e*star provides trading solutions for the European energy markets and has more than 15 years of experience in this field. The European energy sector is currently undergoing a historic transformation due to the energy transition and digitalization. As experts in this field, e*star is working on shaping and developing the European energy market of the future - together with our customers.

We’re growing our team! Our Platform Engineers help design, implement, and evolve our cloud-native trading platform for our applications, and we need passionate individuals to help that mission. Working closely with software and operations teams, you’ll help create performance-oriented infrastructure, automation, and workflows that accelerate delivery, improve reliability and enable innovation across the organization.

Tasks

• You will design and build scalable platform infrastructure using modern cloud technologies and infrastructure-as-code practices, mainly focused on Terraform coding for AWS and hosted co-located servers.
• Contribute to the expansion and establishment of our platform.
• Be an autonomous self-starter working within a small Platform Engineering team and have a high capacity to learn new technologies, evaluate, and implement them.
• Be part of an agile team, which introduce and operate practices such as for the containerization in our Kubernetes cluster to run live applications and strive to create solutions that are reusable, scalable and driven by automation.
• Implement security best practices and compliance measures as part of platform design and delivery.
• Maintain and monitor platform health—ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability across environments.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and provide support/knowledge sharing to internal users.
• Key Responsibilities: Design, build and evolve a reliable and high-performance cloud platform infrastructure.

Requirements

• Background: You have a degree in the field of (business) information technology or comparable courses of study or trainings.
• Infrastructure as code: You have extensive experience with infrastructure automation and IaC tools (e.g., Terraform) or a strong willingness to deepen your skills in these areas.
• Version control: You are familiar with Git-based processes and "Git Ops".
• Containerization: Knowledge in containerization and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm) is highly beneficial.
• Cloud-Native: Knowledge of AWS (or other cloud providers) is an advantage.
• Identity and Access Management: Knowledge in Linux, Active Directory, scripting languages such as PowerShell, web-based authentication flows such as OAuth or SAML, and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Splunk, etc. are desirable.
• Mindset: You possess a self-driven mindset with a passion for automation, scalability, and continuous improvement.
• Let's talk: You have very good knowledge of English – comparable to English level B2 or higher.

Benefits

• Enjoy a professional environment within a relaxed, friendly corporate culture
• Mobile working? Night owl or early bird? A classic consultant lifestyle with 5 days on site is not for you? With us you will find enough space for an optimal work-life balance
• Stay healthy – our company supports you with a fixed health budget for individual services

We are a home for tech enthusiasts and doers. Origin, age, preferences - it doesn't matter to us. What counts is that we burn for the common cause.

We are already looking forward to getting to know you!

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