Lead Platform Engineer

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

Tech Lead - Platform Engineer