Senior Cloud Engineer (m/f/x)

Dynatrace; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 74.000 - 92.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Dynatrace is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer in Austria to join the Platform Infrastructure team, focusing on container networking and Istio service mesh on our Kubernetes platform. You will automate DNS and certificate management, implement mTLS and traffic policies, and drive load balancing via Gateway API and cloud ingress, collaborating with cloud providers and product teams.

This role emphasizes developer-friendly Kubernetes work, CI/CD automation with ArgoCD/Jenkins, and

Qualifikationen

• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes networking and microservice architecture.
• Developer-oriented Kubernetes networking experience (Services, Ingress/Gateway API, NetworkPolicies).
• Experience with certificate management and DNS management.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps workflows.

Aufgaben

• Deploy, operate, and maintain core application networking components on Kubernetes.
• Design and enforce mTLS policies and traffic management rules within the service mesh.
• Manage rollout and migration of workloads between Istio sidecar and Ambient Mesh mode.
• Automate DNS and certificate lifecycle across cloud providers.
• Configure load balancing using Gateway API and cloud-native ingress solutions.
• Automate deployments with CI/CD and GitOps (ArgoCD/Jenkins).
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to ensure secure, observable service-to-service communication.
• Work with AWS/Azure/GCP to ensure resilient networking across environments.
• Participate in troubleshooting and incident resolution for networking services.
• Improve service monitoring and observability for mesh components.

Kenntnisse

Kubernetes networking

Service mesh (Istio)

mTLS & traffic policies

DNS & certificate management

CI/CD & GitOps (ArgoCD/Jenkins)

Cloud networking (AWS/Azure/GCP)

TLS/PKI concepts

Kubernetes Operators basics

Terraform/OpenTofu

Observability & monitoring

Tools

ArgoCD

ArgoWF

Jenkins

Terraform/OpenTofu

External Secrets Operator

Kyverno

Jobbeschreibung

# Senior Cloud Engineer (m/f/x)## **Your role at Dynatrace**Our team builds and maintains the foundational infrastructure services used across the Dynatrace Platform.We're looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our Platform Infrastructure team with a focus on Application Networking. You will be working with service mesh technologies, DNS automation, certificate management, and application load balancing to deliver a secure, observable, and resilient connectivity layer for our Kubernetes-based platform — at scale.This role is perfect for someone who enjoys developer-side Kubernetes work, designing Istio service mesh policies, automating certificate lifecycles, and shaping how internal and external traffic flows across our platform.## **Your Responsibilities*** Deploy, operate, and maintain core application networking components on Kubernetes (Istio, LoadBalancer, External-DNS, cert-manager).* Design and enforce mTLS policies, traffic management rules, and authorization policies within the service mesh.* Manage the rollout and migration of workloads from Istio sidecar to Ambient Mesh mode.* Automate DNS record lifecycle across cloud providers using External-DNS.* Own certificate lifecycle management and PKI integration via cert-manager.* Configure and maintain application load balancing using Kubernetes Gateway API and cloud-native ingress solutions.* Automate deployments using CI/CD and GitOps principles (ArgoCD, ArgoWF, Jenkins).* Collaborate with platform and product teams to provide secure, reliable, and observable service-to-service communication.* Work with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) to ensure resilient networking across environments.* Participate in troubleshooting and incident resolution for networking and connectivity services.* Continuously improve service monitoring and observability for mesh and networking components.## **What will help you succeed****Must Haves:*** Deep knowledge and proven hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking and micro service architecture.* Developer-oriented Kubernetes networking knowledge (Services, Ingress/Gateway API, NetworkPolicies).* Experience with certificate management and DNS management.* Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps workflows.* Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP networking (at least one — VPC, load balancers, DNS, private connectivity).* Solid understanding of TLS/PKI concepts (certificate issuance, rotation, trust chains).* Basic understanding of Kubernetes Operators principles (CRD, Reconciliation)* Terraform/OpenTofu experience for cloud networking resources (infrastructure currently partly managed this way — migrating towards more operators)**Nice-to-have:*** Monitoring & observability experience for service mesh.* Experience with any of these technologies: Kafka, PostgreSQL, Vault, RabbitMQ, Redis, External Secrets Operator (ESO) or Kyverno.## **Why you will love being a Dynatracer*** Dynatrace is a leader in unified observability and security.* We provide a culture of excellence with competitive compensation packages designed to recognize and reward performance.* Our employees work with the largest cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, and other leading partners worldwide to create strategic alliances.* You'll get to work at the forefront of innovation with Dynatrace Intelligence—the industry's first agentic operations system. Bringing together deterministic and agentic AI, it helps teams understand what's happening, why it matters, and what to do next— automatically.* Over 50% of the Fortune 100 companies are current customers of Dynatrace.## **Compensation and Rewards*** Due to legal reasons, we are obliged to list a salary range for this position, which is € 74,000 up to € 92,000 gross per year based on full-time employment (38.5 h/week). We’ve listed the salary range for transparency, but if your experience and skills bring unique value, we’d still love to hear from you, please apply even if you’re outside the range.