Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

Ratepay is looking to hire TWO Platform Engineers to add value to our constantly evolving technology team during one of the most exciting parts of our tech roadmap!
As a Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in building and maintaining a robust, scalable, and efficient software platform, and someone who brings expertise in infrastructure design, automation, cloud computing, scalability, security, and troubleshooting to ensure the smooth operation of our applications and services.
  
Ratepay has begun a major cloud migration which is one of our largest, most complex and most exciting technology projects to date, and the good news is that you’ll be part of this from an early stage! It’s a major initiative involving migrating over 100 micro-services and a large number of databases from our on-prem datacentre to AWS. After this, another major project is developing a machine learning platform for training anti-fraud and risk models. Needless to say, it’s a very exciting time to join us!

The role and your key contributions 

• Automation: You’ll be well-versed in streamlining the software development lifecycle through automation and collaboration using tools such as Ansible and involvement with CI/CD pipelines 

• Cloud & virtualization: You’ll offer expertise in AWS  and Virtualisation and optimize our infrastructure for cost-efficiency, scalability, security and high availability, managing mainly cloud but also some on-prem areas. 

• Scalability: Our applications will grow and have to handle increased traffic, so you’ll ensure our infrastructure can handle the load. Setting up auto-scaling mechanisms, performance monitoring, and load balancing to maintain a responsive and performant system is part of the daily work.

• Security: You will play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Configuring firewalls, setting up secure access controls, VPC's, Secrets Management and so on.  

• Troubleshooting: When issues arise with our application infrastructure you will investigate, diagnose and implement solutions to minimize downtime and disruptions.

• Support SW engineering teams to migrate and operate applications in the cloud
• Documenting platform architecture and processes
• Evaluating and integrating new technologies and tools to improve the platform

Essential skills

• AWS  - our main infra’ platform
• Terraform  - to deploy our infrastructure as code
• Ansible (OR SIMILAR) - config management and automation 
• Linux/On-Prem exposure  - We still have Linux VMs we have to maintain
• Networking - to understand communication between different infra’ areas 
• GIT / CI/CD - All changes should be deployed via CI/CD pipelines

Bonus skills

• JIRA/Confluence/Bitbucket - for daily work in our agile environment.
• VMWare - the base infrastructure of our legacy platform.

• We offer a modern technical environment with new technologies e.g. AWS Fargate, AWS SageMaker and many more.
• Take over a leading role as a subject matter expert in our cloud journey. Also the role of Team Lead is an option to take in the future 
• AWS training is part of our usual training package. Besides this, individual training can be agreed as part of our personal development process.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working options to balance work and family life
• Surrounded by entrepreneurial people with plenty of room for creativity and new ideas
• A stable working environment (we are part of the Nexi Group - one of the biggest financial groups in Europe)
• Room for personal growth and professional development
• Trustful interaction in a welcoming team with flat hierarchies
• A highly diverse and culturally ambitious business with 40+ nationalities
• A challenging job in a rapidly growing industry
• The opportunity to work within a fast-moving industry leader combining modern technology and standards

Our benefits 

• Company and team events, knowledge exchange and the opportunity to contribute your ideas
• Generous private pension scheme - Ratepay matches 100% of your contribution up to 100 Euros per month
• The chance to get involved in social projects as part of our sustainability initiative
• Become a digital nomad: Work with Ratepay from any country within the EU for up to 3 months per year
• Annual BVG allowance to supplement the cost of public transport in Berlin
• Equipment support allowance
• Seasonal vaccinations, health checks and eye exams
• Self-care days
• 28 days vacation
• Employee Bereavement plan
• Social Friday, where employees can take a half day off to contribute to a community initiative
• Access to a corporate benefits platform where employees can get great discounts and offers for a range of online shops and activities
• Free language learning through Babbel as well as group live classes for those who want to improve their English or German
• access to learning platforms like Udemy for teams can attend conferences and, if included in their P&D goals, can attend additional training sessions.

We value our diversity and welcome everyone to our team, regardless of ethnic and social background, religious beliefs, worldview, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental limitations, age, marital status, educational background and nationality.
With over 250 employees and 40+ different nationalities, we take our values seriously. These include; ownership, growth, integrity, collaboration, customer centricity and inclusion (4/6 of our C-Level Board members are female).