ppSchwarz Digits creates the technological foundation for digital sovereignty in Europe. As the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, we develop and manage the IT infrastructures for the retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland, as well as Schwarz Production and PreZero. At the same time, we operate as an independent provider in the external market to support companies across Europe in their digital transformation. We bundle our core services in the areas of Cloud, Cyber Security, Data AI, Communication, and Workspace. /p pJoin us and contribute to digital sovereignty in Europe. With us, you will work at the intersection of agility and security: You will benefit from fast decision-making processes, enjoy genuine creative freedom in your projects, and be able to build upon the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group. /p h3Cloud Platform Engineer (m/f/d) /h3 h3Your tasks /h3 ul liYou own the design, maintenance, and continuous improvement of our Kubernetes infrastructure, including upgrades, resource planning, and cluster health across all environments (DEV, TEST, QA, PRE-PROD, PROD). /li liYou manage and extend our Helm chart library and ArgoCD App-of-Apps GitOps pipelines, ensuring all deployments are declarative, reproducible, and auditable. /li liYou operate and improve our CloudNativePG-based PostgreSQL fleet including backup strategies, failover testing, and schema migration workflows. /li liYou drive Infrastructure as Code practices across the team: defining, versioning, and reviewing all infrastructure changes through Git, with no manual snowflakes. /li liYou own our observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.) building dashboards, tuning alert rules, and ensuring on-call teams have actionable signals.



/li liYou strengthen platform security: managing TLS certificates via cert-manager, configuring Keycloak integrations, and hardening the mTLS setup used for federated hospital connectivity. /li liYou collaborate closely with backend engineers to define container build standards, optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), and integrate security scanning into the delivery workflow. /li liYou work with our infrastructure provider STACKIT to plan capacity, coordinate Kubernetes upgrades, and maintain disaster recovery procedures. /li /ul h3Your profile /h3 ul liYou have hands-on experience running production Kubernetes clusters: upgrades, multi-namespace management, RBAC, resource quotas, and real incidents. /li liYou are fluent in Helm and GitOps tooling (ArgoCD or Flux); you write charts from scratch, not just deploy them. /li liYou are comfortable with PostgreSQL operations: replication, backup/restore, connection pooling, and performance tuning under load. /li liYou have experience with Infrastructure as Code and treat every manual click as technical debt. /li liYou know your way around an observability stack, writing PromQL, building Grafana dashboards, and designing alert thresholds that fire when it matters. /li liIdeally, you have experience with cloud-native security concepts: mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, certificate management, and network policies. /li liIdeally, you have worked in a regulated or compliance-sensitive environment (healthcare, finance, government) where auditability and data protection are non-negotiable. /li liYou communicate clearly in English; German is a plus but not required. /li liYou are curious, self-directed, and energized by hard problems, you don't wait to be told what's broken. /li /ul /p #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Cloud Platform Engineer (m/f/d) (Barcelona)
🏢 Schwarz Digits
📍 Barcelona