Platform Engineer
Keyfactor
About Keyfactor
Our mission is to build a connected society, rooted in trust, with identity-first security for every machine and human. Keyfactor helps organizations move fast to establish digital trust at scale — and then maintain it. With decades of cybersecurity experience, Keyfactor is trusted by more than 1,500 companies across the globe. We are proud to continually earn recognition as a Best Place to Work, and we achieve that through our amazing people who cultivate our culture as we grow. We hope you will trust your future with Keyfactor!
Title: Platform Engineer (title on contract - Senior Dev Ops Engineer)
Location: Germany; Aachen
Experience: Senior (IC4)
Job Function: Engineering
Employment Type: Full-Time
Industry: Computer & Network Security
Job Summary
The Platform Engineer uses expertise in modern development tools and practices to streamline developer operations and support software releases. By encouraging innovation and collaboration, this role supports business objectives through automation, efficient infrastructure architecture, and a focus on, helping to ensure integration and delivery of software products.
Responsible for building and maintaining the tools, processes, and environments that enable efficient software delivery. This role emphasizes automating workflows, containerizing applications, virtualization and hypervisors, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
This role has a dual responsibility of building and maintaining on-premise as well as cloud-based infrastructure. A successful candidate should ideally have a deep knowledge of both, but we can also consider a candidate who is deep in one area and curious about and willing to learn the other.
Some of the technologies we work on include: Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Artifactory, AWX, Ansible, Proxmox, Hyper-V, VMWare
The role is based out of Aachen office in Germany, following a hybrid work model and excellent flexible working practices. Applicants must hold a valid Right to Work in Germany, and should be able to work from the office atleast two days each week.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure automation and deployment processes.
- Architect and manage scalable containerization and orchestration solutions for applications.
- Drive continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) improvements to optimize workflows.
- Monitor and enhance system performance, availability, and security through proactive measures.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to improve automation and deployment strategies.
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for consistent and reproducible environments.
- Operate and optimize hypervisor infrastructure at scale.
- Mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance and fostering skill development.
Minimum Qualifications, Education, and Skills
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another technical field (or equivalent experience).
- 4 years or more of relevant work experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or IT infrastructure.
- Extensive knowledge of DevOps and Platform Engineering industry trends.
- Deep understanding of scripting, version control, and infrastructure best practices.
- Comprehensive knowledge of system performance, security, and reliability.
- Strategic thinking, exceptional problem-solving abilities, high-level proficiency in relevant tools and technologies.
- Advanced skills in infrastructure automation and deployment.
- Expertise in containerization and orchestration, in particular Kubernetes.
- Experience with optimizing and scaling CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to lead complex projects, drive strategic initiatives, and influence decision-making.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to mentor junior team members and lead initiatives.
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Compensation
Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Culture, Career Opportunities and Benefits
We build teams that continually strive to get better than the day before. You will be challenged daily and given opportunities to grow personally and professionally. We balance autonomy and structure to create an entrepreneurial environment to spur creativity and new ideas.
Here are just some of the initiatives that make our culture special:
- Second Fridays (a company-wide day off on the second Friday of every month minus November and December of 2025 due to the Holiday schedule). Please note that this benefit is subject to change.
- Comprehensive benefit coverage globally.
- Generous paid parental leave globally.
- Competitive time off globally.
- Dedicated employee-focused ambassadors via Key Contributors & Culture Committees.
- DIVERSE Commitment, a call to action for a more inclusive and diverse future in business, society, and technology.
- The Keyfactor Alliance Program to support DEIB efforts.
- Wellbeing resources, wellness allowance, mindfulness app free membership, Wellness Wednesdays.
- Global Volunteer Day, company non-profit matching, and 3 volunteer days off.
- Monthly Talent development and Cross Functional meetings to support professional development.
- Regular All Hands meetings – followed by group gatherings.
Our Core Values
Our core values are extremely important to how we run our business and what we look for in every team member:
Trust is paramount.
We deliver security software and solutions where trust and openness are of the highest importance for our customers. We are honest and a trusted partner in every aspect of business.
Customers are core.
We strategize, operate, and execute through a customer-centric view. We prioritize the security interests of our customers, and we act as if their data were our own.
Innovation never stops, it only accelerates.
The speed of change is accelerating. We are committed, through investment and focus, to stay ahead of the innovation curve.
We deliver with agility.
We thrive in high-paced and continually changing environments. We navigate through newly added variables, adjust accordingly, while driving towards our strategic goals.
United by respect.
Respect for all is what unites us. We promote diversity, inclusivity, equity, and acting with empathy and openness, both in our business and in our communities.
Teams make “it” happen.
Vision and goals are not individually achievable – they require teamwork. We pride ourselves in operating as a cohesive team, creating promoters and partners, and winning as one.
Keyfactor is a proud equal opportunity employer including but not limited to veterans and individuals with disabilities.
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION: Applicants with disabilities may contact a member of Keyfactor’s People team via people@keyfactor.com and/or telephone at 1.216.785.2990 to request and arrange for accommodations at any time.