Overview

In this role you will build, operate and standardize a Kubernetes platform across on-premises and cloud environments to empower development teams. You’ll work with the Infra Engineering team to deliver a scalable, secure platform and drive automation and upskilling of stakeholders. You’ll collaborate with Core Cloud and IT Ops to ensure alignment and visibility across countries. This is a critical, strategic role focused on platform governance, reliability and ongoing improvement.

Compensaciones / Ventajas

- Hybrid model: work from home and Madrid office
- Lunch provided at office canteen
- Dynamic and vibrant office environment
- Learning and training programs
- Career development opportunities
- International stakeholder projects

Responsabilidades

- Guide Kubernetes platform implementations (on-prem RKE2/VMware and cloud EKS/AKS) and best practices
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and plan platform initiatives
- Design and administer multi-environment Kubernetes clusters (RKE2, EKS, AKS) and plan migrations
- Define platform roadmaps, timelines and resource needs, manage scope and risks
- Establish governance and security policies (RBAC, network policies, image scanning, hardening)
- Facilitate stakeholder communication and regular status updates
- Monitor and optimize resource usage for project efficiency
- Document lessons learned and best practices to improve future initiatives
- Define target architecture with Platform Tech Leads and support interconnectivity
- Promote IaC/GitOps for automation and scalability




- Contribute to cloud-native deployment patterns and workload migration strategies
- Enhance observability with OpenTelemetry and related tooling
- Review and improve platform governance with global architecture team
- Support enterprise-wide transformation with VMware and cloud specialists
- Champion DevOps culture and mentor platform operations team members

Requisitos principales

- 5+ years of Kubernetes production experience (on-prem and cloud)
- Hands-on administration of RKE2 on VMware vSphere (node lifecycle, etcd, CNI, storage classes)
- Experience with AWS EKS and Azure AKS (cluster provisioning, IAM/RBAC, upgrades)
- Knowledge of VMware vSphere/vCenter as underlying infra
- IaC and GitOps tooling experience (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD or Flux)
- Secrets management and vaulting (e.g., CyberArk Conjur)
- On-call availability for platform support
- Container networking and security knowledge (CNI, Ingress, service mesh, network policies) and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Scripting (Bash, Python, Go)
- Familiar with AI tooling concepts for self-service automation
- Certifications: CKA, VMware VCP-DCV, AWS or Azure Admin/Solutions Expert
- Experience with Scrum/Agile/Kanban
- Knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures (plus)

- Self-motivation and leadership
- Clear communication and stakeholder management
- Collaborative and adaptable to cross-functional teams
- Kubernetes administration (RKE2, EKS, AKS)
- Rancher multi-cluster management
- RBAC, network policies, image scanning

📌 IT Platform Engineer - pozuelo de alarcón (Madrid)
🏢 Verisure
📍 Madrid