Senior System Engineer

About the role

As part of our continued growth, Neo Group is recruiting on behalf of one of our local partners, leveraging our network of 1,400 talented professionals across 10+ countries. Together, we are committed to delivering innovative, data-driven solutions that empower our clients and foster professional growth within a dynamic and collaborative workplace.

We are on the lookout for a Senior System Engineer to join our Engineering Team.

Unlock your full potential as a Senior System Engineer. In this senior, hands-on role, you will help move our partner's Infrastructure & Operations toward a platform engineering model, building reusable, self-service infrastructure capabilities for databases, messaging, secrets, DNS, compute, monitoring and application environments.

You won't just keep systems running; you will automate and standardize infrastructure workflows, develop internal tooling and APIs, and improve how Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking and observability work together. If you have deep Linux and Kubernetes experience, think in reusable systems rather than one-off scripts, and enjoy solving complex production issues, we would love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering & Transformation: Help evolve Infrastructure & Operations toward a platform engineering model.
• Workflow Automation & Standardization: Standardize and automate infrastructure workflows and reduce manual provisioning.
• Core Capabilities & Provisioning: Build reusable infrastructure capabilities for databases, messaging, secrets, DNS, compute, monitoring, and application environments.
• Internal Tooling & Lifecycle Management: Develop internal tooling, APIs, and declarative workflows for infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Ecosystem & Tooling Integration: Improve integration between Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, secrets management, databases, and observability systems.
• Architectural & Technical Design: Participate in architecture and technical design of platform and infrastructure services.
• Reliability & Performance Engineering: Improve reliability, scalability, and operational simplicity of production infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting & Incident Investigation: Investigate complex infrastructure and production issues across Linux, networking, applications, and distributed systems.
• Observability & Diagnostics: Improve observability, diagnostics, and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Development, DevOps, SRE, DBA, Security, and Infrastructure units.
• Documentation & Best Practices: Standardize common infrastructure solutions and document how they should be implemented and used.
• Technology Innovation & Developer Experience: Evaluate and introduce technologies that improve developer experience and infrastructure efficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Production Engineering or similar roles.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of production infrastructure, networking and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, using Terraform, Ansible or similar tools.
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation workflows.
• Programming or strong scripting skills in Python, Go, Java, Bash or similar.
• Experience with monitoring and observability systems.
• Understanding of secrets management and secure infrastructure access patterns.
• Experience integrating infrastructure systems through APIs.
• Ability to design reusable infrastructure solutions instead of one-off automation.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to troubleshoot complex cross-system issues.
• Ability and willingness to learn new infrastructure and platform technologies.

Nice to Have

• Experience with GitOps approaches and tools.
• Experience with Crossplane, Kubernetes operators or controllers.
• Experience with Vault or similar secrets management platforms.
• Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis or ClickHouse.
• Experience with Proxmox, VMware or public cloud platforms.
• Experience developing internal infrastructure tools, APIs or self-service capabilities.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical thinking and technical curiosity.
• Ownership and responsibility.
• Pragmatic approach to automation and engineering.
• Ability to work independently on ambiguous technical problems.
• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Willingness to remain hands-on and share technical knowledge.

Benefits

• Hybrid work model.
• Flexible working schedule.
• Interesting product.
• Learning opportunities.
• Career growth prospects.