Senior Platform Engineer

We are looking for a talented Senior Platform Engineer to join the Edge Platform Engineering Team within the Security Platform Practice, which provides first-class security and technical services for TUI’s master domain.

About Nortal:

We’re Nortal. We think big and create cutting-edge digital solutions with a global reach. And with 25 years of experience, 2,700+ professional experts, and half a billion people worldwide impacted by our work, we believe we’ve got the numbers to back up that statement.

Our global teams have played a significant role in many Fortune 500 companies’ projects and systems and have been the driving force of digital transformation for governments, healthcare institutions, and leading enterprises worldwide. We combine best-in-class strategic consulting with software engineering, data, and design practices to bring our visions to life.

About the project TUI, is a global business with over 70 000 people on board, great history and challenging plans for building a digital future. TUI is the largest leisure, travel and tourism company globally, and it owns travel agencies, hotels, airlines, cruise ships and retail shops.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be a practitioner and advocate of state-of-the-art cloud engineering practices, with a strong DevSecOps mindset. You will work across the full software development lifecycle, from designing and building solutions to testing, deployment and operation.

You will be part of a cross-functional team providing a platform across multiple domains, taking ownership of the platform from design through to operation. The role has a strong focus on AWS, Terraform, web security, WAF, CDN and modern internet security, including evolving threats related to bots, scrapers and AI-driven activity.

Responsibilities

• Develop, operate and continuously improve highly available, distributed cloud platforms and services.
• Take end-to-end ownership of the platform across design, build, testing, deployment and operation.
• Build and maintain scalable solutions in AWS using Terraform, infrastructure-as-code and DevSecOps practices.
• Support and develop web security and content delivery capabilities, including WAF and CDN solutions.
• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, automation, engineering workflows and self-service capabilities for platform consumers.
• Ensure operational readiness, observability, security, documentation and overall platform quality.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across different domains to evaluate new technologies, tools and approaches and support their effective adoption.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with highly available, distributed systems and services in cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, including an understanding of overall AWS architecture and services used to build and operate scalable platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong understanding of WAF, CDN and web security concepts, including DDoS mitigation, vulnerability management and scanning.
• Good understanding of modern internet technologies and protocols, including SSL/TLS, HTTPS, HTTP headers and DNS.
• Good understanding of current internet security threats, including bots and scrapers, and how these affect production web platforms.
• Ability to understand, read and review code, particularly in languages such as Python and Go, and effectively use AI-assisted development tools to support coding activities.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud-based content delivery and security platforms such as Akamai, Cloudflare or AWS-based solutions.
• Hands-on development experience with Python or Go.
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda and API Gateway.
• Experience with GitLab CI and CI/CD automation.
• Experience building self-service capabilities for platform consumers.
• Experience contributing to engineering Communities of Practice or cross-team technical initiatives.