Platform Engineer AH (M/F)

Digital Platforms And Transversal Architecture Team

Passionate Platform Engineer ready to accelerate our DevOps and Platform Engineering journey by building and maintaining highly automated, scalable, resilient environments? Join Airbus Helicopters' Digital Platforms and Transversal Architecture Team!

Your main mission is to define, develop, integrate, test, and run robust and scalable platform solutions. You'll design and implement cutting-edge, automated infrastructure for our applications and services, ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of the Kubernetes (OpenShift) platform.

Your working environment: Major economic hub with Marseille-Provence Airport, Marignane is a dynamic city in the southeast of France. It is located near the cities of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, which host a rich cultural and tourist offer. Close to the beaches of the Côte Bleue, it offers many options for water sports activities.

How we care for you:

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
• Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

• Design & Manage OpenShift Clusters: Implement/optimize highly available Red Hat OpenShift architectures for diverse applications, ensuring performance/cost-efficiency.
• Build/operate platform components supporting AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes.
• Automate Everything: Champion IaC (Helm, GitOps) for Kubernetes, designing/maintaining automated platform provisioning and operations.
• Ensure Platform Security: Implement/enforce robust security best practices (secret management, RBAC, compliance) for Kubernetes.
• Collaborate & Support: Provide expert technical support to dev/ops teams, troubleshooting complex platform, performance, and security issues.
• Innovate & Improve: Engage in full lifecycle (design to ops) for continuous platform enhancement and new tool prototyping.
• Deploy & Integrate: Deploy/test/integrate highly available, scalable, maintainable, controlled systems/services.
• Document: Develop platform user guides/best practices; coordinate functional/technical integration.

Your profile: Graduate in Information Technology or a related field. Your expertise & qualities include:

• Docker and Kubernetes (OpenShift is a plus)
• Helm, GitOps principles, DevOps best practices (CI/CD, IaC)
• Understanding of AI/ML infrastructure and basic dev concepts (Node.js, Java, .NET)
• Production environment management; strong troubleshooting skills

• Curious, open-minded, collaborative team player with strong communication
• Autonomous, organized, delivery/customer-oriented, technology enthusiast
• Fluent English/French

This position may require a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognized authorities. Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customized development solutions.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company: Airbus Helicopters SAS

Employment Type: Permanent

Classe Emploi (France): Classe F12

Experience Level: Entry Level

Job Family: Digital <JF-IM-DI>

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com.