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About the CompanyAirbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Lead Kubernetes Administrator and SDM to join our Information Management Department based in Toulouse, France. As a Lead Kubernetes Administrator and SDM you will join the Airbus Hosting Services Department and more specifically the Container Technology team. The team has a fundamental role:To secure Airbus multi cloud strategy,To run and maintain the microservices architectures,To prevent the vendor locking and portability,To create the applications able to react to events and scale up/ down according to demand,To self heal and to deliver state of the art for company digitalization across Airbus. Your working environment: Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor 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.About the RoleYour challenges: Are you passionate about IT, experienced in Cloud Technologies and convinced by the business added value of digitalization? A vacancy of Lead Container Platform Engineers has arisen within Airbus in Toulouse. With the Digital Transformation of Airbus, the information technology of the company is completely redesigned, looking for create added value for the business. Cloud is one of the main enablers of this transformation. In that context, Airbus IT teams are entirely reshaped and looking for new skills & potentials. Challenges are numerous and exciting!Responsibilities:We operate a mission-critical, Kubernetes-based Platform (currently running on Red Hat OpenShift) deployed on AWS. We are looking for a Lead Engineer to be the guardian of Service Delivery and Operational Excellence. In this role, you will manage the full lifecycle of an enterprise-grade platform (OCP) deployed across Public Cloud environments (AWS/GCP). Your mission is to ensure 24/7 stability through advanced automation (GitOps), rigorous Service Management, and proactive cloud-native monitoring.Key ResponsibilitiesStrategic Roadmap & Cloud Lifecycle: Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of the platform. This includes EOL planning, major version upgrades, and aligning the AWS infrastructure underlay with OCP requirements.Infrastructure GitOps & IaC: Serve as the lead architect for automation. Use ArgoCD as the sole orchestrator for cluster administration and Terraform/CloudFormation for provisioning AWS resources (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3).Namespace as a Service (PaaS): Automate the provisioning and lifecycle of environments with strict enforcement of quotas, RBAC, and cloud-native network policies.Fleet & Security Management: Drive global governance using ACM (Advanced Cluster Management). Ensure platform hardening and vulnerability management with ACS (Advanced Cluster Security) across all cloud zones.AWS Infrastructure Stewardship: Optimize the integration between OpenShift and AWS services. Oversee IAM roles, Security Groups, and persistent storage (EBS/EFS) to ensure high availability and security.Service Management & RCA Excellence: Act as the guarantor of ServiceNow (SNOW) workflows. Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for complex outages—whether originating in the software stack or the cloud infrastructure—and implement permanent fixes via the GitOps pipeline.Observability & Capacity Planning: Optimize Zabbix and cloud-native monitoring (CloudWatch/Prometheus) to ensure system health and proactive capacity planning for AWS spend and performance.Global Collaboration: Act as a focal point for continuous improvement, working closely with Platform Architects in Europe and administrator teams across different countries to follow key evolutions. Qualifications:We seek out curious minds. We value attention to detail, and we care deeply about outcomes. We’re looking above all for passionate people, eager to learn, willing to share, establishing innovative ways of working and influencing culture change. Are you ready to share this exciting challenge with us?Required Skills:Technical Excellence:Cloud Expertise: 3+ years of deep technical experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Route53). Experience with GCP is a plus.Container Platforms: Expert-level knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) and the Kubernetes ecosystem.Linux Foundations: 5+ years of experience with Linux system administration (RHEL/CoreOS preferred).Automation Suite: Proven mastery of ArgoCD, Ansible, and Terraform.Development: Strong scripting ability in Python, Go, or Bash to automate operational tasks.Leadership & Methodology:Service Management: Strong experience with ITIL processes, specifically Incident and Change Management within ServiceNow.Agile Mindset: Proven track record working in Agile Scrum and/or Kanban projects.Communication: Strong analytical problem-solving ability and the capacity to lead technical discussions with cross-border teams.Languages: Advanced level of English and French (mandatory for global collaboration).