Senior Platform Engineer

Who we are

At OPENLANE, we make wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful. We're a technology company, building the world's most advanced - and simple - digital marketplace for used vehicles. We're a data company, helping customers buy and sell smarter with clear, actionable insights they can understand and use. And we're an innovative company accelerating the future of wholesale remarketing through curiosity, collaboration, and an entrepreneurial spirit. OPENLANE offers its customers the best digital marketplace for used cars in Europe. Our B2B clients enjoy operational excellence when working with us.

 Our Values

• Driven Waybuilders: We pursue challenges that inspire us to build, create and innovate.
• Relentless Curiosity: We seek to understand and improve our customers' experience.
• Smart Risk-Taking: We transform risk into progress through data, experience, and intuition.
• Fearless Ownership: We deliver what we promise and learn along the way

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who’s excited to shape the backbone of our technology landscape. In this role, you’ll design, build, and run a reliable, scalable hybrid platform that powers our applications and services across both cloud and on‑prem environments.

You’ll help drive our transition toward a modern platform engineering model, enabling automation and developer self‑service while improving reliability, security, and operational efficiency. This is a hands‑on senior individual contributor role with strong technical ownership and a clear focus on building a resilient, future‑ready platform.

What are your key responsibilities?

• Design and evolve internal platform capabilities that simplify application deployment and operations
• Provide standardized, self‑service infrastructure building blocks for development teams
• Define and enforce consistent infrastructure and deployment patterns across environments
• Improve developer experience through platform tooling and automation
• Design, deploy, and operate hybrid infrastructure across on‑premise and cloud environments
• Own and maintain compute, storage, networking, and virtualization platforms
• Operate and optimize workloads running in Azure and hosted environments
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and configuration management tools
• Build, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery
• Reduce operational overhead by eliminating manual processes through scripting and automation
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities across the platform
• Lead incident analysis and root cause investigations, driving long‑term improvements
• Continuously improve system reliability, performance, and operational resilience
• Design and embed infrastructure security controls, including patching, access management, and compliance enforcement

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering, operating and improving production environments
• Hands‑on experience designing, running, and evolving hybrid infrastructure across on‑prem and cloud platforms
• Strong practical experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) to build scalable, repeatable systems
• Proven ability to support highly available and reliable production systems
• Ownership mindset with the ability to drive platform improvements and operational excellence
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, including mentoring and working effectively across engineering teams
• Professional fluency in English, both spoken and written

Core Technical Skills

• Windows Server administration
• Linux administration (Debian / Ubuntu)
• Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Hybrid infrastructure environments (on-premise and cloud integration)
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Scripting and automation (PowerShell, Bash, or similar)
• Docker containerization
• Understanding of container-based application platforms
• Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration platforms
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• Experience with monitoring and logging platforms
• Performance analysis and root cause investigation
• Azure DevOps

Benefits

What's in it for you?
OPENLANE Europe can give your career a boost and offers you a challenging position in a rapidly changing environment. In return for your dedication and added value you receive a competitive salary and extra-legal advantages such as:

• Yearly bonus plan
• Hybrid working and flexible hours
• Competitive salary & comprehensive benefits package depending on the country of employment

• Opportunity to work in a highly dynamic, international, and innovative environment
• Opportunity to help shape the future of our platform by influencing infrastructure strategy and platform evolution, working hands‑on with hybrid and cloud technologies alongside experienced architects and engineers.

Are we the perfect match?

• Can you fulfill this vital function within our digital marketplace?

• Are you dedicated and able to communicate within a down-to-earth company where we highly believe in a can-do mentality?

Ready to take the next step in your career? Go for it and unlock your full potential!
Send us your CV in English and motivation letter and become part of the OPENLANE team and contribute to a high performing culture. Please take note that the recruitment interviews will take place in English.

OPENLANE is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.