Nortal
Senior Platform/Systems Engineer
NortalEstonia2 days ago
Full-timeInformation Technology
Overview

At Nortal, we believe in thinking big — creating solutions that deliver meaningful, far-reaching impact. From digitizing governments to improving healthcare and enabling modern telecom services, our projects already touch the lives of over half a billion people worldwide.

As a Senior Platform/Systems Engineer, you’ll help build our vision of a Seamless Society by driving modernization through containerization and cloud-ready environments.

Responsibilities

  • Package legacy systems into Docker for local developer environments and future cloud migration.
  • Ensure reproducible, developer-friendly environments to accelerate modernization.
  • Work closely with developers, architects, and stakeholders to remove blockers.
  • Support integration of legacy binaries into containerized workloads.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation for smoother deployments.


Qualifications

Core expertise

  • 7+ years in Linux system engineering and DevOps.
  • Strong knowledge of Docker, container networking, and debugging.
  • Experience running Linux workloads on Windows (WSL2, kernel integration).


Modernization Skills

  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and developer enablement.
  • Experience wrapping legacy binaries for container execution.
  • Basic SQL knowledge; Oracle experience a plus.
  • Knowledge of C considered an advantage.


Consulting & communication

  • Ability to work directly with customer architects and stakeholders.
  • Excellent English communication and documentation skills.


Mindset

  • Problem-solver who thrives on untangling 20+ years of legacy complexity.
  • Hands-on across code, infra, and DB boundaries.


Nice to have

  • Telco industry experience, especially promotional engines.


We like to say that Nortal is a right-sized company – big enough to undertake and impact influential projects yet small enough to care. At Nortal, your voice is heard, and everyone’s input matters. You solve critical problems for interesting customers from different domains. You work with experienced colleagues in a warm environment. You can execute your ideas in a reasonable time frame.

And what you do and learn here are universally relevant and valuable. Last, but not least, Nortal is an agile company with low hierarchy – meaning heavy on common sense, light on rules, and substance is more important than titles!

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