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# (Senior) Cloud Engineer / Kubernetes Platform Security - STACKIT

- **Company:** Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG
- **Location:** Heilbronn, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Audit Trail, User Authentication, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Computer Networks, Linux, Linux Servers, OpenID, Role-Based Access Control, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Software Engineering, Policy as Code, Selinux, Kubernetes, Vulnerability Analysis
- **Published:** July 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=90f3b19c76b4234e

## About the Role

* You have several years of experience in operating Linux servers and Kubernetes clusters.
 * You have several years of experience in software development (ideally Go), and ideally, you have already developed Kubernetes Operators.
 * You have a strong awareness of security aspects, and you enjoy challenging existing security concepts and designing and implementing architectures.
 * You have extensive experience with authentication (OIDC, SAML) and authorization (RBAC, ReBAC) protocols, as well as hardening in the Kubernetes and Linux (AppArmor, SELinux, Seccomp, eBPF) context.

## Description

Join us and contribute to digital sovereignty in Europe. With us, you will work at the intersection of agility and security: You will benefit from fast decision-making processes, enjoy genuine creative freedom in your projects, and be able to build upon the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group., * Together with your SKE Security Crew, you drive the development and implementation of new security-relevant features for the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE).

 * You develop comprehensive security policies for Kubernetes clusters, including RBAC, Admission Controllers, Network Policies, and Policy-as-Code solutions like Kyverno.
 * You implement security measures such as Pod Security Standards, Image Scanning, Audit Logging, and Runtime Security Monitoring with Falco.
 * You act as an interface to the Cyber Security Team to implement security-relevant requirements.
 * You automate and implement processes to ensure security compliance, such as regular security audits and vulnerability scans.


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