Senior Container Platform Engineer

“Are you ready to unlock your potential? At Straumann Group we’re on an exciting journey of growth, innovation, and impact - driven by our mission to improve oral health and transform millions of lives worldwide. United by purpose, we bring our best selves to work every day, embracing a high-performance, player-learner culture that inspires collaboration, curiosity, and ambition. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to take charge of your own career, harnessing your skills, passion, and enthusiasm for learning to continually grow and progress. Together, we’re not just shaping brighter smiles, we’re unlocking the potential of people everywhere, including our own.”

About the job

As Senior Container Platform Engineer, you will design, automate, and operate secure, scalable Kubernetes-based platforms across campus, datacenter, and hybrid cloud environments. Working with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Security, Network, Platform Engineering, and application teams, you will help improve developer experience, platform reliability, and operational excellence.

Your Role

You will:

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise container platforms using Kubernetes and related ecosystem tools.
• Define standards for cluster architecture, multi-tenancy, workload isolation, upgrades, capacity, and lifecycle management.
• Implement secure networking, ingress, load balancing, service mesh, DNS, certificate management, and traffic management.
• Build hybrid connectivity across container platforms, cloud services, and on-premises environments.
• Apply Kubernetes security controls, including RBAC, network policies, secrets management, image security, policy enforcement, and Zero Trust principles.
• Automate provisioning and operations using Terraform, Ansible, Python, Git, REST APIs, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop CI/CD and GitOps practices using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or Flux.
• Provide Level 3 support for complex incidents, including root cause analysis and problem management.
• Manage upgrades, patching, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Create documentation, reusable templates, engineering standards, and operational runbooks.

Your Profile

You bring:

• Experience in infrastructure, cloud, platform, or systems engineering in an enterprise environment.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and container platform engineering experience.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes, container runtimes, Helm, and container orchestration.
• Experience with AKS, EKS, OpenShift, Rancher, Tanzu, or similar platforms.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes networking, ingress, service discovery, load balancing, network policies, and cluster security.
• Experience with Azure and AWS cloud services, networking, identity, and hybrid connectivity.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Python, Git, REST APIs, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, or similar.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, or Terraform certifications.
• Experience with Istio, Linkerd, Crossplane, Prisma Cloud, Aqua, Sysdig, Trivy, Snyk, API gateways, or developer platform tooling.

What Makes You a Great Fit

You enjoy solving complex technical problems and turning them into reliable, repeatable platform services. You communicate clearly, collaborate across global teams, and balance security, scalability, and developer experience. You bring a continuous improvement mindset and contribute to a learning culture by sharing knowledge and supporting the growth of others.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Employment Type: Full Time

Alternative Locations: Spain : Madrid

Travel Percentage: 0 - 10%

Requisition ID: 20737