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# Principal Platform Engineer (all genders)

- **Company:** Amadeus Group
- **Location:** Herzogenrath, Germany
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, OpenShift, Software Engineering, HybridCloud, Containerization, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=bbc0f4d254c48684

## About the Role

The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on engineer with deep technical expertise and a pragmatic problem-solving mindset. You are comfortable building, testing, automating and improving complex platform capabilities. You bring experience in hybrid cloud environments, Kubernetes/OpenShift, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability and security controls. Software engineering experience is a plus, particularly for developing and maintaining platform-level capabilities and services. You enjoy solving technical challenges and creating solutions that can be reused and adopted by other teams.

## Description

As a Principal Platform Engineer , you will design, build and improve core platform capabilities across cloud, container platforms, automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability and security controls. You will work closely with platform and engineering teams to translate platform strategy into practical, reusable and production-ready capabilities., * Platform Capabilities: Build and improve reusable platform services, modules, templates and engineering blueprints.

 * Hands-on Delivery: Develop prototypes, automation patterns and robust technical solutions for hybrid cloud and container platforms.
 * Cloud-Native Engineering: Support Kubernetes/OpenShift, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, GitOps and platform automation initiatives.
 * Operational Quality: Embed observability, reliability, resilience and maintainability into platform solutions from the beginning.
 * Security and Compliance: Contribute to secure-by-design platform capabilities, policy enforcement and technical guardrails.
 * Engineering Improvement: Reduce manual effort, simplify complex processes and help mature the platform through pragmatic technical improvements.


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