Senior Platform Engineer

Job Description

At our company, we aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. We're at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. Join us in using the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world.

Responsibilities

• Participate in defining the standards and architecture patterns predominantly for data quality and observability platform.
• Author, review, and maintain Terraform modules and state management for multi-account/multi-environment deployments.
• Implement reusable and repeatable environment provisioning and configuration.
• Create and maintain clear documentation: platform design, Infrastructure as Code patterns, operational runbooks, best practices regarding coding, security, and compliance.
• Develop, verify, test, document, amend, and refactor CI/CD pipelines and the platform configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams.
• Integrate platform with data governance tooling (catalogs, lineage, access controls).
• Utilize system life cycle working practices for platform components delivery. Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcomes.
• Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas. Participate in the evaluation of alternative solutions and approaches to the current architecture and the trade-offs in cost, performance, and scalability.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.
• Participate in planning, execution, and delivery of the platform ensuring alignment with both functional, product, and company goals.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any Technology stream.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience working with Python, SQL and databases, Analytics platforms, DevOps tools, and REST API.
• Very good Cloud knowledge, ideally AWS certified with a good understanding of AWS core services like EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC networking, Security Groups, subnets, IAM roles/policies, Route 53, Transit Gateways, Load Balancing, Lambda, KMS.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps tools and practices (like GitHub, GitHub Actions) for code versioning and deployment.
• Understanding modern product development principles – Agile, test-driven development, UX, design thinking.
• Knowledge of development practices such as infrastructure observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD, containerization.

Preferred

• Proficiency with other programming languages (Scala, R, Java).
• Experience with Databricks, Grafana, and Data Quality tools.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary & incentive pay
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system and referral scheme
• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax-free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner

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Required Skills:

CI/CD, Computer Science, Containerization, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integrations, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design, Design Applications, GitHub, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Python (Programming Language), Requirements Analysis, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Systematic Problem Solving, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

1st - Day

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

05/1/2026

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