Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps) - OpenShift

About the role

A financial client is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps) to join its Basel-based team in a permanent position. The engineer is responsible for the architecture, development and operational maintenance of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, working closely with the teams behind strategic projects and supporting incident management and change requests.

Key responsibilities

• Operate the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environments and the surrounding systems
• Design and implement enhancements to the existing environments
• Build solutions focused on operational improvements and project requirements
• Carry out system engineering activities with the team
• Provide second-level support within the existing support organisation
• Be a member of the on-call organisation

Required profile

• University degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics or equivalent professional experience with further education
• 3 years of practical experience in automation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a hands-on approach
• Fluent English; German is a plus

Required skills

• Automation tools such as Ansible, Helm, Kustomize and Terraform
• Kubernetes clusters on Red Hat OpenShift (SDN, service mesh, security)
• Solid Linux skills, preferably RHEL/CentOS, including scripting