Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & GitOps (m/f/d)

Do you love taking on new challenges and want to help us pursue our mission to make digital communication in healthcare secure and reliable? Then we are looking for you as a Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & GitOps (m/f/d) to strengthen our team!

Since our founding in 2019, Famedly has been working to digitize medical communication processes in a data-protection-compliant way and revolutionize the healthcare system. Famedly brought the first gematik-certified TI-Messenger to market to improve communication and collaboration within the healthcare sector. Famedly enables medical teams to exchange sensitive patient information, images, and other files in real time from anywhere — from medication plans and lab results to X-ray images. As a dynamic, remote-first startup based in Berlin with a growing and experienced team, we work together every day toward our vision of a healthcare system without information barriers. Famedly relies on open-source software and primarily uses and actively contributes to Matrix and FHIR.

As a Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & GitOps (m/f/d), you will be part of a talented team of developers at all levels and play a central role in building and operating the next generation of our infrastructure. We are actively migrating from an Ansible-based VM deployment model to a Kubernetes-based platform managed via GitOps. Our clusters are self-hosted and self-managed (bare metal and cloud VMs) - we deliberately do not use managed Kubernetes offerings.

Your responsibilities

• Design, and build our Kubernetes platform across multiple self-hosted clusters

• Operate self-hosted Kubernetes clusters end to end: upgrades, CNI networking, storage, load balancing, and DNS

• Provision and lifecycle-manage infrastructure with OpenTofu and Terragrunt: writing and reviewing modules, state management, plan/apply workflows

• Develop and maintain our GitOps workflows with Argo CD (app-of-apps model, Helm-based deployments)

• Operate and evolve core platform services such as Harbor, OpenBao, Zitadel

• Build and improve observability across the platform (Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Alloy) and contribute to actionable alerting

• Manage secrets, backups, and data services (e.g. CNPG/PostgreSQL, Barman)

• Partner with product engineering teams to migrate services from Ansible/VM-based deployments to Kubernetes and define reusable deployment standards

• Improve developer experience through documentation, templates, golden paths, and self-service platform capabilities

• Troubleshoot platform issues across infrastructure, networking, and application layers (2nd-level support)

• Participate in on-call duties to ensure stable platform operations
  

What you should bring

• Several years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering or DevOps

• Hands-on experience operating self-hosted/self-managed Kubernetes in production: cluster upgrades, networking, storage, and troubleshooting without relying on a cloud provider's managed control plane.

• Daily GitOps practice: you ship changes via Git pull requests and Argo CD (or Flux) reconciliation, with solid Git fundamentals (branching, reviews, rebasing)

• Experience with monitoring and observability for distributed systems (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, Loki)

• Scripting and automation skills (e.g. Nix, Bash)

• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and production deployment practices (progressive rollouts, rollbacks, health checks)

• Strong problem-solving skills, clear communication, and a proactive ownership mindset

• Very good English skills, written and spoken

Nice to have

• Ideally a completed IT apprenticeship or degree — or equivalent qualifications through professional experience

• Experience with Talos Linux or other minimal/immutable Kubernetes operating systems

• Bare-metal operations: RAID/LVM storage, out-of-band access, hardware lifecycle

• Experience with secrets management (e.g. OpenBao/Vault, External Secrets Operator)

• Experience with PostgreSQL operators (e.g. CNPG) and backup/restore workflows

• Prior involvement in large-scale infrastructure migrations

• Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments
  

👉 Please note: For this position, we are currently only able to consider applications from candidates located within the EU/EEA.

Why you should work at Famedly

• Work at a fast-growing startup in an exciting phase — Since 2019 we have grown rapidly and we have big plans ahead! Famedly brought the first gematik-certified TI-Messenger to market, and with your help we will continue to evolve it and the platform behind it.

• Your perfect work-life balance — With remote work and flexible hours, you decide when and where you are most productive. You also have the option to work from our office in Berlin. Your choice: set up your home office or use a co-working space!

• Attractive conditions — A permanent contract with competitive compensation (range between 60-70k € gross/year depending on your experience), a training budget, work equipment of your choice, and 28 vacation days per year.

• Flexible Benefits with Probonio – You receive a monthly wellbeing budget that you can use for vouchers from a wide range of food, mobility, retail, and lifestyle partners or for a discounted membership with Urban Sports Club.

• We love open source — In your work you will regularly have the opportunity to contribute to open-source projects. An overview is available at:

• Autonomy & room to shape — At Famedly you make a difference. Help shape company structures and internal processes from the ground up and make your individual contribution. To advance our mission, every process is worth questioning and improving!

• A diverse and international team — We value an open mindset and a diverse, inclusive culture where everyone feels welcome.

• Regular team events — Workshops, team-building activities, virtual game nights, and company events such as our Summer and Winter Summit.

We are a proud equal-opportunities employer and place great value on mutual tolerance and acceptance in a diverse environment. Everyone receives the same opportunities in our application process. We look forward to hearing from you!

Sounds good? What are you waiting for? 😎 Apply now! We are excited to get to know you!