Senior System Engineer

Mindtech is on the lookout for a Senior System Engineer to join our Engineering Team.

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.

• 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.

• 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.