Role: Senior System / Platform Engineer
Location: Italy
Experience: 5+ Years

About the Role

Are you an experienced Platform Engineer passionate about Linux, Kubernetes, virtualization, and large-scale infrastructure operations? Join our team and play a critical role in building, managing, and optimizing enterprise and telecom-grade platforms that power mission-critical services.
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior System / Platform Engineer who can take ownership of platform reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence across production and lab environments.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior System / Platform Engineer, you will:

Deploy, administer, and maintain Linux-based and Kubernetes-driven platforms.
Manage and optimize containerized and virtualized environments.
Integrate infrastructure components including compute, storage, and networking platforms.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex system, platform, and infrastructure issues.
Perform system performance analysis, optimization, and capacity planning.




Support automation initiatives to improve platform efficiency and reduce operational overhead.
Manage and support production, staging, and lab environments.
Drive operational excellence through proactive monitoring, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Participate in incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and problem management activities.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure platform availability, reliability, and scalability.

Required Technical Skills

Linux Administration

Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Linux system administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
System patching and lifecycle management

Kubernetes & Containers

Kubernetes cluster deployment and administration
Container platforms and orchestration
Kubernetes networking, storage, and security concepts
Troubleshooting containerized workloads in production environments

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