Platform Engineer

Das ist der Job

Define and operate infrastructure using Terraform — with clean modules, sensible standards, and automated validation.

Darum lohnt es sich

Establish and refine observability and reliability practices (SLOs/SLIs, monitoring, alerting, postmortems, runbooks) that scale with the team.

AWS (core services; compute, networking, IAM, logging/monitoring, managed data services) GitHub (Actions, CI/CD workflows, checks, release automation) Containers & orchestration (e.g., ECS/Fargate and/or Kubernetes depending on evolution) Observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing; e.g., Grafana/Prometheus/Opentelemetry and friends) Security tooling (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, policy as code) ✅ What We’re Looking For Strong experience as a Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer in product teams shipping to production.

Remote (Europe) | Full-time | Experienced Hires Zalion is on a mission to eliminate repetitive procurement work through agentic AI. We’re building autonomous agents that operate deep within enterprise procurement — navigating messy data, legacy systems, and complex workflows to deliver real impact.

Join us early and help define how enterprise AI is done right. 🚀 What You’ll be responsible for You will: Own our platform foundations end-to-end — from AWS architecture and IaC to CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness.

Build and evolve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM) optimized for reliability and cost. Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines on GitHub that are fast, repeatable, and developer-friendly (clear feedback loops, safe deploys, strong defaults).

Improve developer experience through golden paths: templates, self-service environments, paved roads for deployments, and internal tooling that removes friction. Drive availability, scalability, and resilience : deployment strategies, rollbacks, capacity planning, DR thinking, and performance tuning.

Implement pragmatic security-by-default : least privilege IAM, secrets management, secure supply chain, and guardrails that enable speed without compromising safety. Partner closely with product engineering to reduce operational load and keep delivery velocity high as Zalion grows.

Deep practical knowledge of AWS : networking, IAM, security controls, and designing for failure. Hands-on expertise with Terraform (not just “running apply”): modules, state strategy, DRY patterns, environment separation, and automated reviews.

Solid CI/CD engineering experience with GitHub : pipeline design, artifact/versioning, deployment safety, and fast feedback loops. A strong mindset for reliability and operability : you think in failure modes, automation, and measurable outcomes (SLOs). Security awareness and discipline: you build guardrails that make the secure path the easy path.

A builder mindset : you ship improvements, measure impact (lead time, deploy frequency, MTTR), and iterate. Comfort with ambiguity and ownership : you proactively identify platform bottlenecks and fix them without waiting for perfect specs. 4+ years experience in relevant roles (startup/scale-up experience is a plus).

Build the platform behind agentic AI systems that run in real enterprise environments Immediate impact — your work accelerates every engineer and every release Competitive salary + meaningful equity High-end equipment We value clarity and honesty. If something is messy, we’ll say so — and then we’ll fix it.

We want an architect who enjoys building platforms that are secure, observable, and boring-in-production (in the best way). Links to things you’ve built (GitHub, blog posts, talks, etc.) 2–3 sentences on why this role and Zalion interest you