Platform Ops Engineer

Jobtailor; Molsheim; Sur place; EUR 38 000 - 54 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Jobtailor in Molsheim, France, seeks a hands-on Platform Operations Engineer who balances service ownership with a strong technical focus. You will run DFL services—Kafka, Apache Hop, Dremio, Iceberg, and hosting—on Kubernetes, ensuring stability, performance and high availability.

You will handle incident, problem and change management within ITIL guidance; participate in root cause analyses, write runbooks, and contribute to automated, standardized processes and platform conventions.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Business IT, Data Engineering or equivalent; recent graduates welcome.
• Interest in reliability, automation and technical standards.
• Experience with distributed systems and platform operations is a plus.
• Strong communication in French and English; German is advantageous.

Responsabilités

• Run operations for DFL services on Kubernetes with emphasis on stability and high availability.
• Participate in incident resolution, root cause analysis and ITIL-aligned change management.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, alerts, and dashboards; support capacity planning and performance investigations.
• Create and improve runbooks and technical standards; contribute to platform conventions (RBAC, secrets, backup/restore).
• Assist business and product teams; optimize onboarding and run workshops to promote compliant platform usage.

Connaissances

Reliability focus

Automation

Observability

Stakeholder communication

Team player

Autonomy

Technical curiosity

Problem solving

French/English proficiency

Formation

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Outils

Kubernetes

Kafka

Apache Hop

Dremio

Iceberg

Description du poste

Responsibilities

• The role combines service ownership with a strong technical focus.
• Run operations for DFL services: ensure the stability, performance and high availability of services (Kafka, Apache Hop, Dremio, Iceberg, Application Hosting) on Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability and optimization.
• Incident, problem and change management: actively participate in incident resolution, root cause analysis and change management, ensuring structured communication and sustainable corrective actions, in accordance with the ITIL framework.
• Vendor management for run operations.
• Observability and performance optimization: develop and maintain monitoring, logging, alerts and dashboards. Support capacity analyses, throughput/latency investigations and resource planning.
• Automation and standardization: create and improve runbooks, technical standards and reusable processes. Automate recurring tasks (templates, checks, onboarding) and contribute to platform conventions (RBAC, secrets, backup/restore).
• Support and advise internal users of the platform: act as the point of contact for business and product teams; advise on use cases, optimize onboarding processes (access, documentation) and run workshops to promote effective and compliant platform usage.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Business IT, Data Engineering or equivalent qualification — recent graduates are welcome.
• Basic understanding of platform operations and distributed systems, with an interest in reliability, automation and technical standards.
• Practical experience in several of the following areas:
• Kubernetes (deployments, services, resources, basic troubleshooting)
• Kafka / event streaming (producer/consumer, partitions, consumer groups, basics of offsets/lag)
• Data pipelines / ETL (Apache Hop or equivalent)
• Monitoring/logging/alerting (fundamentals of metrics, dashboards, alerting concepts)
• Linux / networking fundamentals
• Basic security in operations (secrets, certificates, access rights)
• Team player with autonomy and the ability to explain technical topics clearly.
• Ability to build and maintain constructive working relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Professional working proficiency in French and English (reading, writing, speaking). German is a real advantage.