Junior Platform Engineer – North Macedonia

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Intro

We are looking for a Junior Platform Engineer to help keep our platform reliable, scalable, and efficient. You will work on CI/CD pipelines, monitor operational dashboards, support Kubernetes deployment tooling, and collaborate with development and automation teams to improve engineering workflows. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys problem-solving, automation, and learning from senior engineers.

This full-time hybrid role in Skopje, North Macedonia is available immediately.

Your Job

• You monitor dashboards and alerts to detect issues or performance problems, maintain documentation for platform changes and troubleshooting.
• You support senior engineers in incident triage and response.
• You maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure stable builds, tests, and deployments.
• You work with developers to integrate tests and quality checks, recommend and implement improvements to pipeline speed and reliability.
• You assist automation teams with workflow and pipeline tooling.
• You create and maintain Helm charts with proper versioning and best practices, review Helm merge requests and support safe deployments.
• You assist with Kubernetes configurations, rollouts, and resource optimization.
• You help development teams with configuration, deployment, and environment setup.
• You contribute to scripts and tools that improve automation and efficiency.
• You participate in cross-team efforts to improve engineering workflows.
• You follow operational, security, and coding standard, document best practices and internal processes.
• You join code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and learning sessions.

Your Profile

• You have basic knowledge of Linux, containers, and cloud-native concepts.
• You are familiar with GitLab CI and TeamCity.
• You have some exposure to Kubernetes and YAML.
• You have interest or experience in Helm, scripting, or automation.
• You can write simple scripts (Bash, Python, etc.).
• You have strong problem-solving and communication skills, as well as eagerness to learn.

Nice to Have Skills

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• Knowledge of Terraform or Ansible.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
• Experience with GitOps.
• Cloud platform familiarity (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Your Benefits

• Free space for innovation and independent action in a fast-growing international company.
• Mentorship from experienced platform, architecture, and automation engineers.
• Temporary Employee Exchange Program – we provide the ability for you to work at our global office locations and explore the world (e.g. Berlin, Madrid, Malta, Montréal, Washington D.C.).
• Home-office-option and flexible working time.
• Team events like Laser Tag, Office Movie Nights, Foodie Fridays and much more – let yourself be surprised!
• FitKit subscription and private insurance for your health!
• Unlimited contracts – we’re looking for hornets to grow long-term with us.
• Referral Bonus: we pay 1500€ for each referral who is successfully hired by us!

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About Hornetsecurity

Hornetsecurity is a leading global provider of next-generation cloud-based security, compliance, backup, and security awareness solutions that help companies and organisations of all sizes around the world. Its flagship product, 365 Total Protection, is the most comprehensive cloud security solution for Microsoft 365 on the market. Driven by innovation and cybersecurity excellence, Hornetsecurity is building a safer digital future and sustainable security cultures with its award-winning portfolio. Hornetsecurity operates in more than 120 countries through its international distribution network of 12,000+ channel partners and MSPs. Its premium services are used by more than 125,000 customers.

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