{"id":1035,"date":"2026-09-26T02:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:10:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"senior-platform-engineer-kubernetes-gitops-m-f-d-gridscale-gmbh-b6600","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/africantalents.online\/blog\/poste\/senior-platform-engineer-kubernetes-gitops-m-f-d-gridscale-gmbh-b6600\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Platform Engineer &#8211; Kubernetes &#038; GitOps (m\/f\/d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#333333\">At our company, it\u2019s all about #OneTeam! Join gridscale and help shape the future of the cloud together with OVH.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\">As a leading tech company, we\u2019ve been working for over two decades to reduce our environmental footprint &#8211; with innovative solutions and an open cloud designed to be sustainable from the ground up: #SustainableByDesign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\">As the Cloud Store team, we provide the framework to automate an standardized deployment on top of the OnPrem Cloud Platform. Are you passionate about air-gapped cloud environments and edge technologies? Then you&rsquo;ve come to the right place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height: 1.7em\">\n<h4><strong>Our Tech Stack&nbsp;\ud83d\ude80<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u2022Kubernetes \u2022GitOps \u2022Ansible \u2022Terraform \u2022Prometheus<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Grafana \u2022Linux&nbsp;\u2022OpenStack\u2022Python, Bash &amp; Go<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Your Role\ud83d\udcbb<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\">As a Site Reliability Engineer, you&rsquo;ll be part of a team responsible for building the framework to package and deploy software solutions on top of OPCP. You&rsquo;ll work on the conception, automation, and operation of our platform and drive continuous improvements. You&rsquo;ll help new teams onboard with the framework and OPCP. We&rsquo;re looking for someone who is comfortable in a security-oriented environment with a high degree of automation (GitOps). You are used to maintaining an overview of ambiguous situations, analyzing systems, and making well-founded decisions based on this analysis<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height: 1.7em\">\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#000000\">Your Tasks<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\">Build the framework for building and deploying Cloud Store packages<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\">Drive the ongoing development of our Kubernetes stack and implement GitOps workflows (e.g., with FluxCD)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\">Support other teams and help them onboard with OPCP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\">Actively participate in system analysis and derive improvements, even when initial requirements are unclear<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\">Develop and maintain our Infrastructure as Code using tools like Ansible and Terraform<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\">Participate in an on-call rotation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What we offer you\ud83d\udcbc<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Exceptional team spirit across all departments and national borders; 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