Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/x)

We love technology. We love journalism. Convinced that these two belong together, we are now developing the media of the future here at BurdaForward . With leading publishing brands such as Focus Online, Chip, TV Spielfilm, Bunte.de, Finanzen100, The Weather Channel or Fit For Fun we reach millions of people every day. Our digital services are innovative and technologically state-of-the-art. They enable us to provide reliable, up-to-date information, entertain accurately, and support our users with advice and assistance. We focus on solutions and are a driving force in public debate— also out of tradition: Because BurdaForward is part of the family company Hubert Burda Media.

Munich, Berlin, full time, permanent,

What you can expect from us...

• Complete, extend, and maintain our central Kubernetes platform that serves development teams throughout the organization
• Implement security policies, disaster recovery strategies and guardrails across the platform
• Design and implement cloud-agnostic solutions supporting our multi-cloud strategy
• Support development teams with onboarding and migration efforts
• Create documentation and runbooks to support platform adoption and troubleshooting
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment systems, and automation frameworks
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across cloud providers

What we would expect from you...

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps Engineer with a focus on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes including multi-tenancy, RBAC, networking, and cluster operations
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies, with extensive AWS experience
• Extensive knowledge about Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform/Tofu, Terragrunt and Crossplane
• Experience with GitOps workflows and tools like ArgoCD or Flux
• Solid programming and scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go
• Passion for developer experience and building self-service platforms that enable engineering teams
• Experience migrating from proprietary services to open-source alternatives is a plus
• Strong problem-solving skills, collaborative mindset, and ability to work autonomously in an agile team

What we can offer you...

• Great creative freedom within the secure background of a broad-based successful company, enabling you to pursue ambitious entrepreneurship, interdisciplinary networking and bold innovations
• A wide range of benefits, such as subsidized meals at work, company pension allowance, bicycle leasing program, company health management, discounts at gyms, sabbaticals, exclusive employee discounts and much more
• Free magazines and discounts on magazine subscriptions and over 300 brands in areas such as technology, fashion, sport and culture
• Personal and professional development through a wide range of internal and external training opportunities and coaching
• We take responsibility, contribute to the well-being of our society with our foundations and support you in your passion project with initiatives such as "Burda moves"
• 30 days of vacation, flexible working hours & work locations (by arrangement), up to 20 days of workation in other EU countries for your ideal work-life balance
• Our employees are important to us: we offer you a permanent employment contract and encourage internal transfers
• A smartphone and laptop for professional and private use

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