Senior Platform & Release Engineer - Customer API Fabric
Kühne + Nagel International AG2 days ago
Tallinn, EstoniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end infrastructure-as-code and GitOps-based deployment configuration.
- Maintain and evolve Kubernetes deployments using Kubernetes, Argo CD, and Kustomize.
- Manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu, Terragrunt, EKS, IAM, KMS, and related AWS services.
- Operate platform services including RabbitMQ/AMQP, AWS MSK/Managed Kafka, HashiCorp Vault, and the ELK stack.
- Own secure application and infrastructure secrets management using SOPS with GPG/Age or equivalent technologies.
- Assess production risks and design safe rollout, validation, and rollback strategies.
- Diagnose issues across CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, and AWS while improving release processes and deployment automation.
- Maintain CI/build infrastructure and contribute to Go-based build tooling, Renovate automation, and engineering tooling.
- Strengthen observability, operational readiness, engineering guardrails, resilience, and disaster recovery practices.
- Document architecture and operational procedures and mentor engineers in platform, deployment, and production engineering practices.
Requirements
- Strong experience in platform engineering, production reliability, and release management, ideally with internal developer platforms or API platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Argo CD, Kustomize, Terraform/OpenTofu, Terragrunt, AWS, RabbitMQ/AMQP, AWS MSK, Vault, the ELK stack, and Renovate.
- Experience with secure secrets management using SOPS with GPG and/or Age, plus familiarity with GitLab CI/CD and Go-based tooling.
- Understanding of API gateways such as KrakenD, PKI, certificate management, and platform observability.
- Experience with multi-environment Kubernetes platforms, policy-as-code, deployment guardrails, disaster recovery, and resilience practices.
- Ability to simplify fragile deployment processes and design secure, reliable, and recoverable release workflows.
- Strong production engineering judgment and the ability to assess risks, challenge unsafe changes, and make evidence-based technical decisions.
- Ability to work autonomously, understand systems before changing them, balance automation with safeguards, and communicate technical trade-offs clearly.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model at Kuehne+Nagel’s IT Hub in Tallinn.
- Extensive health benefits.
- Continuous learning and career growth opportunities.
- Work-life balance and personal well-being support.
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About Kühne + Nagel International AG
Kuehne+Nagel is a Swiss-based global freight forwarder and contract logistics company that manages sea, air, and road shipments and end-to-end supply chains for businesses across industries. It sells logistics services and 4PL solutions, including warehousing, e-commerce fulfillment, and specialized healthcare and renewable-energy logistics, on a fee-for-service basis. Founded in 1890 and headquartered in Schindellegi, it is publicly listed in Switzerland (SMI index) and operates through a worldwide network.