# Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Hybrid Cloud)

> Avacone · Basel, Switzerland (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-03

**Workplace:** hybrid

**Department:** Switzerland

## Description

### **Role Overview**

We are seeking an experienced **Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Platform Engineer** to join our Infrastructure & Operations team. In this role, you will be responsible for the engineering, operation, automation, and continuous improvement of the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform supporting mission-critical workloads across hybrid cloud environments.

You will combine platform operations with project delivery, helping to modernize infrastructure through automation, DevOps practices, and cloud-native technologies while ensuring the highest standards of security, resilience, compliance, and operational excellence.

This position requires a highly skilled infrastructure engineer with deep expertise in container platforms, Linux, infrastructure automation, and enterprise platform engineering.

### **Key Responsibilities**

### **Platform Engineering & Operations**

-   Operate, maintain, and continuously improve the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform.
-   Ensure platform stability, scalability, security, and performance across hybrid cloud environments.
-   Perform complete platform lifecycle management including installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and decommissioning.
-   Participate in a rotating on-call support schedule within a four-person team.

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Kubernetes & Container Platform**

-   Design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
-   Manage networking, storage, security, and cluster services.
-   Develop reusable container platform standards, templates, and base images.
-   Support business application teams in adopting cloud-native technologies and containerized workloads.
-   Provide architectural guidance for high availability, disaster recovery, and workload resilience.

### **  
Automation & Infrastructure as Code**

-   Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
-   Build reusable automation frameworks using Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps methodologies.
-   Improve operational efficiency through scripting and automation.
-   Standardize platform configuration management and orchestration.

### **  
DevOps & CI/CD**

-   Design and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
-   Integrate CI/CD pipelines into infrastructure deployment processes.
-   Promote DevOps best practices across infrastructure and application delivery teams.
-   Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to enable automated application deployment.

### **  
Platform Security & Resilience**

-   Integrate security scanning, compliance controls, and observability into the platform.
-   Ensure alignment with Bank security standards, governance, and change management processes.
-   Design resilient platform architectures supporting disaster recovery and business continuity.

### **  
Technology Strategy & Innovation**

-   Contribute to the Bank’s hybrid cloud strategy and platform roadmap.
-   Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements.
-   Drive automation initiatives across the infrastructure landscape.
-   Promote engineering best practices and continuous improvement.

### **  
Collaboration**

-   Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Storage, Cloud, and Application Development teams.
-   Support development teams building cloud-native, serverless, and containerized applications.
-   Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

## Requirements

### **Qualifications**

### **Required**

-   Minimum **5 years of experience** in OpenShift/Kubernetes platform engineering within enterprise environments.
-   Strong expertise in **OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux administration, container technologies, and hybrid cloud platforms**.
-   Hands-on experience with **OVN-K, Ceph/CSI, Quay, Argo CD/GitOps, Velero, Ansible, and Terraform**.
-   Proficiency in **Bash, Python, and Go** scripting.
-   Solid experience with **Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, CI/CD, Git, and DevOps practices**.
-   Strong understanding of automation, platform lifecycle management, and cloud-native technologies.
-   Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

### **  
Preferred**

-   Experience with **data centre infrastructure, networking, virtualization, and public cloud integration**.
-   Knowledge of **OAuth, token-based authentication, and REST API integrations**.
-   Experience working in **Agile environments** and contributing to technology strategy and platform modernization.

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