Senior Platform Engineer (m/f)

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key technical and strategic role in shaping the next generation of our RIB 4.0 platform. Building on our existing technology foundations, you will design and evolve a scalable, secure, and reliable container platform based on Docker and Kubernetes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure platform components and DevOps.
• Establish pipelines across multiple environments using Azure DevOps, and GitOps methodologies.
• Architect and optimize Kubernetes (AKS) environments and infrastructure to ensure high availability, performance, and maintainability.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code adoption and standardization (Terraform); establish reusable modules and patterns for consistency and governance.
• Champion platform security, including secrets management, RBAC policies, and compliance automation.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing hands‑on coaching, code reviews, and best practice sharing to elevate team capability.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver robust CI/CD processes, enforce quality gates, and reduce time‑to‑production.
• Establish and refine observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing) to ensure platform reliability and incident response readiness.
• Contribute to strategic planning, roadmap definition, and continuous improvement of platform and DevSecOps maturity.
• Produce and maintain high-quality documentation, architectural runbooks, and knowledge sharing resources.

Requirements

• 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles, with increasing responsibility, seniority and leadership.
• Proven expertise in cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS with a focus on Networking and Security.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, Docker containerization, and DevOps/GitOps deployment strategies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Biceps, ARM templates, …
• Strong understanding of modern CI/CD practices, environment promotion strategies, and testing automation.
• Experience with platform monitoring, distributed tracing, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor or equivalent).
• Experience in leading initiatives, influencing technical direction, and driving cross‑team collaboration.
• Optional: Solid skills in C# and .NET.
• Fluent in English.

Benefits

• A structured start: individual onboarding, newcomer event, organized networking.
• Goodies such as employee discounts, bonuses for weddings, births, anniversaries, Schneider Electric stock ownership, health management, etc., and, depending on location: foosball, dogs allowed.
• Perks that are state‑of‑the‑art: employee events, team events, summer parties, breakfast get‑togethers, free parking spaces.
• Modern working time model: trust‑based working hours, flexible working hours/flexitime, option to work hybrid or remotely (see the information in the job advertisement for details).
• Career development/prospects: team‑ or role‑based development/training, individual development/training, national and international career prospects within the RIB Group or Schneider Electric.
• Opportunities to make an impact and shape the future: our values “IACT” (Impact, Aspiration, Curiosity, Trust) are not just marketing buzzwords, but are lived and breathed by us, proactive sharing of your ideas/approaches/process optimizations within the team, company idea management, active participation in team and management level meetings (“RIB Town Halls”).
• Ways to be sustainable: digital infrastructure, modern equipment, and, depending on your role, an electric car as a company vehicle.

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