Platform Engineer

DigitalService

Platform Engineer enhancing cloud-native applications at DigitalService GmbH by developing internal tools and infrastructure. Working on platform strategy and support while collaborating with engineering teams in a hybrid environment.

Posted 4/13/2026full-timeBerlin • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSenior💰 €60,000 - €68,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoJavaKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute to platform strategy and implementation: Work closely with Senior Software Engineers and leadership to execute technical roadmaps. Actively participate in team discussions, identify opportunities for system improvements, and help eliminate existing technical debt.
Build and maintain the platform infrastructure: Develop and maintain internal tools and platform services that streamline developers’ workflows. Manage and update our Infrastructure-as-Code setups (Terraform, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm) and ensure the day-to-day reliability, monitoring, and scalability of our Kubernetes clusters.
Support, documentation and enablement: Create and maintain clear, up-to-date technical documentation and runbooks. Provide hands-on support to our product development teams, help them onboard to platform tools, troubleshoot deployment pipelines, and enable successful use of self-service capabilities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Platform experience: You bring solid hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE. You have strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, container orchestration (Kubernetes), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), GitOps (ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize), CI/CD systems, and observability stacks.
Programming and systems knowledge: You are confident working with at least one relevant programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java). Additionally, you have a good understanding of Linux system administration and networking principles.
Product mindset: You view internal platforms from a customer-focused perspective, aiming to understand developers’ needs and deliver valuable, user-friendly solutions. You can communicate technical concepts clearly to different audiences and collaborate effectively across teams.
Motivation for the public sector: You are enthusiastic about the idea of digitizing public administration and want to apply your expertise to the requirements of the public sector.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Urban Sports Club & more: Each month you receive a €50 voucher on top of your salary that you can use flexibly. Fitness, tech, mobility, or food – you choose!
Flexible working hours, spaces for (hybrid) collaboration, efficient use of tools, a strong employee-orientation, and a commitment to being a learning organization.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Platform EngineeringDevOpsSREcloud infrastructurecontainer orchestrationKubernetesInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformGitOpsCI/CD

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationcustomer-focusedproblem-solvingtechnical documentation