#DIGITALCAMPUS Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Automation)

Job Description

Airbus Helicopters is accelerating its transition towards a Software Defined Infrastructure. We are looking for an Infrastructure & Automation Engineer to join our Cloud & DevOps team. Your mission is to drive our automation vision, moving away from manual operations toward a fully automated, robust, and service-oriented ecosystem across Private, Public (AWS, GCP), and future Sovereign Cloud environments.

You will hold end-to-end accountability for our virtualization hosting infrastructures and our multi-cloud landing zones. You will not just manage infrastructures; you will design solutions and ensure their evolution to meet critical business, hosting and security requirements. You will also support specific infrastructure layers of our Resilience strategy, contributing to the automation of our recovery environments.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Eliminate Toil through Automation: Following core SRE principles, your primary mandate is to identify and eliminate "toil"‑manual, repetitive labor that scales with system growth. You will architect this automation framework entirely from the ground up, leveraging LEAN principles to drive maximum efficiency.
• Platform Engineering & GitOps Standardization: Act as a Platform Engineer to define infrastructure deployment standards, establishing automated infrastructure patterns using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps principles for consistency across on‑premise, AWS, GCP, and future Sovereign Cloud initiatives.
• Sovereign Cloud Integration: Participate in the design and technical onboarding of future Sovereign/Trusted Cloud platforms, ensuring automation standards (IaC, security scanning) are ported to this secure environment for military and restricted data workloads.
• Operational Excellence & Continuous Security Patching: Lead the continuous follow‑up and automation of security patching across infrastructure, steering hardware providers, managing asset lifecycles, and guaranteeing completeness of technical information within the CMDB (ServiceNow).
• Support for Resilience & Recovery: Contribute to technical implementation of specific infrastructure layers for the Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE), focusing on automation of virtual machine lifecycles and recovery workflows within the Zero‑Trust vault to support the restoration of our Minimum Viable Company (MVC).
• Team Synergy: As a core member of the Cloud & DevOps team, work on Private, Public, and Sovereign Cloud topics, ensuring continuity of expertise and aligning infrastructure automation with the DevOps mindset of the OCP (OpenShift) team, leveraging shared platforms for cross‑team consistency.

Your Profile

• Experience: ~8‑10 years in Infrastructure Engineering with a "Service" mindset and the ability to navigate complex, high‑constraint environments.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Virtualization: Mastery of Nutanix and VMware, knowledge of other virtualization options (OpenStack, OpenShift Virt).
  • Automation: Proficiency in virtualization automation (Terraform, PowerCLI, Puppet, ARIA Automation, Ansible).
  • DevOps: Proven experience with GitOps principles, IaC principles, and familiarity with Public ecosystems (AWS, GCP, future trusted cloud initiatives).
  • Containers: Understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Observability & Lifecycle: Knowledge of monitoring tools (Zabbix, Dynatrace, Grafana) and management suites (SCCM, RedHat Satellite, ServiceNow).
  • Hardware & Network: Understanding of enterprise servers, storage architectures (SAN/vSAN), network architectures (LAN/WAN).
• Mindset & Soft Skills: Service‑oriented with a focus on quality and simplicity. Strong team spirit, ability to work autonomously in critical situations, and a solid understanding of the ITIL framework.
• Communication: Fluent in English and French. Results‑oriented, capable of challenging providers, and providing clear support to internal teams. Demonstrate strong negotiation and alignment skills to coordinate with the wider Hosting & Cloud Services department.

Why Join Us?

You will hold a strategic position where your technical impact and product vision are directly visible. This role offers the unique opportunity to manage the convergence between traditional infrastructure, public cloud, and the next generation of sovereign automation while protecting the digital sovereignty of Airbus Helicopters.

This position requires a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by recognized authorities.

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 Helicopters SAS

Employment Type

Permanent

Classe Emploi (France)

Classe G13

Experience Level

Professional

Job Family

Digital

EEO Statement

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