Senior Platform & Release Engineer - Customer API Fabric

It's more than a job

In this IT role, you will manage, develop, and support the technology infrastructure that powers Kuehne+Nagel’s global systems and operations. This contribution is vital to making both special and ordinary moments in the lives of people a reality. In fact, your work enables our teams to deliver fresh fruit, time-sensitive healthcare products and much more to people all around the world. Working in IT at Kuehne+Nagel contributes to more than we imagine.

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As Senior Platform & Release Engineer for Customer API Fabric, you will own the infrastructure, GitOps and release mechanisms used to operate the platform in production.
This is not primarily an infrastructure implementation role. The central responsibility is independent ownership of production risk.
Changes to the repositories you own can propagate automatically into production environments. We, therefore, expect you to understand not only how to make a change, but also its blast radius, failure modes, rollback strategy and operational consequences.
You will be trusted to make production-impacting engineering decisions without requiring another engineer to act as a permanent backstop.

## How you create impact

- Own end-to-end infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and GitOps-based deployment configuration.
- Maintain and evolve Kubernetes deployments using Kubernetes, Argo CD and Kustomize, and AWS infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu, Terragrunt, EKS, IAM, KMS and related AWS services, and platform services such as messaging and streaming (RabbitMQ/AMQP and AWS MSK / Managed Kafka), HashiCorp Vault and the ELK stack.
- Own and secure application and infrastructure secrets management, including GitOps workflows using SOPS with GPG/Age or equivalent technologies.
- Assess production risks, review infrastructure and deployment changes, and design safe rollout, validation and rollback strategies.
- Diagnose issues across CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes and AWS, and continuously improve release processes and deployment automation.
- Maintain and improve the CI/build infrastructure supporting API Fabric, contributing to Go-based build, dependency automation (Renovate) and engineering tooling where needed.
- Strengthen platform observability, operational readiness and engineering guardrails while enabling efficient, reliable delivery.
- Document architecture, operational procedures and engineering decisions, as well as mentor engineers in platform, deployment and production engineering practices.

## What we would like you to bring

- Strong experience in platform engineering, production reliability and release management, ideally within internal developer platforms or API platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Argo CD, Kustomize, Terraform/OpenTofu, Terragrunt and AWS, and with platform services such as RabbitMQ/AMQP, AWS MSK (Managed Streaming for Kafka), Vault, the ELK stack and Renovate.
- Experience with secure secrets management using SOPS with GPG and/or Age, and familiarity with GitLab CI/CD and Go-based tooling.
- Understanding of API gateways such as KrakenD, PKI and certificate management, and platform observability.
- Experience with multi-environment Kubernetes platforms, policy-as-code, deployment guardrails, and disaster recovery and resilience practices.
- Proven ability to simplify fragile deployment processes and design secure, reliable and recoverable release workflows.
- Strong production engineering judgement, with the ability to assess risks pragmatically, challenge unsafe changes and make evidence-based technical decisions.
- Ability to work autonomously, understand systems before changing them, balance automation with appropriate safeguards, and communicate technical trade-offs clearly to engineering teams and product leadership.

## What's in it for you

Join Kuehne+Nagel’s IT Hub in Tallinn, where your work will have a meaningful impact on the logistics industry. Here, you’ll find a hybrid work model, extensive health benefits, and a culture of continuous learning that ensures your career growth. You’ll be surrounded by extraordinary and committed people, all dedicated to shaping the future of logistics.
Even if you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply — your unique perspective and experience could be exactly what we need. Be part of a team that values work-life balance, supports your personal well-being, and empowers you to contribute to something truly impactful.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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