Lead Kubernetes Administrator and Service Delivery Manager

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Job Description:

Lead Kubernetes Administrator and Service Delivery Manager

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Lead Kubernetes Administrator and Service Delivery Manager to join our Information Management Department based in Toulouse , France. 

As a Lead Kubernetes Administrator and Service Delivery Manager  you will join the Airbus Hosting Services Department and more specifically the Container Technology team. 

The team has a fundamental role:

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To secure Airbus multi cloud strategy,

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To run and maintaint the microservices architectures, 

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To prevent the vendor locking and portability, 

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To create  the applications able  to react to events and scale up/ down according to demand, 

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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:

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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.

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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.

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Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.

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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:

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!

Tasks and 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 Responsibilities

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Strategic 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.

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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).

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Namespace as a Service (PaaS): Automate the provisioning and lifecycle of environments with strict enforcement of quotas, RBAC, and cloud-native network policies.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Observability & Capacity Planning: Optimize Zabbix and cloud-native monitoring (CloudWatch/Prometheus) to ensure system health and proactive capacity planning for AWS spend and performance.

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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.

Required Skills:

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?   

Technical Excellence:

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Cloud Expertise: 3+ years of deep technical experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Route53). Experience with GCP is a plus.

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Container Platforms: Expert-level knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) and the Kubernetes ecosystem.

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Linux Foundations: 5+ years of experience with Linux system administration (RHEL/CoreOS preferred).

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Automation Suite: Proven mastery of ArgoCD, Ansible, and Terraform.

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Development: Strong scripting ability in Python, Go, or Bash to automate operational tasks.

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Leadership & Methodology:

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Service Management: Strong experience with ITIL processes, specifically Incident and Change Management within ServiceNow.

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Agile Mindset: Proven track record working in Agile Scrum and/or Kanban projects.

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Communication: Strong analytical problem-solving ability and the capacity to lead technical discussions with cross-border teams.

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Languages: Advanced level of English and French (Preferred but not mandatory)

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Flexibility Needed:   Requires flexibility to cover weekends, holidays, and evening shifts as needed.

Feel like you can’t tick some boxes above? If you have most of the skills and experience that we’re looking for and are willing to use your talent to learn the rest, we encourage you to apply!

You will have an Opportunity  to:  

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Support  and make possible a Multi Cloud strategy

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Participate in implementation of  the cloud native solutions and secure the host  agnosticity. 

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Support modernization of PLM, ERP, CRM leveraging upon Cloud & hosting technologies

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Assess new opportunities for cost reduction or avoidance

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Cloud hosting failures may lead to major business disruptions by disconnecting and shutting down all Airbus applications

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Participate in Ransomware risk prevention

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Supporting sustainability challenges (green IT) by reducing CO2 footprint

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Participate to new services models (skywise like) linked to digitalization

 

Your boarding pass:

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Experience in Container environment , Platform management and product integration (product at scale),

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Experience building and deploying cloud Container solutions,

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Security by design concept

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Experience working with Docker & Kubernetes cloud platforms

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Proven experience with Container solutions such as OpenShift,.

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Proven experience with AWS

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Experience with Gitops solutions 

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Strong communication skills

Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customized development solutions.

Take your career to a new level and apply ONLINE  now!

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 India Private Limited

Employment Type:
Permanent

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Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Digital

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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.