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Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d) at RedCap Pharmacy · Cologne
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Company Description
About Redcare Pharmacy:
As Europe’s No.1 e-pharmacy Redcare Pharmacy is powered by passionate teams and cutting-edge innovation. We strive to create a healthy collaborative work environment where every employee feels valued and inspired to contribute to our vision “Until every human has their health”. If you’re seeking a career that offers purpose and aligns with your values join us and start your #Redcareer today.
About the Role:
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll join our platform team within the Data & AI department and play a key role in shaping our next-generation AI Platform. You will have the opportunity to build the platform foundations, enabling teams to develop, deploy, govern, monitor, and scale AI systems safely and reliably. This is a role where you’ll make real-world impact, working with Kubernetes, Databricks, cloud-native technologies, and modern AI platform patterns while supporting our mission of delivering reliable and efficient systems.
Job Description
About your tasks:
- Design, build and maintain platform infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles with tools such as Terraform.
- Develop memory services, vector storage patterns, and semantic search capabilities.
- Design secure access patterns for agents to governed enterprise data, including Databricks, and integrate guardrails for allowed tools and data sources.
- Operate and evolve a Kubernetes-based platform for the Data & AI department, enabling deployment, management, and scaling of services following GitOps practices.
- Build observability capabilities covering agent execution, performance, reliability, cost signals, and operational health.
- Collaborate closely with other engineering, DevOps/MLOps, SRE, security, and product teams to define platform standards and improve developer self-service.
- Participate in architecture discussions, propose improvements, and drive adoption of platform engineering best practices.
- Stay current with emerging technologies in the cloud-native, AI platform, and agentic AI ecosystem to continuously improve the platform.
Qualifications
About you:
- Extensive practical experience operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure in production or at scale.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform, as well as automation, CI/CD, and GitOps delivery.
- Experience building reusable platform capabilities for engineering teams.
- Experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or similar technologies.
- Experience with RAG, vector search, embeddings, and knowledge retrieval systems.
- Experience integrating with governed data or ML platforms; Databricks experience is a strong plus.
- Proficient in Python, Shell, and/or Go for scripting and automating infrastructure and workflows.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and take ownership.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams in a fast-moving environment.
- Fluency in English; German language skills are a plus but not required.
Additional Information
About your benefits:
In order to provide you with the best possible support for your individual needs - whether it‘s living a healthy life, having enough time for your family, or developing your skills - we offer a wide range of different, site-specific benefits:
- Welcome days: We want you to feel at home with us from the very first day. Therefore, we welcome you with our comprehensive onboarding program.
- Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
- Mental Health: Get quick and professional help from psychologists of nilo if you feel overwhelmed in private or professional life. Anonymous and free of charge.
- Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
- Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.