Platform Engineer (m/f/d)
Description
About the job
At Sofico, we power the automotive finance, leasing, and fleet mobility industry with mission-critical software solutions running for top-tier enterprise clients worldwide.
We're shaping the future of mobility, and we're doing it together. Our software, Miles, helps leasing, fleet, and mobility providers around the world manage their operations through one powerful, integrated platform. As our customers continue to grow and evolve, ensuring exceptional performance, scalability, and reliability becomes increasingly critical.
Behind every successful deployment is a team of passionate experts committed to delivering high-quality software and outstanding customer experiences. We foster a collaborative, international environment where innovation, ownership, and continuous learning are at the heart of everything we do.
What You'll Do
As a Platform Engineer at Sofico, you’ll directly contribute to modernizing critical infrastructure, scaling a cloud-first platform, and enabling seamless experiences for top-tier automotive and mobility customers worldwide.
You’ll join one of our Platform Operations Teams, 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 responsibilities include:
- Setting up and managing scalable infrastructure (e.g. VM’s, Kubernetes, 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.
What You Bring
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 if you recognize yourself in most of these:
- Proven experience with at least one cloud provider, preferable Azure but others providers can be useful as well (AWS, OCI, …).
Azure is our main stack, so proven Azure knowledge is a great advantage. - Experience in setting up infrastructure (e.g. VM’s, Kubernetes, clusters, Spoke’s, peering, firewall, …).
- 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, any other language is a plus.
What's in it for you ...
- Competitive Compensation & Benefits: Attractive salary package complemented by meal vouchers, hospitalisation insurance, and group insurance, car or mobility budget.
- Flexible Way of Working: Hybrid working model and flexible hours, giving you the autonomy to organize your workday in a way that suits you best.
- Modern Workplace: Work from a contemporary co-working space designed to foster collaboration, comfort, and productivity.
- Structured Onboarding & Coaching: 6-month onboarding track with a dedicated job coach to get you up to speed.
- Collaborative Company Culture: Regular opportunities to connect with colleagues through informal drinks, team activities, and company-wide events that strengthen relationships beyond the workplace.
Ready to build the secure and deterministic capabilities behind the next generation of mobility software? Join SOFICO
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