Platform Engineer Lead

Job description

**About the Role** We're looking for an experienced Lead Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain modern software artifacts, cloud-native infrastructure and deployment pipelines in the context of IIoT. Automating processes and building reliable, scalable systems is your passion, and you thrive in collaborative environments where infrastructure meets development. **Responsibilities** - Technical driver for software development and DevOps practices within agile software development teams - Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows - Build and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes - Develop automation scripts and tools - Contribute to application development tasks as needed, leveraging your programming expertise - Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration management solutions - Collaborate on technical decisions around deployment strategies, monitoring, and observability - Ensure security, compliance, and best practices across the infrastructure - Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for infrastructure and processes - Collaborate closely with development teams, SRE, and platform engineering - Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost efficiency - Mentor team members on DevOps practices **Profile** - Min. 10 years extensive experience in software developemt, DevOps engineering and cloud infrastructure - Independent working style and the ability to work through tasks independently in a structured manner, also as coordinator within the team - Programming skills in C#, TypeScript and optionally Python - Expertise with Kubernetes and container orchestration - Hands-on experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD) - Proficient with CI/CD tools (GitLab) - Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) - Strong understanding of infrastructure as code (Terraform) - Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) - Flexibility to support development initiatives and cross-functional projects - Documentation skills and attention to detail - Excellent problem-solving and communication skills - Structured, proactive, and automation-first mindset