(Senior) Platform Engineer - Security Service Edge (f/m/d)
Remote · Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany or Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Job Summary
Senior Platform Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving the Zscaler setup used globally; building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code modules (OpenTofu/Terraform) to automate platform rollout, policy deployment, and lifecycle operations; continuously improving the platform’s reliability, observability, performance, and security posture; driving architectural decisions and aligning designs with security principles; collaborating with cross-functional teams; providing guidance to accelerate adoption and governance; identifying automation opportunities to reduce manual work and speed service delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Deep experience in security engineering or network engineering, ideally focused on Secure Service Edge (SSE) or Zero‐Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Hands‐on expertise with Zscaler, or comparable SSE platforms
- Solid understanding of modern internet security concepts, secure access patterns, DNS, proxy architectures, traffic inspection, and identity‐driven policy enforcement
- Ability to translate complex business needs into secure, scalable, and automated technical solutions
- Proven experience with working in large enterprise environments with global user populations
- Structured, collaborative, resilient, and confident working style with strong customer focus and problem solving mindset
- Eager to work in a central product team with high visibility and impact
- Business fluent in English, conversational in German
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