TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud/Kubernetes): Building and optimizing a central Kubernetes platform for development teams, with an accent on implementing security policies, disaster recovery strategies, and cloud-agnostic solutions. Focus on developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across cloud providers.

Location: Based in Munich or Berlin, Germany. Offers up to 20 days of workation in other EU countries.

Company

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What you will do

Complete, extend, and maintain the central Kubernetes platform serving development teams.
Implement security policies, disaster recovery strategies, and guardrails across the platform.
Design and implement cloud-agnostic solutions supporting a multi-cloud strategy.
Support development teams with onboarding and migration efforts.
Create documentation and runbooks for platform adoption and troubleshooting.
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 a secure company background.
Subsidized meals, company pension allowance, bicycle leasing program, and health management.
Discounts on magazines and over 300 brands.
Personal and professional development through internal and external training and coaching.
30 days of vacation, flexible working hours & work locations (by arrangement), and up to 20 days of workation in other EU countries.
Permanent employment contract and encouragement for internal transfers.
Smartphone and laptop for professional and private use.