Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Hybrid Cloud)

Location: Basel, Basel City, Switzerland

Department: Switzerland

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure & Operations team. In this role, you will be responsible for the engineering, operation, automation, and continuous improvement of the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform supporting mission-critical workloads across hybrid cloud environments.

You will combine platform operations with project delivery, helping to modernize infrastructure through automation, DevOps practices, and cloud-native technologies while ensuring the highest standards of security, resilience, compliance, and operational excellence.

This position requires a highly skilled infrastructure engineer with deep expertise in container platforms, Linux, infrastructure automation, and enterprise platform engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Operations

• Operate, maintain, and continuously improve the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform.
• Ensure platform stability, scalability, security, and performance across hybrid cloud environments.
• Perform complete platform lifecycle management including installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Participate in a rotating on-call support schedule within a four-person team.

Kubernetes & Container Platform

• Design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Manage networking, storage, security, and cluster services.
• Develop reusable container platform standards, templates, and base images.
• Support business application teams in adopting cloud-native technologies and containerized workloads.
• Provide architectural guidance for high availability, disaster recovery, and workload resilience.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Build reusable automation frameworks using Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps methodologies.
• Improve operational efficiency through scripting and automation.
• Standardize platform configuration management and orchestration.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Design and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines into infrastructure deployment processes.
• Promote DevOps best practices across infrastructure and application delivery teams.
• Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to enable automated application deployment.

Platform Security & Resilience

• Integrate security scanning, compliance controls, and observability into the platform.
• Ensure alignment with Bank security standards, governance, and change management processes.
• Design resilient platform architectures supporting disaster recovery and business continuity.

Technology Strategy & Innovation

• Contribute to the Bank’s hybrid cloud strategy and platform roadmap.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements.
• Drive automation initiatives across the infrastructure landscape.
• Promote engineering best practices and continuous improvement.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Storage, Cloud, and Application Development teams.
• Support development teams building cloud-native, serverless, and containerized applications.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

Qualifications

Required

• Minimum 5 years of experience in OpenShift/Kubernetes platform engineering within enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux administration, container technologies, and hybrid cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience with OVN-K, Ceph/CSI, Quay, Argo CD/GitOps, Velero, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Proficiency in Bash, Python, and Go scripting.
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, CI/CD, Git, and DevOps practices.
• Strong understanding of automation, platform lifecycle management, and cloud-native technologies.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred

• Experience with data centre infrastructure, networking, virtualization, and public cloud integration.
• Knowledge of OAuth, token-based authentication, and REST API integrations.
• Experience working in Agile environments and contributing to technology strategy and platform modernization.