Junior Platform Engineer – North Macedonia

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Intro

We are looking for a Junior Platform Engineer to help keep our platform reliable, scalable, and efficient. You will work on CI/CD pipelines, monitor operational dashboards, support Kubernetes deployment tooling, and collaborate with development and automation teams to improve engineering workflows. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys problem-solving, automation, and learning from senior engineers.

This full-time hybrid role in Skopje, North Macedonia is available immediately.

Your Job

• You monitor dashboards and alerts to detect issues or performance problems, maintain documentation for platform changes and troubleshooting.
• You support senior engineers in incident triage and response.
• You maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure stable builds, tests, and deployments.
• You work with developers to integrate tests and quality checks, recommend and implement improvements to pipeline speed and reliability.
• You assist automation teams with workflow and pipeline tooling.
• You create and maintain Helm charts with proper versioning and best practices, review Helm merge requests and support safe deployments.
• You assist with Kubernetes configurations, rollouts, and resource optimization.
• You help development teams with configuration, deployment, and environment setup.
• You contribute to scripts and tools that improve automation and efficiency.
• You participate in cross-team efforts to improve engineering workflows.
• You follow operational, security, and coding standard, document best practices and internal processes.
• You join code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and learning sessions.

Your Profile

• You have basic knowledge of Linux, containers, and cloud-native concepts.
• You are familiar with GitLab CI and TeamCity.
• You have some exposure to Kubernetes and YAML.
• You have interest or experience in Helm, scripting, or automation.
• You can write simple scripts (Bash, Python, etc.).
• You have strong problem-solving and communication skills, as well as eagerness to learn.

Nice to Have Skills

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• Knowledge of Terraform or Ansible.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
• Experience with GitOps.
• Cloud platform familiarity (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Your Benefits

• Free space for innovation and independent action in a fast-growing international company.
• Mentorship from experienced platform, architecture, and automation engineers.
• Temporary Employee Exchange Program – we provide the ability for you to work at our global office locations and explore the world (e.g. Berlin, Madrid, Malta, Montréal, Washington D.C.).
• Home-office-option and flexible working time.
• Team events like Laser Tag, Office Movie Nights, Foodie Fridays and much more – let yourself be surprised!
• FitKit subscription and private insurance for your health!
• Unlimited contracts – we’re looking for hornets to grow long-term with us.
• Referral Bonus: we pay 1500€ for each referral who is successfully hired by us!

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