Senior OpenShift/Kubernetes Platform Engineer

avacone Switzerland

Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Platform Engineer joining infrastructure and operations team, managing enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform in banking.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeBasel • 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudGoKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Operate, maintain, and continuously improve the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform.
Ensure platform stability, scalability, security, and performance across hybrid cloud environments.
Perform complete platform lifecycle management including installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and decommissioning.
Participate in a rotating on-call support schedule within a four-person team.
Design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
Manage networking, storage, security, and cluster services.
Develop reusable container platform standards, templates, and base images.
Support business application teams in adopting cloud-native technologies and containerized workloads.
Provide architectural guidance for high availability, disaster recovery, and workload resilience.
Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
Build reusable automation frameworks using Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps methodologies.
Improve operational efficiency through scripting and automation.
Standardize platform configuration management and orchestration.
Design and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
Integrate CI/CD pipelines into infrastructure deployment processes.
Promote DevOps best practices across infrastructure and application delivery teams.
Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to enable automated application deployment.
Integrate security scanning, compliance controls, and observability into the platform.
Ensure alignment with Bank security standards, governance, and change management processes.
Design resilient platform architectures supporting disaster recovery and business continuity.
Contribute to the Bank’s hybrid cloud strategy and platform roadmap.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements.
Drive automation initiatives across the infrastructure landscape.
Promote engineering best practices and continuous improvement.
Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Storage, Cloud, and Application Development teams.
Support development teams building cloud-native, serverless, and containerized applications.
Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum 5 years of experience in OpenShift/Kubernetes platform engineering within enterprise environments.
Strong expertise in OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux administration, container technologies, and hybrid cloud platforms.
Hands-on experience with OVN-K, Ceph/CSI, Quay, Argo CD/GitOps, Velero, Ansible, and Terraform.
Proficiency in Bash, Python, and Go scripting.
Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, CI/CD, Git, and DevOps practices.
Strong understanding of automation, platform lifecycle management, and cloud-native technologies.
Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with data centre infrastructure, networking, virtualization, and public cloud integration. (Preferred)
Knowledge of OAuth, token-based authentication, and REST API integrations. (Preferred)
Experience working in Agile environments and contributing to technology strategy and platform modernization. (Preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Operate, maintain, and continuously improve the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform.
Ensure platform stability, scalability, security, and performance across hybrid cloud environments.
Perform complete platform lifecycle management including installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and decommissioning.
Participate in a rotating on-call support schedule within a four-person team.
Design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
Manage networking, storage, security, and cluster services.
Develop reusable container platform standards, templates, and base images.
Support business application teams in adopting cloud-native technologies and containerized workloads.
Provide architectural guidance for high availability, disaster recovery, and workload resilience.
Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
Build reusable automation frameworks using Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps methodologies.
Improve operational efficiency through scripting and automation.
Standardize platform configuration management and orchestration.
Design and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
Integrate CI/CD pipelines into infrastructure deployment processes.
Promote DevOps best practices across infrastructure and application delivery teams.
Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to enable automated application deployment.
Integrate security scanning, compliance controls, and observability into the platform.
Ensure alignment with Bank security standards, governance, and change management processes.
Design resilient platform architectures supporting disaster recovery and business continuity.
Contribute to the Bank’s hybrid cloud strategy and platform roadmap.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements.
Drive automation initiatives across the infrastructure landscape.
Promote engineering best practices and continuous improvement.
Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Storage, Cloud, and Application Development teams.
Support development teams building cloud-native, serverless, and containerized applications.
Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 🎯 Requirements
Minimum 5 years of experience in OpenShift/Kubernetes platform engineering within enterprise environments.
Strong expertise in OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux administration, container technologies, and hybrid cloud platforms.
Hands-on experience with OVN-K, Ceph/CSI, Quay, Argo CD/GitOps, Velero, Ansible, and Terraform.
Proficiency in Bash, Python, and Go scripting.
Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, CI/CD, Git, and DevOps practices.
Strong understanding of automation, platform lifecycle management, and cloud-native technologies.
Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with data centre infrastructure, networking, virtualization, and public cloud integration. (Preferred)
Knowledge of OAuth, token-based authentication, and REST API integrations. (Preferred)
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Hard Skills & Tools

OpenShiftKubernetesLinux AdministrationContainer TechnologiesBash ScriptingPython ScriptingGo ScriptingInfrastructure AutomationConfiguration ManagementDevOps Practices

Soft Skills

Analytical SkillsCommunication SkillsStakeholder Management