Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

About the role

BASF is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d) in Madrid to design, operate and continuously improve its global container platform based on Rancher and Kubernetes. The role contributes a DevOps perspective to platform design decisions and drives automation, standardization and self-service across the platform.

Key responsibilities

• Provision, operate and optimize Kubernetes clusters on-premises and in public clouds such as Azure, 21Vianet and Alibaba Cloud.
• Support DevOps and application teams in choosing a container solution and deploying, operating and scaling containerized workloads.
• Analyze and resolve complex incidents, contribute to root cause analysis and implement corrective measures.
• Improve monitoring, logging and observability to increase platform reliability and transparency.
• Work in an agile, self-managing way within the team and coordinate dependencies across teams.

Required profile

• Several years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, software engineering or a related IT discipline.
• Experience troubleshooting complex issues, analyzing incidents and collaborating with DevOps teams and infrastructure specialists.
• Ability to turn application and business requirements into pragmatic platform and self-service solutions.
• Very good English communication skills.

Required skills

• Linux, building and managing containers.
• Kubernetes and Rancher (Rancher is an advantage).
• Cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• CI/CD pipelines, automation, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.
• Networking, identity and access management, security and observability in cloud-native environments.

What we offer

• Flexible work schedule and home-office options.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• 23 holiday days per year plus 5 additional days and 2 cultural days.
• Relocation assistance to Madrid.