Cloudiax

Platform Engineer – Kubernetes, GitOps, AI interest

Cloudiax

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Germany

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Tech Stack

AnsibleCloudFluxGrafanaKubernetesPostgresPrometheusTerraform

About the role

  • You act as the interface between development and cloud administration
  • Your responsibility is to design our Kubernetes platform and deployment processes so developers can work efficiently, reproducibly, and with standardized workflows
  • You work closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams to provide a reliable platform
  • Enhance and operate our Kubernetes platform in on‑premise data centers, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance
  • Build and optimize self‑service processes that enable developers to perform efficient, standardized deployments
  • Optimize resource usage (CPU, RAM, storage, GPU) and develop fair workload strategies
  • Operate and evolve our PostgreSQL platform, including high availability, backup/recovery, and performance tuning
  • Automate infrastructure and deployment tasks using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
  • Build and run modern CI/CD and GitOps processes (e.g., Argo CD, Flux)
  • Define platform standards, templates, and best practices to ensure a consistent developer experience
  • Integrate and operate authentication and authorization systems (Keycloak) as well as API gateways (Kong)
  • Ensure multi‑tenancy, isolation, and compliance with security requirements
  • Implement and operate monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
  • Develop intelligent scaling mechanisms (e.g., HPA, custom metrics) beyond classical CPU/RAM metrics
  • Support development teams in using the platform and continuously improve the developer experience
  • Serve as the interface between development and cloud administration: gather requirements, improve workflows, and provide feedback
  • Bring your interest in AI topics and explore automation and orchestration opportunities

Requirements

  • 2–5 years of relevant professional experience operating or building Kubernetes or similar platforms
  • Experience with automation / Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
  • Knowledge of CI/CD processes and GitOps
  • Interest in developer experience, process improvement, and new technologies
  • Openness to AI applications in the platform context
  • Exposure to observability/monitoring, auth systems, or databases (PostgreSQL)
  • Fluent German and good English skills
Benefits
  • 100% remote position with a high degree of flexibility in working hours
  • Attractive annual salary, plus automatic KPI-based salary increases and competitive annual bonuses
  • 30+ days of annual leave
  • Fully equipped premium home office setup
  • Company (e)bike, supplementary employer health insurance, and other corporate benefits
  • Work in an international environment at one of the world’s leading cloud providers in the SAP space
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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesPostgreSQLTerraformAnsibleCI/CDGitOpsmonitoringloggingtracingscaling mechanisms
Soft Skills
process improvementdeveloper experiencecommunicationcollaborationfeedbackopenness to new technologiesinterest in AI