Senior System Engineer
Neo Group · Belgrade
As part of our continued growth, Neo Group is recruiting on behalf of one of our local partners, leveraging our network of 1,400 talented professionals across 10+ countries. Together, we are committed to delivering innovative, data-driven solutions that empower our clients and foster professional growth within a dynamic and collaborative workplace.
We are 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice to Have
- 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.
Benefits
- Recharge your batteries with 20 paid working vacation days annually to explore, relax, and rejuvenate.
- Kick off your birthday month with a bang! Not only do you get heartfelt birthday wishes from your team, but you also enjoy a fully-paid day off.
- Get legal support for obtaining a local work/residence permit.
- Prioritize your health with compensation for wellness activities.
- Experience an international work environment with a passionate, motivated, and professional team.
- We support your health by partially or fully reimbursing medical insurance costs, depending on the chosen plan.
- Invest in your growth using professional development compensation.
- Boost your energy and morale with complimentary snacks available in the office.
- Foster camaraderie and celebrate achievements through engaging in corporate events throughout the year.
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