Senior Platform Engineer: Kubernetes, CI/CD & Observability

Vestas; Aarhus kommune; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Vestas is seeking a Senior Platform Engineering Specialist to take deep technical ownership of the Internal Developer Platform and shape its evolution. You’ll lead core capabilities—Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and secrets management—working across domains to ensure reliability and developer productivity.

The role is based in a small, tight-knit team split between Aarhus, Denmark and Porto, Portugal, with a hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of practical experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering in production environments.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, including cluster management, network configuration, RBAC, storage, workload control, and resolving large-scale problems.
• Experience designing, operating, and evolving CI/CD pipelines in large engineering organizations (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
• Extensive infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience running shared platforms that serve large, diverse engineering organisations — including operating with high reliability and low friction for end users.
• Experience with progressive delivery patterns (canary, blue/green, feature flags) and GitOps at scale.
• Familiarity with OPA/Gatekeeper or similar policy enforcement tooling.
• Practical experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with secrets management at scale (Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, external-secrets).

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and long-term technical direction for core platform capabilities — Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, secrets management, and source code hosting
• Manage and deliver complex platform migrations and major technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through production
• Set platform-wide standards and engineering practices and promote their adoption across development teams
• Act as the primary technical authority on platform decisions, balancing reliability, security, and developer experience
• Represent the platform in cross-team architecture forums and align on technical direction with senior engineering stakeholders
• Identify systemic risks and implement proactive platform improvements before they accelerate into incidents
• Mentor and grow mid-level team members through code review, pairing, and architectural discussions

Skills

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Observability

Security mindset

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

Flux

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Vestas is seeking a Senior Platform Engineering Specialist to take deep technical ownership of the Internal Developer Platform and shape its evolution. You’ll lead core capabilities—Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and secrets management—working across domains to ensure reliability and developer productivity.

The role is based in a small, tight-knit team split between Aarhus, Denmark and Porto, Portugal, with a hybrid setup.