About Xebia

For more than 25 years, our global network of passionate technologists and pioneering craftspeople has delivered cutting-edge technology and game-changing consulting to companies on the brink of AI driven digital transformation. Since 2001, we have grown into a full service digital consulting company with 6000+ professionals working on a worldwide ambition. Driven by the desire to make a difference, we keep innovating. Fuelling the growth of our company with our knowledge worker culture. When teaming up with Xebia, expect in-depth expertise based on an authentic, value-led, and high quality way of working that inspires all we do.

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Job Description - Platform / DevOps Engineer (Event-Driven Platforms)

Role Overview

We are looking for a Platform or DevOps Engineer with strong experience in event-driven architectures, and cloud-native platforms.

This role focuses on enabling resilient, observable, and continuously deployable event-driven systems operating at scale. The successful candidate will help deliver core platform capabilities including end-to-end distributed tracing, experimentation frameworks, workflow orchestration, and operational tooling across multiple environments.

The ideal candidate will bring practical experience operating event-driven systems in production environments, with particular emphasis on observability, deployment strategies, and platform reliability within GCP-based ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain DevOps and platform engineering capabilities within an event-driven, n8n-based architecture 

Implement end-to-end traceability across distributed workflows, tracking requests from client entry points through workflow execution and downstream services 

Deliver distributed tracing and observability capabilities using OpenTelemetry (OTel) 

Support multi-environment observability, monitoring, logging, and operational diagnostics 

Implement experimentation and continuous learning capabilities including: 

A/B testing 

canary deployments 

progressive rollout strategies 

Enable execution and orchestration of multiple workflows in parallel 

Develop and maintain deployment definitions, release automation, and operational tooling 

Generate and publish SDKs from Avro schemas across multiple programming languages 

Implement resilience patterns within shared libraries and platform components, including: 

retries 

circuit breakers 

flow control 

Collaborate with engineering teams to establish platform standards, reusable tooling, and operational best practices 

Provide ongoing platform support, maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement 

Required Skills & Experience

Strong experience in Platform Engineering and DevOps within cloud-native environments 

Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and distributed systems at scale 

Minimum 2 years of experience with GCP, particularly Pub/Sub-based systems 

Strong understanding of distributed tracing and observability concepts 

Experience designing resilient distributed systems and fault-tolerant integration patterns 

Familiarity with canary deployments, progressive delivery, and experimentation frameworks 

Experience with CI/CD automation and deployment orchestration 

Understanding of workflow orchestration and asynchronous processing patterns 

Strong troubleshooting, operational support, and production engineering skills 

Experience with n8n workflow automation platforms 

Nice to have

Experience working with Avro schemas and schema registry solutions 

Familiarity with shared platform libraries and internal developer platforms 

Experience supporting high-throughput messaging or event streaming systems 

Exposure to SRE practices and platform reliability engineering 

Experience building multi-language developer tooling and SDK publishing pipelines

Experience with SDK generation or schema-driven development approaches 

Experience implementing OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation and tracing 

What We Offer

• Full time permanent contract.
• Salary Range: €60,000 - €74,000 gross per year, depending on experience, skills, and the outcome of the technical assessment process.
• 27 days of annual leave plus national public holidays.
• 100% remote work with flexible working hours.
• Flexible Compensation Plan covering meals, transport, private healthcare, childcare, and training, with tax-saving benefits.
• Private Health Insurance fully funded by Xebia, including mental health support and dental coverage.
• Wellhub membership with access to wellbeing apps and optional gym plans.
• Benefits Hub with exclusive employee discounts on a wide range of products and services.
• Paid Wellbeing Leave through our internal time-bank system for medical appointments or short-term health needs.
• Remote Work Allowance (€25/month).
• €900 annual learning budget for certifications, training, conferences, and professional development.