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