Principal Platform Engineer (f/m/d)

Siemens Digital Industries is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization. Closely, collaborating with partners and customers, we care about the digital transformation in the process and discrete industries. With our Digital Enterprise portfolio, we provide and encourage companies of all sizes with an end-to-end set of products, solutions and services to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain. Meaningful optimization for the specific needs of each industry, our outstanding portfolio supports customers to achieve greater efficiency and flexibility. We are constantly adding innovations to its portfolio to integrate groundbreaking future technologies. We have our global headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and have around 75,000 employees internationally. 

We're seeking a dynamic and seasoned engineer to join our technology and innovation team. This individual will have a pivotal role in designing and creating new technologies by working closely with data scientists, developers, and domain experts.

As a Principle Multi-Cloud Runtime Platform Engineer, you’ll apply specialized knowledge of container, Kubernetes and public/private cloud infrastructure design & operation, to assist with the development and onward operation of a multi-cloud runtime platform supporting Siemens’ Xcelerator SaaS program.    

You’ll be a senior member of a dynamic, cross-functional, geographically dispersed team, ultimately accountable for the technical deliverables of the platform engineering teams comprising a growing team of 25 staff.  Your team comprises subject matters experts from platform architecture, infrastructure engineering, software engineering, DEVOPS, security, networks, firewalls, computing & storage to deliver a global, powerful, scalable, cost efficient, highly available platform that meets the evolving needs of the business.  

You will create and maintain PaaS environments that meet service level agreements; support the resource requirements of the development, QA and customer value realization teams; enable CI/CD; meet ISO27001 & SOC2 standards and produce comprehensive internal and end user documentation.

This position makes significant contributions towards the delivery DevOps solutions that support best-in-class cloud based microservice applications.  Recognized by peers as a strong collaborator.  Must excel in a team environment that changes with new technology adoption and evolving customer requirements.  Has excellent English written and verbal communication skills.