Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- 81.000 to 103.000€ gross/year
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you design scalable platform solutions, optimize automation strategies, and lead architecture workshops to support teams in utilizing cloud-native technologies while ensuring security and compliance.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- You thrive in building the backbone of modern software development and internal developer platforms.
- You create smooth, automated, and scalable developer experiences by designing robust platforms, streamlining pipelines, and optimizing delivery processes.
- If you love solving infrastructure challenges, enabling development teams, and shaping the way software is delivered—this is for you.
- Architecture & Design: End-to-end ownership of design, implementation, and security of scalable platform solutions.
- Technical Leadership: Define reference architectures, module catalogs, and paved-road templates, guiding engineering teams in deploying and operating cloud-native platforms.
- Client Consulting: Lead client workshops and architecture discussions, driving best practices and state-of-the-art approaches.
- Platform Automation: Design and implement advanced automation strategies for multi-team and multi-cloud environments.
- Security & Reliability: Ensure compliance, security, and high availability for enterprise-scale platforms.
- Community Engagement: Drive thought leadership by contributing to meetups, conferences, and internal knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Ownership: Manage platform domains across multiple teams, supporting the entire product organization.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Advanced Kubernetes: Ability to design and manage complex Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters in enterprise environments.
- GitOps: Deep understanding of GitOps principles and the ability to design and implement robust, version-controlled infrastructure workflows utilizing tools such as ArgoCD and Flux.
- CI/CD & Security: Expertise in supply-chain hardening, and securing automated deployment pipelines.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Ability to coach and mentor engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
- Strategic Thinking: Outcome-oriented, client-focused, hands-on, and always anticipating technical challenges that jeopardize project outcomes.
- AI-native: You actively use AI-powered tools (e.g., code assistants, LLM-based workflows) to amplify your productivity and quality, or you're eager to start.
- Communication: Ability to break down complex topics and explain them in a clear and easy-to-understand way that makes sense to both engineers and clients.
- Languages: Fluent in English and German is a must
Experience
- Praktische Erfahrung mit verschiedenen Kubernetes Operators.
- Infrastructure as Code: Proven hands-on experience with multiple IaC frameworks, such as Terraform, Pulumi or Crossplane to build scalable, reusable, and maintainable infrastructure components.
- Nice-to-Have: Multi-Cloud Experience (AWS, GCP, Azure or hybrid environments), programming skills (Python, Golang or Rust), FinOps experience (cost allocation and optimization, Karpenter).
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What we offer
- Ownership & Responsibility: at SQUER, we believe in empowering our team.
- In our flat hierarchies, your ideas and actions matter more than titles.
- Take the reins, make an impact and grow with us.
- Learn & Grow: Tap into a € 5,000 annual training budget to sharpen your skills and take advantage of our in-house Leadership Academy.
- Join and be part of our active tech community through meetups, hackathons and training sessions.
- Get up to 40 hours per year of additional time off for your personal education.
- Exciting Challenges & Real Impact: Dive into diverse projects where your work truly makes a difference – for our clients and for SQUER.
- Flexibility for Performance: Benefit from hybrid work options, flexible hours, workations within the EU, and additional vacation days – giving you the freedom to perform at your best.
- Tailored Tools for Success: Choose your preferred hardware configuration and leverage our suite of AI tools and licenses (Anthropic, OpenAI, and more) to suit your working style.
- We Value You: Beyond perks and benefits, we offer a competitive annual salary to recognize your exceptional contributions.
- Be Part of a Thriving Team Culture: At SQUER, collaboration and connection are at the heart of what we do.
- Through open communication, shared successes, and meaningful team events – including our annual SQUER offsite – we cultivate a culture where everyone feels valued and inspired to grow together.
- A Perks-Packed Workplace: Work in a central office near Ostbahnhof and enjoy meal vouchers, EGYM Wellpass membership, a free Deutschland-Ticket, JobRad, referral bonuses, Corporate Benefits, and Pluxee employee gifts for special occasions.
- We believe in transparent and fair compensation.
- For this role, the annual gross salary ranges between € 81,000 and € 103,000 – the exact placement depends on the seniority level we assess together during the process.
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Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
- 🏝Extra Holidays
- ⏸Educational Leave/Sabbatical
- 🏖️Workation
- 🏠Home Office
- ⏰Flexible Working Hours
- 🚌Excellent Traffic Connections
- 🐕Animals Welcome
- 🕺No Dresscode
Higher Take-Home Pay
Health, Fitness & Fun
- 🚲Jobbike
- 💰Team Budget for Free Use
- 🏋🏿♂️Fitness Offers
- 🧘♀️Massage, Yoga, etc.
- 🎳Team Events
- 🎮Gaming Room
- 🤫Relaxation Rooms
- ⚽️Tabletop Soccer, etc.
- 👨🏻🎓Mentor Program
Food & Drink
Topics You Will Work On
Job Locations
About Your Employer
SQUER
Wien, München
We are a full-service provider that thinks agile and solves complex problems with technology. The result is efficient software solutions, successful product developments, and a precise agile evolution of our partner businesses.
Description
- Company Size
- 50-249 Employees
- Founding Year
- 2019
- Language
- German, English
- Company Type
- Digital Agency
- Working Model
- Hybrid
- Industry
- Consulting, Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Lead Platform Engineer
- Salary
- 81.000 to 103.000€ gross/yearEstimated net salary based on the gross salary in the job ad using tax class I.48.580 to 59.534 € net/year · Tax class I
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
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