Senior Platform DevOps Engineer – Observability & Platform Integration

We are an infrastructure platform engineering team providing core services that enable DevOps practices across the organization. The team is agile, consisting of around 8 members from various countries. The company offers a dynamic, global team setting within the Helvetia Baloise Group, focusing on shaping the future of insurance.

• Strong platform engineering and DevOps expertise.
• Experience with observability platforms: Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, Tempo, OTLP/OpenTelemetry, telemetry architecture and monitoring concepts.
• Experience with container platforms: OpenShift, Azure DevOps, and Azure platform integrations.
• Knowledge of cloud and automation: AWS, Azure, Terraform, authentication, mTLS, and platform service integrations.
• Basic to intermediate software engineering knowledge in Python, Golang, and the Operator Framework.
• Experience and strong preference for GitOps operating practices.
• Solid understanding and experience with certificate use cases and management (including mTLS, certificate monitoring, OAuth re-encryption).

Nice to have:

• Experience administering and troubleshooting Git platforms (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab).
• Familiarity with Hashicorp Vault, External Secrets, JFrog, Nexus, Jenkins, SonarQube, and related DevOps services.
• Knowledge of KEDA, Argo CD, Sealed Secrets, ingress.
• Experience building cost transparency and monitoring dashboard solutions.
• Skills in knowledge transfer, coaching, and apprenticeship support.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Several years of experience in platform engineering, system engineering, or DevOps within agile environments.
• Interest in software and platform architecture.
• Fluent English; German is advantageous.

• Further development and operation of the enterprise observability platform including Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, Thanos, and related integrations.
• Ownership of critical monitoring and telemetry capabilities including migration concepts, telemetry onboarding, troubleshooting, and enterprise monitoring standards.
• Implementation and support of platform integrations for Kubernetes, virtual machines, automation workflows, and cloud environments.
• Development and operation of DevOps platform services such as CI/CD tooling, secrets management, artifact repositories, and deployment automation.
• Contribution to AWS- and Azure-based platform services, GitOps practices and multi-cluster OpenShift environments.
• Support for platform engineering knowledge sharing and technical onboarding.