Platform Engineer – Cyprus, Greece or Remote

The role:

As our new Platform Engineer, you will join a team who strive to push cloud services to the maximum limit every day using cutting-edge technologies. If you are a self-motivated professional who embraces DevOps culture, has experience with AWS services and technologies and is passionate about learning, automating, innovating and working in a highly collaborative environment, we'd like to hear from you!

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Initiate and actively drive the adoption of good patterns, structures and use of technologies for development and operations
• Investigate and identify practices and work that can benefit from automation 
• Monitor and suggest improvements to the existing CI/CD process to increase speed, safety and reliability
• Implement and coordinate implementation with the parties involved
• Develop and maintain 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
• Work with our Security team to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities and ensure that the security of our environments are being scrutinised as appropriate for their specific use case.
• Offer services related to the above tasks and projects to any of the Companies of the Group as instructed by the Line Manager

Main requirements:

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline
• E 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  
• Docker & Kubernetes experience 
• Commitment to continuous improvement, with a focus on observability, modern application architecture styles, blue-green / canary deployments, CI/CD pipeline management 
• Ability to self-motivate, study, and stay on-top of emerging technologies and trends, while meeting business deadlines 
• Experience with the following tools will be considered as advantage: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Kafka, New Relic

Benefit from:

• Attractive remuneration package plus performance-based reward

• Food allowance

• Intellectually stimulating work environment
• Continuous personal development and international training opportunities

Type of employment: Full time

Location: Cyprus, Greece or Remote

Please visit our website www.xm.com/careers to submit your online application for this position.

All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality!