DevOps & Platform Engineering – Grid Asset System (PID)

This is a remote position.

DevOps & Platform Engineering Grid Asset System (PID)

• Contract / Freelance
  
• Full-time
  
• Remote with travel readiness required (Germany)
  
• Start: Immediately
  
• 6 months (extensions possible)
  

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Principal Platform Engineer. You will help build and establish a cloud-native hybrid cloud engineering platform (Azure and on-premises) supporting approximately 20 product teams and 150 developers acting as a central enabler for the efficient development and stable operation of MCCS products.

What youll be doing

• Designing implementing and documenting a cloud-native Kubernetes-based engineering platform
  
• Adapting and customising standardised engineering services across code build deploy and run phases
  
• Implementing Infrastructure-as-Code for reproducible versioned environment and service provisioning enabling developer self-service
  
• Integrating centrally provided platform services including Kubernetes Kafka PostgreSQL and observability tooling
  
• Designing implementing and operating CI/CD pipelines and establishing SDLC standards aligned to best practices and security requirements
  
• Introducing trunk-based development automated testing and build and release best practices
  
• Analysing existing systems and deriving migration strategies for applications and development teams transitioning to EDP
  
• Providing technical consultancy on integration into the multi-tier platform architecture (EDP GrASP MCCS)
  
• Empowering development teams to use the platform independently over time
  

Requirements

What youll need

• 10 years of experience as a DevOps and/or Platform Engineer
  
• 5 years of experience as a Principal Platform Engineer and/or SRE
  
• Excellent knowledge of setting up and migrating engineering platforms for very large development teams (20 teams 100 developers)
  
• Excellent knowledge and extensive experience in Developer Experience
  
• Excellent knowledge of build and deployment tooling across Azure and on-premises environments
  
• Extensive expertise in GitOps deployments and deployment strategies including ArgoCD and Helm
  
• Excellent knowledge of cloud-native secure SDLCs
  
• Excellent knowledge of monitoring with Grafana Prometheus Loki and OpenTelemetry
  
• Fluent English (C1 minimum)
  

Desirable

• Proven experience building engineering platforms and self-service platforms/Golden Paths
  
• Experience designing platforms as products with clear APIs and roadmaps
  
• Experience in large-scale cloud/platform migrations
  
• Expertise in Kubernetes multi-cluster platform operation
  
• Knowledge of CI/CD architectures including Azure DevOps and
  
• Knowledge of GitOps and deployment strategies including Blue/Green and Canary
  
• DevSecOps and Security-by-Design experience in critical infrastructure or regulated systems
  

Benefits