Platform / DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes & AWS

Project overview

You will be part of an established platform team and, together with your colleagues, will be responsible for the stable operation and continuous development of a modern cloud and Kubernetes platform.

The platform provides standardized and, as far as possible, self-serviceable infrastructure and platform services to numerous development teams. In addition to AWS and Kubernetes, Azure as well as on-premise/private cloud environments will play a role in the future. The goal is an increasingly abstracted and cloud-agnostic platform architecture.

A significant focus is on automation, Infrastructure as Code, self-service, observability, and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Operation, further development, and modernization of productive Kubernetes platforms
• Setup and operation of Kubernetes clusters on AWS, especially with Amazon EKS
• Automation of infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform
• Further development of automated CI/CD and deployment processes
• Setup and provision of standardized platform services for development teams
• Development of self-service solutions and so-called Golden Paths
• Support in standardizing and automating recurring infrastructure processes
• Setup and further development of monitoring and observability solutions
• Operation of monitoring stacks with, for example, Prometheus and Grafana
• Implementation of GitOps approaches and automated deployments
• Conception of secure cloud and platform architectures, considering IAM, network segmentation, and authorization concepts
• Ensuring the stability, scalability, performance, and security of the platform
• Collaboration with development teams and the developer experience environment
• Support with cloud, infrastructure, and modernization projects
• Further development of the platform towards multi-cloud or cloud-agnostic architecture
• Creation and maintenance of technical documentation and runbooks
• After appropriate familiarization, participation in on-call duty

Requirements

Technologies (typical in the project)

Desirable:

Framework parameters:

Your GECO contact person looks forward to hearing from you and receiving your meaningful project history as well as your fee/salary/price expectations.

• Several years of practical experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or in a comparable role
• Very good experience in the productive operation of Kubernetes environments
• Profound knowledge in the AWS environment
• Experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes-based platform architectures
• Very good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes
• Experience with monitoring and observability
• Good knowledge of Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with GitOps approaches, for example Argo CD
• Experience with IAM, network, and security concepts within cloud environments
• Understanding of highly available, scalable, and security-critical production environments
• Experience in collaborating with software development and platform teams
• Independent and structured way of working
• Kubernetes, AWS, EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Lambda, Terraform, CloudFormation, Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, CloudWatch, Argo CD, GitOps, CI/CD, Microservices, Containers, Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with multi-cloud architectures
• Knowledge of Azure and/or on-premise/private cloud environments
• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms or Developer Platforms
• Experience in setting up self-service platforms
• Experience with Golden Paths and standardized platform services
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Knowledge of AWS CloudFormation
• Experience with container security and image scanning
• Knowledge of tools like Trivy or Harbor
• Experience with CloudWatch or Thanos
• Experience with Security-by-Design approaches
• Location: Remote (up to 90%) and Cologne
• Duration: Immediate
• 31.12.2027 + option for extension
• Utilization: Full-time

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: remote
• Location: Remote, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland, DE
• Languages: German