Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, operate and continuously improve BASF’s global container platform based on Rancher and Kubernetes and help shape its evolution by contributing your DevOps perspective to platform design decisions.
• Drive automation, standardization, and self-service capabilities across the platform.
• Provision, operate and optimize Kubernetes clusters across on-premises environments and public clouds, including Azure, 21Vianet and Alibaba Cloud.
• Consult and support DevOps and application teams in finding a suitable container solution and in deploying, operating and scaling containerized workloads.
• Proactively identify weaknesses and improvement opportunities in infrastructure, platform architecture, performance and security.
• Analyze and resolve complex incidents, contribute to root cause analysis and implement sustainable corrective measures.
• Improve monitoring, logging and observability to increase platform reliability and transparency.
• Following the agile principles to transparently self-manage your tasks within the team.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams and ensure the seamless integration and operation of platform services.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Several years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, software engineering or a related IT discipline.
• Knowledge in Linux and how to run, build and manage containers
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in development, deployment or operations; experience with Rancher is an advantage.
• Solid hands-on experience with cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure, and the ability to confidently navigate cloud services, architectures and operational processes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices.
• Practical experience with containerized application delivery and a good understanding of how application teams build, deploy and operate workloads.
• An understanding of networking, identity and access management, security and observability in cloud-native environments.
• Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues, analyzing incidents and contributing to root cause analysis.
• The ability to translate application and business requirements into pragmatic platform and self-service solutions.
• A collaborative mindset and confidence working with DevOps teams, infrastructure specialists and other stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• A strong interest in deepening your expertise in infrastructure, platform engineering and hybrid, cloud-agnostic container platforms.
• A structured, proactive and service-oriented way of working.
• Very good communication skills in English.

WHAT WE OFFER

• A secure work environment because your health, safety and wellbeing is always our top priority.
• Flexible work schedule and Home-office options, so that you can balance your working life and private life.
• Learning and development opportunities
• 23 holiday days per year
• 5 additional days (readjustment)
• 2 cultural days
• A collaborative, trustful and innovative work environment
• Being part of an international team and work in global projects
• Relocation assistance to Madrid provided

At BASF, the chemistry is right

Because we are counting on innovative solutions, sustainable actions, connected thinking and on you, become a part of our formula for success and develop the future with us - in a global team that embraces diversity and equal opportunities irrespective of gender, age, origin, sexual orientation, disability or belief.At BASF, we are committed to upholding and ensuring compliance with company standards related to quality, environment, health, safety, and energy, in line with our global guidelines.We actively promote a culture of prevention and continuous improvement, encouraging collaboration in initiatives related to quality, environmental protection, health, safety, and energy performance.We foster responsible energy use, promoting efficiency in daily operations and supporting the identification of improvement projects and energy-saving opportunities