Platform Engineering · Kubernetes · OpenShift
Senior platform engineering for business-critical Kubernetes and OpenShift environments
Support for operating, stabilising, automating and evolving cloud-native platforms in enterprise projects, with a focus on Germany and Europe.
Typical challenges
Situations in which enterprise teams need experienced platform support at short notice:
Unstable clusters or services impair day-to-day operations.
Recurring incidents tie up the team and remain without structural root-cause analysis.
Deployments run manually and error-prone instead of reproducibly.
GitOps or CI/CD processes have grown unstructured and are hard to follow.
Platform operations lack transparency about state, utilisation and changes.
Staffing gaps in platform or SRE teams put deadlines and operations at risk.
Service areas
01
Kubernetes & OpenShift Operations
- Platform operations
- Troubleshooting
- Cluster lifecycle and upgrades
- RBAC and namespaces
- Workload management
- Resource analysis
- Incident support
- Technical stabilisation
02
SRE & DevOps
- Operations processes
- Incident and problem analysis
- Release support
- Technical documentation
- Collaboration between development and operations
03
GitOps & Delivery Automation
- Argo CD
- Helm
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI/CD, where relevant to the project
- Deployment standardisation
- Reproducible releases
04
Infrastructure as Code & Cloud
- Terraform
- Cloud provisioning
- Platform bootstrapping
- Secret management
- Secret rotation
- Infrastructure standardisation
- Azure, IBM Cloud or EU cloud contexts
Project experience
Cloud-native platform operations in a regulated healthcare environment
Starting point
More than 50 cloud-native services across more than ten regulated OpenShift and Kubernetes environments in the German electronic health record (ePA) project at IBM Germany.
Role
3.5 years of SRE and DevOps work as part of the platform and operations teams.
Responsibilities
Platform operations, incident troubleshooting, GitOps delivery, release support and platform optimisation.
Technology environment
OpenShift, Kubernetes, GitOps with Helm and Argo CD, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code.
Collaboration
Close collaboration with development, operations and platform teams in a regulated enterprise context.
Practical outcomes
More stable operations, more structured deployments, faster technical root-cause analysis and traceable GitOps processes.
Further project references
2019 to 2021 · E-health
E-health platform on Azure and Kubernetes
Technical project lead and cloud operations for an e-health MVP platform in own company: design and operation of Kubernetes clusters and Azure infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and structured operations processes. Recognised under the German BMWK funding programme INVEST.
since 2025 · Sovereign AI
Own sovereign AI reference platform
Built to run on different infrastructure targets: the same versioned Helm charts are deployed and verified on SUSE RKE2, managed Kubernetes in the EU cloud, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (EKS) and OpenShift SNO.
View Sovereign AI →Two forms of collaboration
Model A
Senior reinforcement within the platform team
Suitable for:
- Ongoing enterprise projects
- Temporary staffing gaps
- Operations and further development
- Incident-heavy phases
- Migrations or automation initiatives
Model B
Clearly scoped consulting or implementation packages
Suitable for:
- GitOps review
- Terraform or IaC review
- Platform analysis
- Operations and automation assessment
- Technical roadmap
- Architecture or delivery workshop
Technology profile
Platforms
- Kubernetes
- Red Hat OpenShift (incl. SNO)
- SUSE RKE2
- AWS EKS
GitOps & Delivery
- Argo CD
- Helm
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- Git
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Bash scripting
- Configuration management
Observability & Monitoring
- Prometheus / kube-prometheus-stack
- Grafana
- Langfuse
- LogDNA
- Sysdig
Containers, Networking & Storage
- Docker, Podman, Kaniko
- ingress-nginx
- Longhorn (Kubernetes storage)
Security & Secrets
- Keycloak (SSO/OIDC)
- OAuth2-Proxy
- Cert-Manager (TLS automation)
- External Secrets
- HashiCorp Vault
- Cloud secret managers
Programming & Databases
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- REST/GraphQL APIs
Cloud & Operations
- IBM Cloud
- Azure
- EU cloud (Scaleway, STACKIT, IONOS)
- AWS (incl. European Sovereign Cloud)
- Linux
Certifications
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate 004
- IBM Certified AI Professional Developer
- IBM Certified Generative AI Engineer
Frequently asked questions
Which role profiles does the collaboration cover?
Senior Platform Engineer, SRE, DevOps Engineer or Kubernetes/OpenShift Engineer, each remote, short- or long-term.
Is predominantly remote collaboration possible?
Yes. Collaboration is predominantly remote, embedded in the project team's processes and tools.
Are on-site engagements possible?
Yes, on-site engagements in Germany or within the EU are possible by arrangement.
Which project durations make sense?
From clearly scoped packages through multi-month project engagements to longer-term reinforcement of existing teams.
Is collaboration via BSE IT CONSULTING SRL possible?
Yes. Engagements are B2B contracts with BSE IT CONSULTING SRL, either directly or via intermediaries.
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