Platform Engineer with Azure

What awaits you

- Being a passionate Platform engineer, you care about defining tech stack for business applications together with our team of software architects

- Build and evolve a cloud-native platform running on Azure, serving multiple product teams

- Design and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure

- Develop and extend the platform operator - a custom Kubernetes operator that manages application lifecycle, status reporting, error handling, and reconciliation logic

- Author and maintain Helm charts and Terraform modules for provisioning Azure resources

- Work on the sidecar architecture - configure routing, CORS, proxy ports, path rewrites, external service integration, and direct responses

- Contribute and operate to the authentication and authorization layer

- Contribute and maintain the observability stack, Grafana-based

- Maintain and extend Azure resource modules and Azure Storage Account provisioning

- Develop and improve the App Catalog - an internal service registry with frontend and backend components, statistics, mail notifications, and automated update jobs

- Enable and maintain schema-driven configuration handbooks, onboarding automation, and application scaffolding

- Contribute to technical documentation, knowledge sharing sessions, and platform-wide improvements across multiple product teams

- Working in an Agile team using Scrum methodology and their derivatives (SaFE, LeSS)
Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and other Agile/Scrum ceremonies to ensure high-quality deliverables and on-time project completion

- End-to-end responsibility for application development

- Stay updated with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices to continuously improve skills and contribute to the team's success

What should you bring along

- University Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business or a related field

- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a similar role is required

- Advanced knowledge of OOP, Algorithms & Data Structures

- Solid experience with Kubernetes

- Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services, particularly:

- Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server (including backup/restore strategies)

- Azure Storage Accounts

- Azure resource provisioning and management across multiple environments

- Strong proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code

- Experience with Helm charts

- Solid understanding of GitOps principles and deployment workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux, or GitHub Actions-based GitOps)

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions

- Good understanding of networking and proxy configuration

- Experience with authentication and authorization flows

- Familiarity with observability and telemetry*stacks: Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo

- Nice to have:

- Experience in development with Java SE 17+

- Experience with operator patterns in Kubernetes (custom controllers, reconciliation logic, error handling)

- Good understanding of software design principles, design patterns, and best practices

- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

- Excellent English verbal and written skills

- German communication skills will be a plus