Platform Engineer – GitHub (m/f/d)

Knauf as an employer

Knauf is an international market leader in the building materials industry. More than 35,000 employees at over 200 locations worldwide generate a turnover of over 12,6 billion euros. The foundation of our success as family business are our corporate values of humanity, partnership, commitment and entrepreneurial spirit.Knauf IT, headquartered in Kitzingen, Germany, is an important driver of the global growth and digital transformation of the KNAUF Group. 500 experts are supporting colleagues and customers with modern IT solutions and services.

Your Responsibilities

• Administer GitHub Enterprise: Manage enterprise and organization settings, policies, rulesets, teams, access models, GitHub Apps and audit logging within an EMU setup provisioned through Okta (SAML/SCIM).

• Run GitHub Copilot as a Governed Service: Handle seat management and request flows (via ServiceNow), policies, content exclusions and usage reporting.

• Build Reusable CI/CD Building Blocks: Create and maintain reusable GitHub Actions workflows, custom actions, workflow and repository templates that product teams adopt to build, test, secure and release their software.

• Operate Runners: Configure, secure, scale and monitor GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners, including capacity planning and cost awareness.

• Embed DevSecOps: Roll out and tune GitHub Advanced Security (code scanning with CodeQL, secret scanning and push protection, Dependabot) and enforce security and compliance controls through policy rather than manual review.
  

Your Competencies

• At least three years’ experience in platform engineering, DevOps engineering or a related role.

• Hands-on GitHub Enterprise administration and advanced GitHub Actions expertise, including workflows, custom actions, security, caching and deployment controls.

• Desirable experience with Enterprise Managed Users and Okta, GitHub Advanced Security, and repository migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer.

• Developer-first, automation-focused mindset, with strong documentation and communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Fluent English required; German and/or Polish are advantageous.
  

If you are looking for a variety of challenging tasks with global reach and family atmosphere, then you are most welcome at Knauf IT! With you, we will be building a digital environment for the Knauf Group that is as groundbreaking as our products for the construction industry.

We offer:

• an open, dynamic corporate culture with flat hierarchies

• independent work with creative freedom

• attractive remuneration and offers for individual old-age provision

• a wide time window for flexible working including home office

• continuous individual training and further education

• an open exchange of knowledge within the IT community

• a brand new, state-of-the-art loft office

• relocation support