Platform Engineer (M/F/X)

Are you ready for the opportunity to get hands-on with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and CI/CD pipeline tools? This is your chance; ITQ offers an environment to learn, and to learn from peers, with high standards of quality. We are passionate about our customers, but we are also passionate about enabling our employees to adopt new skillsets and ways of working.

Does that sound like something you want to be a part of? And do you get excited about cloud-native practices and DevOps subjects such as; platform automation, CI/CD pipelines, Containers, Kubernetes, managing and abstracting public and private clouds? Then you might be the match for us!

We are one, we are ITQ!

Are you ready to play Champions League IT?

Technology

Good working knowledge of Windows and/or Linux systems administration. Or willingness to learn Linux OS fundamentals.
Some familiarity with infrastructure (Compute, Network, Storage, Cloud Management). Ideally experience with VMware infrastructure and/or one of the hyperscale cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) infrastructure portfolios and you may have even automated cloud-infra using for example Terraform or Cloudformation.
You have an understanding and ideally some practical experience with Kubernetes and Docker. You are in possession of or are willing to quickly achieve the CKA or CKAD certifications. You might have a local Kubernetes distribution running on your laptop.
You like automating things and are familiar with at least 1 scripting language and want to keep learning in this area.
You are familiar with the concept of ‘pipelines’ and ‘supply-chain’ and would like to get (deeply) into tooling around this, for example ArgoCD, Flux, Github, etc.
You are somewhat familiar with the Open-Source community, especially the CNCF landscape of projects such as Kubernetes itself and the projects typically associated with k8s, such as networking tools for overlay, ingress and load-balancing.
You have some experience with using git, and understand the fundamentals of GitOps.

Required skills

Studies in the field of computer science, IT specialist or comparable training;
Ideally, several years of IT experience in different business environments; Ideally customer facing environments;
Great Enthusiasm for new technologies and innovations, a passion to keep learning;
Good social, consulting and communication skills;
Ideally, you enjoy participating in the community: writing blogs, participating in councils, public speaking;
You are fluent in English and German and you live in Germany.

People love working at ITQ

We offer awesome perks

Attractive salary package
Possibility to work from home
Annual budget for personal training and certification
Drive your own development and build a thriving career
Great network of renowned experts
You are part of the ITQ Family and enjoy the real #ITQlife
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#1 Introduction

We’ll arrange meetings so you and our experts can get to know each other better. You’ll speak with the head of department, an ITQ founder, the HR department, and someone from your team. We’ve learned that Microsoft Teams or Zoom is great for all this, but real-life meetings are even better. We’ll happily discuss all this with you during the introduction.

#2 Employment terms

If both you and we are fully convinced—following our introductory meetings—that we can work together successfully, we’ll get in touch to discuss employment terms. It’s important for us to agree everything before you get started. We’ll go through our proposal with you and make sure everything is clear.

#3 Contract signing

Signing your contract after agreeing employment terms is always an exciting moment. We’ve fully digitized this process—someone from HR will contact you to explain it, so you know exactly what to do every step of the way. This has the great advantage that we can act quickly once everything has been agreed, with digital documentation for added security.

#4 Onboarding

Then it’s time to welcome you into the ITQ family. Onboarding at ITQ consists of various stages, and actually starts in the Introduction—getting to know each other during the recruitment stage. We stay in regular contact after you’ve signed the contract but not started yet, and try to answer any questions as best as we can. Then there’s an induction program ready for you in your first working week, to help you get to know ITQ and your new colleagues.