Lead Platform Engineer

CloudFerro develops technologies used daily by European leaders in science and the space sector, including ESA, EUMETSAT, ECMWF, Mercator Ocean International, DLR, and EGI. The company focuses on Earth Observation to support analyses and better understanding of our planet. They are building a sovereign European cloud platform from scratch, creating a complete PaaS stack based on Kubernetes and open source technologies, including serverless, managed databases, MLOps, monitoring, and observability.

• Experienced DevOps/SRE engineer with hands-on production Kubernetes infrastructure experience.
• Deep experience with GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), including designing pipelines for multi-product platforms.
• Practical experience with Cluster API for provisioning and managing multiple clusters.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with integration tests, ephemeral environments, and release management.
• Proficient in Go and good knowledge of Python.
• Skilled in AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code and Copilot.

• Own the entire DevOps and maintenance of the PaaS platform.
• Manage cluster lifecycle: provisioning, upgrades, scaling, decommissioning using Cluster API and custom controllers.
• Operate etcd: backup, restore, monitoring, disaster recovery.
• Architect, maintain, and standardize the GitOps pipeline for the entire platform.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines including build pipelines, integration tests on ephemeral clusters, and release management.
• Manage node pools and autoscaling.
• Define deployment and rollback standards for all services.
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical platform incidents.