Senior System Engineer

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.

• 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.

• Remote work opportunity.


• Flexible working schedule.


• Interesting product.


• Learning opportunities.


• Career growth prospects.