Senior Platform Engineer (all genders)
Senior Platform Engineer (all genders)
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Job Description
About Us
We are shaping a digital state - together with the administration. As a partner at eye level we strengthen the administration on its way to driving its own digitalisation. With our own iterative product development and our commitment to better framework conditions we create the basis for digital solutions that are scalable and effective.
About The Position
Our Platform Team builds and maintains the internal tools services and infrastructure that empower our project teams to build and operate scalable and reliable cloud-native applications. As a Senior Platform Engineer youll be a key technical contributor on this crucial team applying your extensive expertise to tackle complex challenges and elevate our platform. Youll play a vital role in the design and development of our platform services to ensure reliability and security. Youll help us foster a culture of enablement and operational excellence and drive the creation of developer-centric tools enabling high-velocity and high-quality software delivery. More information about the platform team can be found here.
What Youll Do
- Innovate & Optimize Platform Infrastructure: Support the design and implementation of internal tools and platform services that simplify developer interactions. Refine and evolve our infrastructure-as-code setups (Terraform ArgoCD Kustomize Helm) and optimize our Kubernetes clusters for high performance reliability and cost-efficiency.
- Communicate Support & Enable: Cultivate a knowledge-sharing culture by creating comprehensive documentation and resources proactively communicate platform updates and roadmaps and provide expert consultation and support to empower project teams through primarily self-service capabilities.
- Influence further Platform Development: Working closely with our Delivery Teams to proactively identify and propose solutions for technical debt and future-looking challenges.
What Youre Bringing
- Platform Expertise: Significant hands-on experience in platform engineering DevOps or SRE. You have expertise in cloud infrastructure container orchestration (Kubernetes) infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) GitOps (ArgoCD Helm Kustomize) CI/CD systems and observability stacks.
- Programming & Systems Skills: Proficiency in relevant programming languages (e.g. Go Python Java). Strong understanding of Linux system administration and fundamental networking principles.
- Product Mindset: You approach internal platforms with a customer-centric view focusing on understanding developer needs and delivering valuable user-friendly solutions. You excel at communicating technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences and collaborating effectively across teams.
- Motivation for Public Service: Youre excited about the idea of digitalizing public administration and are comfortable working in English (German is a plus).
Why Join Our Team
- Become part of a mission-driven team that shares a common vision: to develop user-centered digital solutions with the federal administration.
- Our over 50 engineers (all genders) are characterized by technical excellence very high team and communication skills and a genuine agile mindset. And of course we look forward to you as a new team member. You can find more information about Software Engineering @DigitalService in our blog article here.
- Our growing organization offers ideal conditions for now over 200 digital experts. New Work is not a project for us but an integral part of our culture. Flexible working hours spaces for (hybrid) collaboration efficient tool use high employee orientation and a self-image as a learning organization characterize us.
- Our compensation system is based on comparability reliability and fairness. The salary range for this position is between 70.000 - 78.000 gross per year (full-time). For your individual classification within our salary bands and levels we take into account the scope of responsibility of the position the complexity of the activities and the assessment of your skills from the interviews. Details on our level and salary system can be found in this blog post.
Our Benefits & Perks:
- Compensation & Financial Security: Competitive salary attractive pension scheme and individual budget (e.g. for food technology mobility or Urban Sports M).
- Work Environment & Culture: Modern office choice of tech and agile iterative principles.
- Learning & Development: Annual training budget of up to 2000 and five training days.
- Work-Life Integration: Flexible hours and workation options of up to six weeks in European countries.
- Health & Well-being: Professional support for your mental health through .
How To Apply
We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We therefore welcome all applications - regardless of religion and ideology nationality and (ethnic and social) origin gender and gender identity.
We only check incoming applications for their professional qualifications and the key qualifications required for the position in question. We would therefore ask you to refrain from including a photo of yourself in your CV and to delete information about your place of residence age gender marital status or similar.
Recruiting Process & Contact Person
Once we have received your application we will send an invitation to an initial meeting (screening call) with the responsible person from our Talent Acquisition team or a rejection to you within two weeks.
A successful screening call is followed by two to three interviews with DigitalService employees. The first interview will focus on your professional qualifications followed by your values and expectations in terms of teamwork and collaboration. We will provide you with feedback after the appointments and get back to you quickly after the last interview with the final acceptance or rejection.
We are available at any time during the entire process for questions feedback and dialogue.
Do you have any questions for us Your contact person is Corinna ().
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
