DevOps & Platform Engineering – Grid Asset System (PID 524-2026-023)

This is a remote position.

DevOps & Platform Engineering – Grid Asset System (PID 524-2026-023) 50Hertz / MCCS | Contract / Freelance

• Contract / Freelance
  
• Full-time
  
• Remote with travel readiness required (Germany)
  
• Start: Immediately
  
• 6 months (extensions possible)
  

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Principal Platform Engineer to join the MCCS (Modular Control Centre System) programme at 50Hertz, Germany's leading transmission system operator. You will help build and establish a cloud-native hybrid cloud engineering platform (Azure and on-premises) supporting approximately 20 product teams and 150 developers, acting as a central enabler for the efficient development and stable operation of MCCS products.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, implementing and documenting a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based engineering platform
  
• Adapting and customising standardised engineering services across code, build, deploy and run phases
  
• Implementing Infrastructure-as-Code for reproducible, versioned environment and service provisioning, enabling developer self-service
  
• Integrating centrally provided platform services including Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL and observability tooling
  
• Designing, implementing and operating CI/CD pipelines and establishing SDLC standards aligned to best practices and security requirements
  
• Introducing trunk-based development, automated testing and build and release best practices
  
• Analysing existing systems and deriving migration strategies for applications and development teams transitioning to EDP
  
• Providing technical consultancy on integration into the multi-tier platform architecture (EDP, GrASP, MCCS)
  
• Empowering development teams to use the platform independently over time
  

Requirements

What you'll need

• 10+ years of experience as a DevOps and/or Platform Engineer
  
• 5+ years of experience as a Principal Platform Engineer and/or SRE
  
• Excellent knowledge of setting up and migrating engineering platforms for very large development teams (20+ teams, 100+ developers)
  
• Excellent knowledge and extensive experience in Developer Experience
  
• Excellent knowledge of build and deployment tooling across Azure and on-premises environments
  
• Extensive expertise in GitOps deployments and deployment strategies including ArgoCD and Helm
  
• Excellent knowledge of cloud-native secure SDLCs
  
• Excellent knowledge of monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and OpenTelemetry
  
• Fluent English (C1 minimum)
  

Desirable

• Proven experience building engineering platforms and self-service platforms/Golden Paths
  
• Experience designing platforms as products with clear APIs and roadmaps
  
• Experience in large-scale cloud/platform migrations
  
• Expertise in Kubernetes multi-cluster platform operation
  
• Knowledge of CI/CD architectures including Azure DevOps and Harness.io
  
• Knowledge of GitOps and deployment strategies including Blue/Green and Canary
  
• DevSecOps and Security-by-Design experience in critical infrastructure or regulated systems
  

Benefits