Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities – these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we’re always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines employment with enjoyment.
Job DescriptionProject – the aim you’ll have
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with strong DevOps experience, combining deep operational expertise with a development background. You are comfortable working at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and application development, and you enjoy enabling other teams to move faster through well designed platforms and abstractions.You bring both a builder and operator mindset: you design scalable systems, automate everything possible, and take ownership of platform reliability in production.
Position – how you’ll contribute
- Build and maintain core platform components (SSO, Access Management, clusters, networking, CI/CD, observability)
- Own Terraform modules, baseline configurations, and guardrails for distributed teams
- Design and evolve platform “golden paths” — secure defaults, templates, and standards
- Maintain platform IaC (Terraform, modules, state design, multi-account governance)
- Integrate with team-owned CDK stacks through stable platform contracts
- Lead evolution of platform abstraction layers and service catalogs
- Design and manage multi-account AWS landing zone (Orgs, SCPs, permissions boundaries)
- Own developer onboarding patterns (IAM SSO access, automation, pipelines)
- Build safe cross-account deployment workflows (GitHub OIDC, least privilege)
- Design and operate ECS and EKS clusters used by hundreds of services
- Establish best practices for container execution, networking, autoscaling
- Manage central networking components (VPC, TGW, Route53).
- Ensure secure east–west communication between workloads in different accounts
- Provide self-service tools and templates for teams (pipelines, service definitions, actions)
- Abstract platform complexity to enable fast and safe deployments for all teams
- Own documentation, workshops, patterns, and architectural guidance
- Operate and evolve platform-wide logging, metrics, and tracing systems
- Ensure operational standards for platform components
Expectations – the experience you need
- Strong experience as a Platform Engineer/DevOps Engineer operating production systems at scale
- Proven +4 years hands-on expertise with AWS, especially multi-account environments and organizational governance
- Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform (modules, state management, guardrails)
- Solid experience running and operating EKS and/or ECS in production
- Strong background in CI/CD, GitHub-based workflows, and secure deployment patterns (OIDC, least privilege)
- Experience designing developer platforms and internal tooling for self-service and standardization
- Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, SCPs, permissions boundaries, and secure networking
- Operational excellence mindset: monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs, and incident handling
- In addition to infrastructure and operations, you have hands-on development experience, allowing you to collaborate closely with application teams and design pragmatic platform contracts: Professional experience developing services in one or more of:
- Java / Kotlin (Spring Boot)
- Node.js / TypeScript - Familiarity with modern API design, service runtime concerns, and container-based workloads
- Ability to read, debug, and contribute to application code when needed
Our offer – professional development, personal growth:
- Flexible employment and remote work
- International projects with leading global clients
- International business trips
- Non-corporate atmosphere
- Language classes
- Internal & external training
- Private healthcare and insurance
- Multisport card
- Well-being initiatives
What We Do
Software Mind is a global digital transformation partner with operations throughout Europe, the US and LATAM. Driven by tech and empowered by people, we provide companies with software engineers and autonomous, cross-functional development teams who manage software life cycles from ideation to release and beyond. For over 20 years we’ve been enriching organizations with the talent they need to boost scalability, drive dynamic growth and bring disruptive ideas to life. Our top-notch engineering teams combine ownership with leading technologies, including cloud, AI, data science and embedded software to accelerate digital transformations and boost software delivery. A culture, driven by trust, that embraces openness, craves more and acts with respect enables our experts to create evolutive solutions that support scale-ups, unicorns and enterprise-level companies around the world.
