Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A cloud-native infrastructure role focused on engineering and optimizing Kubernetes control planes, building highly available etcd clusters, orchestrating multiple clusters, and automating software delivery in air-gapped environments. The position also involves secure identity and privileged-access automation and work across diverse cloud environments.
Highlights
Work on advanced cloud-native infrastructure across public, private, and sovereign cloud environments, with significant focus on Kubernetes engineering, automation, high availability, multi-cluster management, and secure software delivery.
Description
Position Overview
The Cloud Native & Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and automating core cloud-native infrastructure components across public, private, and sovereign cloud environments.
This role focuses on Kubernetes control plane development, multi-cluster orchestration, automated software delivery pipelines for Air-Gap environments, and Identity & Access Management (IAM/PAM) automation using the Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM).
Key Responsibilities
● Control Plane Engineering: Develop, harden, and optimize Kubernetes Control Plane components (kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler) and etcd key-value clusters for high availability and performance.
● Multi-Cluster Orchestration: Build and maintain multi-cluster management platforms using SAP Gardener (Shoot/Seed cluster management, extensions, providers) and Cluster API (CAPI).
● Air-Gap Pipeline Engineering: Construct Open Component Model (OCM)-based software delivery pipelines for Air-Gap/disconnected environments, implementing Component Descriptors, OCI transport bundles, SBOM generation, and automated compliance validation.
● State & Sync Management: Implement Core-to-Fog state synchronization mechanisms, inventory reconciliation, and offline data transfer workflows.
● PaaS & IAM/PAM Automation: Automate Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) toolchains using GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Crossplane, KRO).
Technical Qualifications & Skills
● Must Have:
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○ 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes internals, architecture, and operator development (Go, Kubebuilder).
○ Proven experience with multi-cluster management (SAP Gardener, Cluster-API).
○ Hands-on knowledge of software supply chain tooling (OCM CLI, OCI Registries, Harbor, SBOM SPDX/CycloneDX).
○ Experience with GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Flux, Crossplane, Terraform, GitLab CI).
○ Proficiency in Go programming, gRPC/Protobuf, Linux administration, and Shell scripting.
● Nice to Have:
○ SAFe / ITIL knowledge, Open Source IAM (Keycloak/Zitadel), Teleport PAM integration.
