Platform Engineering Manager (F/H)

### Required experience and skills **Leadership** * Experience managing or leading engineers, ideally including senior / confirmed profiles, with a track record of growing people through mentoring and technical guidance * Ability to set the technical bar and hold it, with the maturity that comes from significant production experience * Strong communication skills for documentation writing, stakeholder alignment, and change management facilitation **Technical foundation** (you should be credible and hands-on enough to lead this team) * Significant production experience on AWS using container technologies and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform / Pulumi) * Solid production experience with Kubernetes in on-premise / private cloud contexts (storage controller management, advanced networking, control plane management) * Very strong networking knowledge (all OSI layers, TLS, DNS, DHCP, routing) * Strong Linux system knowledge, including containers and troubleshooting * Programming and code architecture skills * Test-Driven Development practices and a very good understanding of Domain-Driven Design * Production experience in release management including CI systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and CD systems (e.g. ArgoCD, Spinnaker) * Production experience in monitoring, alerting, and observability implementation, performance troubleshooting, and reliability engineering * Production experience in database management (handling migrations, introducing breaking changes in data schemas without downtime, handling backup and restoration) * Baseline knowledge of security compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2) * Working with AI agents **Additional skills and experience we value** * Packaging code with Nix and configuring operating systems with NixOS / nix-darwin * Working with airgapped environments (environments disconnected from the internet) * Experience with zero-trust systems * Knowledge of advanced security compliance frameworks (IGI 901, FedRAMP) * Experience with AI agent factories