Senior Cloud Engineer

• Deploy, operate, and maintain core application networking components on Kubernetes (Istio, LoadBalancer, External-DNS, cert-manager).
• Design and enforce mTLS policies, traffic management rules, and authorization policies within the service mesh.
• Manage the rollout and migration of workloads from Istio sidecar to Ambient Mesh mode.
• Automate DNS record lifecycle across cloud providers using External-DNS.
• Own certificate lifecycle management and PKI integration via cert-manager.
• Configure and maintain application load balancing using Kubernetes Gateway API and cloud-native ingress solutions.
• Automate deployments using CI/CD and GitOps principles (ArgoCD, ArgoWF, Jenkins).
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to provide secure, reliable, and observable service-to-service communication.
• Work with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) to ensure resilient networking across environments.
• Participate in troubleshooting and incident resolution for networking and connectivity services.
• Continuously improve service monitoring and observability for mesh and networking components.

• Deep knowledge and proven hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking and micro service architecture.
• Developer-oriented Kubernetes networking knowledge (Services, Ingress/Gateway API, NetworkPolicies).
• Experience with certificate management and DNS management.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP networking (at least one - VPC, load balancers, DNS, private connectivity).
• Solid understanding of TLS/PKI concepts (certificate issuance, rotation, trust chains).
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes Operators principles (CRD, Reconciliation)
• Terraform/OpenTofu experience for cloud networking resources (infrastructure currently partly managed this way - migrating towards more operators)

Nice-to-have:

• Monitoring & observability experience for service mesh.
• Experience with any of these technologies: Kafka, PostgreSQL, Vault, RabbitMQ, Redis, External Secrets Operator (ESO) or Kyverno.

• Due to legal reasons, we are obliged to list a salary range for this position, which is € 74,000 up to € 92,000 gross per year based on full-time employment (38.5 h/week). We’ve listed the salary range for transparency, but if your experience and skills bring unique value, we’d still love to hear from you, please apply even if you’re outside the range.

• Dynatrace is a leader in unified observability and security.
• We provide a culture of excellence with competitive compensation packages designed to recognize and reward performance.
• Our employees work with the largest cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, and other leading partners worldwide to create strategic alliances.
• You’ll get to work at the forefront of innovation with Dynatrace Intelligence-the industry’s first agentic operations system. Bringing together deterministic and agentic AI, it helps teams understand what’s happening, why it matters, and what to do next- automatically.
• Over 50% of the Fortune 100 companies are current customers of Dynatrace.