Platform Engineer Public Cloud & Platform-as-a-Service

LBBW is one of Germany's leading banks and an innovative, international and sustainable company in the financial sector. We are a reliable bank and know what it means to change. Digitalization, agility and efficiency are not just buzzwords for us, but constant companions of our own development. Because only those who change themselves understand what it takes. We offer an environment that promotes personal and professional development. With over 10,000 employees we shape the future of the financial world – Together #CreatingNew. The perspectives and opportunities in LBBW IT are diverse and cover all areas of a modern IT setup. In our organizational unit we are responsible for the construction, operation and technological further development of an internal cloud platform for LBBW applications. The goal is to provide application teams with a secure, auditable and regulatorily compliant platform that can be used via standardized landing zones, Kubernetes environments and self-service paths. For the further development of our Public Cloud and Platform-as-a-Service solution we are looking for reinforcement. The focus is on the expansion of a scalable product platform that supports internal customers in the fast, secure and efficient operation of their applications.

Further development and operation of landing zones based on Infrastructure as Code, especially with Terraform or comparable technologies Conception, modularization, versioning and automated provisioning of cloud infrastructure via CI/CD pipelines Operation, hardening and continuous further development of Kubernetes environments, particularly regarding cluster lifecycle, upgrades, ingress, service mesh, RBAC and policy enforcement Expansion of the observability offering for application teams, including metrics, traces, dashboards and standardized operational information Development and further development of self-service paths for efficient provisioning of platform services Anchoring of security, compliance and regulatory requirements in the platform architecture and operational processes Responsibility for patch and upgrade cycles as well as maintenance and further development of the infrastructure-as-code inventory with regard to new provider, platform and Kubernetes versions Advising application teams on cloud design, particularly on network connectivity, operational capability, cost optimization, security and scalability Close cooperation with internal customers, architecture, security, infrastructure and operations units as well as external partners and vendors Participation in the strategic further development of the internal cloud platform into a standardized, product-oriented platform offering

Sound practical experience in building and operating cloud infrastructures, ideally with Microsoft Azure; experience with AWS or Google Cloud Platform also welcome Very good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi or Bicep, and a good understanding of modularization, state management, reusability and automated deployment Solid practical experience with Kubernetes in ongoing operation, especially workloads, networking, RBAC, troubleshooting, cluster lifecycle and upgrades Experience in the use and operation of CI/CD tools, e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines or Jenkins Knowledge in the area of observability, e.g. Grafana, OpenTelemetry or Prometheus Confident handling of YAML and understanding of typical challenges such as templating, merge behavior and quoting Understanding of security, compliance and operational requirements in regulated IT environments Knowledge of scripting languages, especially Bash and/or Python, is an advantage Experience with Backstage.io, TypeScript, Ansible, Helm, service mesh technologies such as Istio or other platform components is desirable Certifications such as HashiCorp Terraform Associate, CKA, CKAD, CKS, Microsoft AZ-104, AZ-400 or LPIC are an advantage but not a prerequisite Structured, independent and solution-oriented way of working with a keen eye for priorities Strong analytical and conceptual skills and enjoyment in actively shaping technological platform topics Strong communication skills, teamwork and enjoyment in working with internal customers, stakeholders and external partners Negotiation-proof German skills (C1) spoken and written as well as very good English skills (C1)