Kubernetes Platform Engineer — Hybrid in Helsinki

Verda; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Lunch stipend

Wellbeing

Equity

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Verda in Helsinki seeks an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to build, operate, and harden self-hosted Kubernetes platforms. You will own deployment, automation, scaling, upgrades, and production operations, ensuring reliability through on‑call incident management.

You will collaborate with engineers to improve deployment processes, observability, and platform services, employing Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows while maintaining Linux systems and security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating production Kubernetes environments.
• Experience managing self-hosted Kubernetes clusters end-to-end.
• Hands-on Kubernetes operations, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• On-call rotations and production incident management experience.
• Infrastructure automation using Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows.
• Solid Linux administration and debugging skills.
• Experience with containerized and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Understanding of Kubernetes networking, CNI plugins, and security.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve self-hosted Kubernetes platforms across deployment, automation, scaling, upgrades, and production operations.
• Maintain platform reliability through on-call participation, incident response, and troubleshooting.
• Manage Kubernetes infrastructure including networking, observability, storage, and platform services.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience, deployment processes, and operational efficiency.
• Operate and troubleshoot Linux systems, container platforms, and distributed infrastructure.
• Implement Kubernetes networking and security best practices, including cluster hardening and access controls.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve automation, operations, and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to platform standards, documentation, and operational best practices.

Skills

Kubernetes administration

Linux

Ansible

GitOps

CI/CD

Python/Bash/Go

AI-powered tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Verda in Helsinki seeks an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to build, operate, and harden self-hosted Kubernetes platforms. You will own deployment, automation, scaling, upgrades, and production operations, ensuring reliability through on‑call incident management.

You will collaborate with engineers to improve deployment processes, observability, and platform services, employing Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows while maintaining Linux systems and security.