Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes): Completing, extending, and maintaining a central Kubernetes platform that serves development teams, including implementing security policies and disaster recovery strategies. Focus on designing cloud-agnostic solutions supporting a multi-cloud strategy and ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across cloud providers.

Location: Munich or Berlin, Germany. Flexible working hours and work locations available by arrangement. Up to 20 days of workation in other EU countries per year.

Company

hirify.global is a broad-based, successful media company.

What you will do

• Complete, extend, and maintain the central Kubernetes platform.
• Implement security policies, disaster recovery strategies, and guardrails across the platform.
• Design and implement cloud-agnostic solutions supporting the multi-cloud strategy.
• Support development teams with onboarding and migration efforts.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment systems, and automation frameworks.
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across cloud providers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps Engineer with a focus on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including multi-tenancy, RBAC, networking, and cluster operations.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies, with extensive AWS experience.
• Extensive knowledge about Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform/Tofu, Terragrunt, and Crossplane.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and tools like ArgoCD or Flux.
• Solid programming and scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Passion for developer experience and building self-service platforms.

Nice to have

• Experience migrating from proprietary services to open-source alternatives.

Culture & Benefits

• Great creative freedom within the secure background of a broad-based successful company.
• Subsidized meals, company pension allowance, bicycle leasing program, and company health management.
• Free magazines and discounts on magazine subscriptions and over 300 brands.
• Personal and professional development through a wide range of internal and external training opportunities and coaching.
• 30 days of vacation, flexible working hours & work locations (by arrangement), up to 20 days of workation in other EU countries.
• Permanent employment contract, smartphone, and laptop for professional and private use.