Senior Platform Engineer (m / f / x)

Munich, Berlin, full time, permanent,

What you can expect from us...

• Complete, extend, and maintain our central Kubernetes platform that serves development teams throughout the organization
• Implement security policies, disaster recovery strategies and guardrails across the platform
• Design and implement cloud-agnostic solutions supporting our multi-cloud strategy
• Support development teams with onboarding and migration efforts
• Create documentation and runbooks to support platform adoption and troubleshooting
• Develop and maintain CI / CD pipelines, deployment systems, and automation frameworks
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across cloud providers

What we would expect from you...

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps Engineer with a focus on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes including multi‑tenancy, RBAC, networking, and cluster operations
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies, with extensive AWS experience
• Extensive knowledge about Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform / Tofu, Terragrunt and Crossplane
• Experience with GitOps workflows and tools like ArgoCD or Flux
• Solid programming and scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go
• Passion for developer experience and building self‑service platforms that enable engineering teams
• Experience migrating from proprietary services to open‑source alternatives is a plus
• Strong problem‑solving skills, collaborative mindset, and ability to work autonomously in an agile team

What we can offer you...

• Great creative freedom within the secure background of a broad‑based successful company, enabling you to pursue ambitious entrepreneurship, interdisciplinary networking and bold innovations
• A wide range of benefits, such as subsidized meals at work, company pension allowance, bicycle leasing program, company health management, discounts at gyms, sabbaticals, exclusive employee discounts and much more
• Free magazines and discounts on magazine subscriptions and over 300 brands in areas such as technology, fashion, sport and culture
• Personal and professional development through a wide range of internal and external training opportunities and coaching
• We take responsibility, contribute to the well‑being of our society with our foundations and support you in your passion project with initiatives such as "Burda moves"
• 30 days of vacation, flexible working hours & work locations (by arrangement), up to 20 days of workation in other EU countries for your ideal work‑life balance
• Our employees are important to us : we offer you a permanent employment contract and encourage internal transfers
• A smartphone and laptop for professional and private use

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We respect diversity and we therefore welcome all applications - independently of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion and ideology, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

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