Senior Platform Architect, AWS

🕒 February 12

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Skaylink

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501 - 1000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

Cloud Services • Cybersecurity • SaaS

Skaylink is a modern cloud services provider that focuses on supporting medium-sized and large enterprises on their entire cloud journey. With over 30 years of collective experience and a team of more than 550 cloud experts, Skaylink aims to deliver sustainable solutions tailored to the specific needs of its clients. The company fosters a unique working culture that emphasizes collaboration, personal development, and a strong team spirit, making it an attractive workplace for professionals in the tech industry.

📋 Description

• You design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available platform architectures on AWS, and define standards, reference architectures, and best practices. • You develop and operate core platform services such as networking, IAM, compute, storage, container, and serverless. • You drive automation consistently and develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) as well as self-service frameworks. • You design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, integrate security, compliance, and quality checks, and implement modern deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, Rolling). • You develop automation tools and platform components in Python, build APIs, CLI tools, and reusable libraries, and use AWS SDKs (boto3) efficiently. • You ensure the platform's reliability, scalability, and performance, and implement monitoring, observability, and automated incident and recovery processes.

🎯 Requirements

• You have several years of experience in architecting, developing, and optimizing AWS platforms. • You have solid knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, automation, and DevOps practices. • You are confident in building and operating platform services as well as CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies. • You have strong programming skills in Python and experience with AWS SDKs, APIs, and automation frameworks. • You understand monitoring, observability, and cloud operations as integral parts of a stable platform. • Ideally, you have experience with container technologies, serverless architectures, and relevant AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect – Professional). • Very good German and English skills, both written and spoken.

🏖️ Benefits

• Purpose – Apply your expertise (in projects at reputable companies such as BMW Group, Henkel, and KWS) • Flexibility – Find your balance (e.g., workation, flexible vacation options) • Development – Settle in and grow (e.g., Skaylink Campus, development discussions, regular employee surveys) • Rest – Recharge (e.g., 30 days vacation, days off on Dec 24 and 31, sabbatical) • Mobility – Get from A to B (e.g., BusinessBike, subsidy for the Deutschland-Ticket) • Equipment – The choice is yours (Apple/Windows, company mobile phone) • Support – Feel comfortable (e.g., employee referral program, corporate benefits, work glasses, 5 paid child-sick days per year) • Events – Get together and celebrate (e.g., summer and Christmas parties, team events, cross-company tech talks) • Togetherness – We are Skaylink!