TransnetBW GmbH | Germany | 73xxx Wendlingen am Neckar | Permanent position | Full time | Published since: 17.12.2025 on stepstone.de
Principal Platform Engineer OT/IT Infrastructure for – Critical Energy Systems (m/f/d)
As a transmission system operator, we secure the power supply for around eleven million people in Baden-Württemberg. We create the infrastructure for the energy transition by maintaining, optimizing and expanding the high-voltage network according to needs. With our network, we not only make the country an innovative power turntable in the heart of Europe, but also make the energy system of the future significant. The system operation area is responsible 24/7 for the safe, environmentally friendly and efficient operation of the transmission network and the control zone of TransnetBW. In addition to the control of the 380- and 220-kilovolt transport network, this includes the provision of efficient IT and infrastructure systems, the trade in energy and balancing markets, HSE tasks and the development of future-oriented platform solutions for controlling the power grid. 20 years ago, the power grids were still determined by large conventional power plant blocks. In 2032 we face a system consisting mainly of wind, photovoltaics, gas power plants, storage and flexible loads. These structural changes in the power grid pose great challenges to TransnetBW as a transmission system operator in controlling the power grid. Here comes MSHIP. MSHIP is a platform that will provide our expert teams with the next generation of powerful OT/IT systems and applications by 2032. For this we build iterative and incrementally real-time-capable on-prem, self-hosted, self-run, air-gapped bare metal OT/IT platforms in our own data centers. Reference number: 24814
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We don't talk about DevOps – we live it! If you do not separate engineering, development and operations, you are right here You've seen how supposedly highly available services and clusters die? Once enough – now you build systems that cannot afford it. Here you take control of a highly secure K8s-based platform (Bare Metal, air-gapped, geo-distributed) and shape it as “Pioneer” structures that “Settler” and “Town Planner” align themselves – not because You have to, but because You work. You can prove your technical sovereignty in the stack: Open Hardware, GitOps, NetOps, Policy as Code – no cloud provider or concessions, but on-prem, self-built and auditable and reconstructable. You support us through hands-on-engineering in combination with architecture vision – from infrastructure to services. You don't work with fellow runners, but with people who take responsibility for the results and request them. No tactics. No show business. Only real effect.
Multiannual (5+) experience with high-security platform environments, K8s in production quality, CI/CD in GitOps models, ideally also with Air-Gap methods Deep experience with Linux as well as basic competencies in Crossplane and Ansible German and good English driving licence class B Ability to build trust with thoughtful solutions and stable architectures
A real technical challenge with social impact A team that knows more than it shows – but is open to substance Space, Responsibility, Protective Room – No Overhead, No Show A platform you co-design and answer. Without excuses. An environment that reacts to substance – thus set standards when wearing them. .
Location
![]() | TransnetBW GmbH | |
| 73240 Wendlingen am Neckar | ||
| Germany |
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