliable, reproducible cloud infrastructure. - Design and deploy modern observability pipelines based on OpenTelemetry (metrics, distributed traces, structured logs) and visualization backends (Prometheus, Grafana). - Configure and manage API Gateway layers for secure external routing, TLS termination, and traffic management. - Champion infrastructure security best practices: network segmentation, secret management, and encryption at rest and in transit. - Provide strategic infrastructure input to technical leadership as the platform scales. Requirements - Degree in computer science, DevOps, or equivalent practical experience. - Hands-on production experience with **Kubernetes** and **Helm**. - Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably **AWS** (EKS, IAM, VPC, S3). - Deep experience designing **CI/CD pipelines** and automated build/test workflows for compiled languages. - Experience deploying and operating **OpenTelemetry** pipelines and monitoring stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana). - Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar). - Solid Linux system administration and Docker container management skills. - Fluent spoken and written English. Nice to have - Experience running stateful, performance-critical workloads on Kubernetes. - Familiarity with API Gateway solutions and modern traffic management. - Understanding of security and compliance requirements in financial or regulated environments. - Exposure to build toolchains for compiled languages (Cargo, CMake). Key concepts Kubernetes / Helm AWS / EKS Terraform / OpenTofu CI/CD Automation OpenTelemetry Prometheus & Grafana Infrastructure as Code Platform Strategy We offer - A long-term position with excellent perspectives and high architectural impact - Being part of an international team of experienced professionals - Flexible working hours and hybrid working model (2 days from home) - Opportunity to define infrastructure and platform standards from the ground up - Direct collaboration with leadership in a flat, engineering-driven culture - A modern workplace with access to latest hardware in a relaxed atmosphere (former monastery near Koblenz) - Personal mentoring and continuous professional development - Regular team events and corporate benefits To apply Please send your application (cover letter, CV, degree or grade average, references, and your salary expectations) to **jobs@iris.de**.