Im Rahmen eines innovativen Plattform Projektes im Energiesektor suchen wir im Auftrag unseres Kunden nach Unterstützung als Senior Operation Engineer (m/w/d) mit 3 Jahren On Premise Erfahrung im Kubernetes Umfeld. Die Tätigkeit erfolgt weitestgehend Remote und nach Absprache ca. 1 mal im Monat für paar Tage am Stück in Frankfurt oder Berlin.

Project Description

The team is building an internal platform for software product developers to accelerate the development and delivery of software products to tackle the massive challenges facing the energy sector. The Platform is a service oriented, cloud-native platform that is being built to provide application teams with self-service capabilities to develop, run and operate their software products. Platform provides services for application infrastructure, data, service lifecycle management, application build and delivery as well as services to operate their software products. The Platform is deployed as a hybrid cloud, encompassing both private cloud and select public clouds.

General Description

The Product Line is responsible for a product portfolio , consisting of an Infrastructure as a Service Product, a managed Kubernetes Service, a resource management service to facilitate scalable management of platform permissions and

a service lifecycle workflow engine enabling. All services together constitute a core part of an on-premise private cloud platform for all business applications , including IT/OT critical applications required for maintaining and operating the grid.

For the whole product portfolio, the product line owns the complete product flow, from product management, architecture, delivery up until Tier 3 operations.

CI/CD and Operational Readiness

Objective: Support on CI/CD pipelines and ensure operational readiness for deployments

Tasks:

• Validation of deployment artifacts from an operations perspective.

• Defining and enforcing quality assurance measures (e.g. required documentation of standard operation procedures,

successful test reports, …) to ensure the high quality of delivered products and services.

• Ensuring rollback strategies and operational monitoring (observability) are in place for production deployments.

Monitoring, Incident, Problem and Change Management

Objective: Ensure operational stability and responsiveness

Tasks:

• Monitoring system health, performance metrics, and service availability across multi-tenant environments.

• Identifying, analyzing, and resolving incidents, minimizing service disruption.

• Triggering root cause analysis and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.

Automation of operations critical standard processes following established software development lifecyles

Objective: Reduce operational toil and improve service reliability

Tasks:

• Address recurring operational issues by automating remedial standard operations processes

• Validate all automated procedures following the established software development lifecycle including staging, testing,

and validation reviews

Security and Compliance Enforcement

Objective: Ensure platform operations adhere to security and compliance standards

Tasks:

• Implementing monitoring and logging strategies to support audit and compliance requirements.

• Performing routine security scans and remediating identified vulnerabilities.

Profile Requirements

Must-have experience

• At least of 3 years of operational experience with self-managed Kubernetes clusters, self-managed services providing

Kubernetes clusters and productive applications or systems in on premise environments

• Deep understanding of networking concepts, including protocols, load balancing, and security.

• Profound knowledge and implementation experience with CI/CD processes, tooling (e.g. GitLab, Jenkins, Tekton,

Argo Workflows, and Argo CD), concepts and associated quality and security assurance for software delivery

• Fundamental understanding of core operations processes (incident management, change management, problem

management, IT Service Management) as well as SRE concepts

• Experience in gathering operational insights from monitoring or observability including SLI/SLA/SLO management

and tracking.

• Hand-on experience in documenting procedures properly and enforcing clear runbooks or playbooks.

• Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

Must-have language skills:

• Proficiency in both speech and writing in English (at least C1).

Preferred experience

• Project experience in software engineering (in Go Lang, C/C++ or Python) with significant experience in building

RESTful services in distributed environments.