Platform Engineer

About the job

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll make sure our products run smoothly for customers worldwide. You’ll work on modern infrastructure challenges, while helping Sofico evolve into a global, scalable, cloud-first company.

Your responsibilities include:

• Setting up and managing scalable infrastructure (e.g. VM’s, Spoke’s, peering, firewall, …) in Azure,

  • Through automation using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps.

• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining infrastructure for global customers.

  • Zabbix, OpsGenie, Prometheus, Grafana, FluentBit & Loki

• Setting up and maintaining Site-2-Site IPSEC VPN tunnels between our infrastructure and our customers.

• Setting up and maintaining Cloudflare (WAF, tunnel, DNS, custom hostnames, …)

• Managing global firewall, networks ranges and availability.

• Supporting customers & other Sofico teams directly and providing technical consulting.

• Modernising legacy components into scalable, cloud-native solutions.

• Sharing knowledge within the team and across Sofico.

About the Team

• You’ll join our Platform Operations Team, part of Sofico’s global Platform organization. We’re a close-knit group of engineers spread across multiple time zones, who collaborate daily to build and maintain the backbone of Sofico’s solutions.

  The work can be challenging, but what makes it worth it is the bond we share: we support each other, share laughs along the way, and always have each other’s back.

Your interests and skills

We’re aiming high because we want the best, but what’s on your resume isn’t everything. You don’t need to tick every box, but should recognize yourself in most of these:

• Proven experience with at least one cloud provider (Azure, AWS, OCI, …).
  Azure is our main stack, so proven Azure knowledge is a great advantage.

• Proven experience with Linux systems (& commands).

• Experience with Firewall tool (e.g. Fortinet, Fortimanager, Forti analyser)

• Extended networking knowledge (DNS, Firewall, VDom, Adom, routing, Cloudflare…)

• Strong communicator, comfortable explaining infra topics to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Customer-oriented: able to jump on a call, ask the right questions, and solve problems.

• Analytical mindset with attention to detail.

• Curious, proactive, and eager to learn new technologies.

• A true team player who enjoys helping colleagues succeed.

• Fluent in English (B1-C1), any other language is a plus.

Nice to have:
Kubernetes, Helm, databases (Oracle and/or MS SQL), OCI, Data guard, Palo Alto, Terraform, Veeam, SFTP, AD, Entra, Ansible, Podman/Docker, JBoss, Postgres, Flux, Reverse Proxies, Kafka, CI pipelines, HVR, microservice deployments, advanced Kubernetes concepts like operators, experience in delivering software artifacts to customers. We work with Jira and Confluence, experience is a plus.

What We Offer

• A job full of challenges working in an agile environment where collaboration, experimentation, and continuous improvement are part of everyday life — giving you the space to make an impact from day one.
  A place in an international, multicultural company that doubles in size every 5 years.

• A flat, open company culture where your ideas matter.

• A six-month onboarding program with a personal coach, followed by ongoing training and certifications.

• Flexibility through hybrid work (3 days office, 2 days home).

• Competitive salary package with benefits. (Car depending on location)

• A modern office space, great coffee, and regular team events (after-work drinks, BBQs, family days, company weekends…).