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Siemens

Automation, digitalization, and smart infrastructure provider

Cloud Platform Engineer - Rail Signalling

Platform EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTres Cantos, SpainNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, or equivalent practical experience in cloud platform and infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift, including deployment, administration, scaling, and troubleshooting.
  • Advanced Linux administration skills, with Red Hat preferred, and solid Bash/Shell scripting capabilities.
  • Practical knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code, including Ansible and Terraform.
  • Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere or OpenShift Virtualization.
  • Professional proficiency in English (C1) and Spanish.
  • A collaborative mindset to work effectively in cross-functional global teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and continuously evolve secure, scalable, and resilient private cloud platforms for critical railway solutions, primarily based on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes.
  • Configure, integrate, and deploy Siemens products, adapting platform and application components such as PostgreSQL, JBoss, and ActiveMQ Artemis to project and customer needs.
  • Install, administer, scale, upgrade, and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes environments, including core resources, services, ingress, and operators.
  • Modernise traditional Java and Linux-based applications and support their evolution towards containerised and microservices-based architectures.
  • Administer and automate Red Hat Enterprise Linux, virtualisation platforms such as VMware vSphere and OpenShift Virtualisation, HPE compute infrastructure, networking, and persistent storage.
  • Develop and maintain automation, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD capabilities using technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and Tekton.
  • Implement and continuously improve platform observability using monitoring, logging, and alerting technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack.
  • Apply cloud-native security practices across the platform, including role-based access control, secrets management, system hardening, and security policies.
  • Optimise infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, and resource utilisation across physical, virtual, and containerised environments.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across infrastructure, platform, middleware, database, and application layers.
  • Work closely with development, engineering, cybersecurity, and operations teams to define technical solutions and support successful project delivery.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, version-controlled configurations, and reusable knowledge to facilitate platform support and continuous improvement.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to the technical evolution, automation, and standardisation of the platform.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of enterprise networking, persistent storage, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, Java middleware such as JBoss, or HPE server infrastructure.
  • Relevant certifications in OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux, or VMware.

About the Company

Siemens

Automation, digitalization, and smart infrastructure provider

Siemens is a global engineering and technology company focused on automation, digitalization, smart infrastructure, and mobility. Its products and solutions span industrial automation systems, electrical equipment, energy management, and digital services that help industries run more efficiently. The company’s core technology comes from its history of electrical generation and distribution, including the dynamo-electric principle, and it now sells hardware, software, and services that connect factories, buildings, grids, and transportation networks. Siemens differentiates itself through scale, a broad portfolio across the value chain, and a long track record of large-scale, multi-country projects in infrastructure and industry. Its goal is to enable smarter, more sustainable industrial processes and urban systems by integrating hardware, software, and digital services to improve productivity, energy efficiency, and mobility.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Munich, Germany
Founded
1847

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