Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

One of our European Institution clients is looking for a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer to strengthen its Infrastructure and Operations team.

The successful candidate will join the Central Infrastructure team, responsible for the implementation and operational management of compute and storage platforms supporting critical business applications.

This position focuses on the administration, security, automation and optimization of on-premises container platforms and Kubernetes environments.

Your responsibilities

 As a Senior Kubernetes Platform Administrator, you will be responsible for: 

• Deploying, configuring, upgrading and maintaining container platforms such as Rancher, Tanzu and OpenShift.
• Managing and operating Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
• Automating infrastructure provisioning and application deployment using Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Implementing monitoring and observability solutions to ensure platform availability and reliability.
• Managing platform security, RBAC policies, network policies, secret management and workload security.
• Troubleshooting platform, cluster, node and container-related issues.
• Collaborating with DevOps and development teams to support CI/CD integration and application onboarding.
• Performing capacity planning activities based on usage and growth forecasts.
• Supporting migration projects and infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Conducting performance assessments and recommending improvements.
• Preparing and executing proofs of concept and technical studies.
• Delivering technical training sessions and knowledge transfer activities.

Your profile

• Minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience in infrastructure and platform administration
• Strong experience with Kubernetes architecture and administration
• Proven experience managing production Kubernetes environments
• Hands-on experience with container platforms such as Rancher, Tanzu and/or OpenShift
• Good understanding of Kubernetes networking, storage and core component
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools
• Knowledge of application lifecycle management within Kubernetes environments
• Ability to write and maintain scripts using Ansible, Python or Bash
• Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD tools

Technical Skills:

Mandatory

• Kubernetes
• Rancher, Tanzu or OpenShift
• Ansible
• Helm
• Linux administration
• Monitoring and logging solutions
• RBAC and security management
• Bash, Python or scripting languages

Nice to have

• Git
• ArgoCD
• Harbor
• JFrog
• Sysdig
• CI/CD environments

Our offer

• An attractive salary package ranging from €76,000 to €84,000 gross per year, with or without a company car
• 12 additional paid leave days per year (RTT) to support a better work-life balance
• Meal vouchers as well as monthly net allowances to cover representation expenses, internet costs, and the use of your personal equipment
• Eco vouchers to support your everyday eco-friendly purchases
• Hospitalization insurance fully covered by the company for your personal coverage
• An annual bonus
• A personalized development program, including at least 7 training days per year to help you enhance your skills
• Access to the Employee Club, giving you access to a wide range of daily benefits and discounts