# Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d) - Kubernetes · Internal Developer Platforms · Data Streaming

Your mission What to ExpectAt Steadforce, we build platforms that development teams can rely on. As a Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d), you’ll design internal developer platforms and streaming infrastructures for enterprise clients and guide them from initial concept through to production. You’ll design and develop self-service platforms based on Kubernetes, GitOps, and CNCF tools such as Argo CD, Crossplane, Istio, and Kyverno. You’ll build developer portals (e.g., Backstage) and build and deployment pipelines that significantly ease developers’ day-to-day workloads. You operate and expand streaming platforms using Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams. You make architectural and technological decisions that have a real impact on customers and confidently advocate for them with stakeholders. You’ll advise clients in workshops, assist with proposals and effort estimates, and share your knowledge with the team through code reviews, mentoring, and interviews. You’ll actively help shape our Center of Competence (CoC) for Platform Engineering through tech talks, presentations, and your own topics. Your profile Here are the technical requirements you’ll need: Several years of

- **Id**: 3735420
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/stead-force-senior-platform-engineer-mfd-kubernetes-internal-developer-platforms-data-streaming>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Munich, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T16:52:07Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T07:53:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3972
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Apple Macbook, Flexible schedule, Professional development, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, DevOps & Platform Engineering

## Company

- **Id**: 2450923
- **Name**: Stead Force
- **Domain**: steadforce.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/steadforce>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Personio

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **Backstage** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Crossplane** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Istio** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Keycloak** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Kyverno** — Optional: no
- **Loki** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Redpanda** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T09:21:19Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.851
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 10
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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