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# Cloud Native & Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Propertyvalue
- **Location:** Koln, Germany
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Bash Shell, Common ISDN Application Programming Interface (CAPI), Cloud Foundry, Computer Programming, Data Transmissions, Protocol Buffers, Identity and Access Management, Linux System Administration, Network Control, Open Source Technology, Platform as a Service (PAAS), SAP (Applications), Okta, System Availability, Delivery Pipeline, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Terraform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Grpc
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobfinder.de/job/platform-engineer/

## About the Role

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Crossplane, KRO).

 

Technical Qualifications & Skills

 

\* Must Have:

 

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\* 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes internals, architecture, and operator

 

development (Go, Kubebuilder).

 

\* Proven experience with multi-cluster management (SAP Gardener, Cluster-API).

 

\* Hands-on knowledge of software supply chain tooling (OCM CLI, OCI Registries,

 

Harbor, SBOM SPDX/CycloneDX).

 

\* Experience with GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD,

 

Flux, Crossplane, Terraform, GitLab CI).

 

\* Proficiency in Go programming, gRPC/Protobuf, Linux administration, and Shell

 

scripting.

 

\* Nice to Have:

 

\* SAFe / ITIL knowledge, Open Source IAM (Keycloak/Zitadel), Teleport PAM

 

integration.

 

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## Description

Plane Engineering: Develop, harden, and optimize Kubernetes Control Plane

 

components (kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler) and etcd

 

key-value clusters for high availability and performance.

 

\* Multi-Cluster Orchestration: Build and maintain multi-cluster management platforms

 

using SAP Gardener (Shoot/Seed cluster management, extensions, providers) and

 

Cluster API (CAPI).

 

\* Air-Gap Pipeline Engineering: Construct Open Component Model (OCM)-based

 

software delivery pipelines for Air-Gap/disconnected environments, implementing

 

Component Descriptors, OCI transport bundles, SBOM generation, and automated

 

compliance validation.

 

\* State & Sync Management: Implement Core-to-Fog state synchronization mechanisms,

 

inventory reconciliation, and offline data transfer workflows.

 

\* PaaS & IAM/PAM Automation: Automate Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) toolchains

 

using GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and




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