Senior Platform Engineer to design, manage, and continuously improve the platform infrastructure that powers our critical applications and services. This role will focus on building resilient container-based architectures, optimizing DevOps pipelines with GitLab, and maintaining high-performance messaging, caching, monitoring, and virtualization systems. You will also manage Microsoft 365 and ensure seamless automated operations across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Container Architecture:
• Design and maintain scalable container orchestration solutions with Kubernetes for high-availability applications.
• Enforce container security and observability best practices.
• DevOps with GitLab:
• Lead the implementation and optimization of GitLab-based DevOps pipelines for multiple development teams.
• Automate builds, testing, deployments, and rollback strategies with a focus on reliability and speed.
• Maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and GitOps workflows.
• Caching & Messaging:
• Manage and optimize Redis deployments for performance and resilience.
• Operate and scale RabbitMQ message brokers for secure, distributed messaging across services.
• Monitoring, Observability & Logging:
• Implement end-to-end observability using Prometheus for metrics collection and Grafana for dashboards and alerts.
• Set up and manage ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging, analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure system-wide visibility and automated alerting for service-level objectives and incident response.
• Load Balancing & Networking:
• Design and manage high-availability load balancer solutions (e.g., NGINX, HAProxy).
• Ensure secure and efficient traffic routing and proxying across application environments.
• Virtualization with Proxmox:
• Operate and maintain Proxmox VE clusters, including VM provisioning, resource scaling, and backups.
• Integrate Proxmox infrastructure with storage and network services.
• Microsoft 365 Platform:
• Administering Microsoft 365 Premium (Teams,Exchange,OneDrive, Defender, Intune).
• Manage integration with Azure AD for access control and identity federation.
• Incident Response & Continuous Improvement:
• Participate in incident resolution efforts.
• Perform root cause analysis and drive long-term platform improvements and reliability.

Requirements:

Must-Have:

• 5+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.
• Hands-on experience with setting up Kubernetes containers and orchestration.
• Expert knowledge of GitLab CI/CD and DevOps automation.
• Experience with Redis, RabbitMQ, and distributed systems.
• Solid grasp of Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack for observability and monitoring.
• Proficient in load balancing, DNS, reverse proxies, and TLS.
• Experience managing Proxmox VE or similar hypervisor environments.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 platform services.