Your Tasks * Architecture & Design: End-to-end ownership of design, implementation, and security of scalable platform solutions. * Technical Leadership: Define reference architectures, module catalogs, and paved-road templates, guiding engineering teams in deploying and operating cloud-native platforms. * Client Consulting: Lead client workshops and architecture discussions, driving best practices and state-of-the-art approaches. * Platform Automation: Design and implement advanced automation strategies for multi-team and multi-cloud environments. * Security & Reliability: Ensure compliance, security, and high availability for enterprise-scale platforms. * Community Engagement: Drive thought leadership by contributing to meetups, conferences, and internal knowledge-sharing initiatives. * Ownership: Own platform domains across multiple teams, supporting the whole product organization. Your Qualifications * Advanced Kubernetes: Ability to design and manage complex Kubernetes or Openshift clusters in enterprise environments. Hands-on experience with various Kubernetes Operators. * GitOps: Deep understanding of GitOps principles and the ability to design and implement robust, version-controlled infrastructure workflows utilizing tools such as ArgoCD and Flux. * Infrastructure as Code: Proven hands-on experience with multiple IaC frameworks, such as Terraform, Pulumi or Crossplane to build scalable, reusable, and maintainable infrastructure components. * CI/CD & Security: Expertise in supply-chain hardening, and securing automated deployment pipelines. * Nice-to-Have: Multi-Cloud Experience (AWS, GCP, Azure or hybrid environments), programming skills (Python, Golang or Rust), FinOps experience (cost allocation and optimization, Karpenter). * Leadership & Mentorship: Ability to coach and mentor engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. * Strategic Thinking: Outcome-oriented, client-focused, hands-on, and always anticipating technical challenges that jeopardize project outcomes. * AI-native: You actively use AI-powered tools (e.g., code assistants, LLM-based workflows) to amplify your productivity and quality, or you're eager to start. * Communication: Ability to break down complex topics and explain them in a clear and easy to understand way that makes sense to both engineers and clients. * Languages: Fluent in English; German is a plus Your Benefits Why You'll Love Working at SQUER: * Learn & Grow: Tap into a € 5.000 annual training budget to sharpen your skills and take advantage of our in-house Leadership Academy. Join and be part of our active tech community through meetups, hackathons and training sessions. Get up to 40h/year additional time off for your personal education. * Flexibility for Performance: Benefit from hybrid work options, flexible hours, workations within the EU, and additional vacation days - giving you the freedom to perform at your best. * Tailored Tools for Success: Choose your preferred hardware configuration and leverage our suite of AI tools and licenses (Anthropic, OpenAI, and more) to suit your working style. * A Perks-Packed Workplace: Work in a central office with a spacious terrace and BBQ, enjoy free lunch in the office, MyClubs sports membership, and either a free "Wiener Linien" ticket or a partial contribution to the "Klimaticket". Plus, benefit from free massages, referral bonuses, Corporate Benefits, and JobRad. Annual employee presents and a monthly team breakfast add extra value to your work experience. * please refer to the application link for further information Our employees are our most valuable asset, which is why we honour their exceptional work with not only a variety of benefits, but also a fair annual salary starting at € 75.000,- including over time - with the possibility of overpayment depending on qualifications and experience. Apply now: >>> https://www.squer.io/jobs/lead-platform-engineer-vie <<<