Senior OpenShift & Kubernetes Platform Engineer

avacone Switzerland; Basel; Vor Ort; CHF 140.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

avacone Switzerland seeks an experienced Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Platform Engineer to join the Infrastructure & Operations team in Basel. You will own engineering, operation, automation, and continuous improvement of the Bank's OpenShift and Kubernetes platform across hybrid clouds.

You will blend platform operations with project delivery, driving automation, DevOps practices, and cloud-native technologies while upholding security, resilience, and governance standards.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum 5 years of experience in OpenShift/Kubernetes platform engineering within enterprise environments.

Aufgaben

• Operate, maintain, and continuously improve the Bank's enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform.
• Ensure platform stability, scalability, security, and performance across hybrid cloud environments.
• Perform complete platform lifecycle management including installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Participate in a rotating on-call support schedule within a four-person team.
• Design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Manage networking, storage, security, and cluster services.
• Develop reusable container platform standards, templates, and base images.
• Support business application teams in adopting cloud-native technologies and containerized workloads.
• Provide architectural guidance for high availability, disaster recovery, and workload resilience.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Build reusable automation frameworks using Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps methodologies.
• Improve operational efficiency through scripting and automation.
• Standardize platform configuration management and orchestration.
• Design and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines into infrastructure deployment processes.
• Promote DevOps best practices across infrastructure and application delivery teams.
• Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to enable automated application deployment.
• Integrate security scanning, compliance controls, and observability into the platform.
• Ensure alignment with Bank security standards, governance, and change management processes.
• Design resilient platform architectures supporting disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Contribute to the Bank's hybrid cloud strategy and platform roadmap.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements.
• Drive automation initiatives across the infrastructure landscape.
• Promote engineering best practices and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Storage, Cloud, and Application Development teams.
• Support development teams building cloud-native, serverless, and containerized applications.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Kenntnisse

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux administration

Container technologies

Hybrid cloud

Bash

Python

Go

Tools

Argo CD

Terraform

Ansible

Ceph/CSI

OVN-K

Quay

Velero

Jobbeschreibung

avacone Switzerland seeks an experienced Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Platform Engineer to join the Infrastructure & Operations team in Basel. You will own engineering, operation, automation, and continuous improvement of the Bank's OpenShift and Kubernetes platform across hybrid clouds.

You will blend platform operations with project delivery, driving automation, DevOps practices, and cloud-native technologies while upholding security, resilience, and governance standards.