Platform Engineer

About the role

instX is a European cybersecurity and platform engineering company that combines platform engineering, DevSecOps, security operations and compliance. It is looking for a Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable and reliable hosting platforms for internal and external customers, using Hetzner, AWS, Kubernetes and modern infrastructure technologies. The position is open exclusively to candidates based in North Macedonia.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, operate and continuously improve scalable hosting platforms for internal services, customer applications and external workloads.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure across AWS, Hetzner, Proxmox and hybrid environments, including compute, networking, storage, load balancing and virtualization.
• Build, maintain and optimize production Kubernetes clusters, including networking, storage, autoscaling, upgrades, resource management and high availability.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and automated provisioning solutions.
• Deploy and maintain shared services such as databases, object storage, caching, messaging, identity services and others.
• Design and troubleshoot networks, including routing, firewalls, VPNs, DNS, load balancers and network segmentation.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and performance optimization; implement security controls, access management, secrets management, encryption, backups, disaster recovery and hardening.
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure issues, take part in incident response, document technical details and work with engineering and security teams.

Required profile

• Hands-on experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, systems engineering or similar roles.
• Practical experience with AWS and/or Hetzner; experience with both is preferred.
• Strong Linux administration, including system configuration, performance tuning, troubleshooting and shell scripting.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, VPNs, load balancing).
• Experience managing infrastructure services such as databases, storage and caching.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools, and understanding of infrastructure security and access control.
• Problem-solving skills, technical ownership and ability to collaborate with software, infrastructure and security teams.

Required skills

• Kubernetes and Docker, including cluster administration, networking, storage and production troubleshooting.
• Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Nice to have: AWS EKS, Hetzner Cloud, Cilium, Helm, Longhorn, Argo CD, AWS VPC/IAM/EC2/S3/RDS/Route 53/KMS, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Proxmox, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, Python, Bash or Go, ISO 27001/NIS2/DORA exposure.

What we offer

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Extra paid days off each year beyond regular vacation.
• Competitive salary reflecting experience, skills and responsibilities.
• Support for certifications, training, courses and conferences.