Container Platform Engineer

 Role :Container Platform Engineer - Digital Technology

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Sanofi is a global pharmaceuticals and biologics company headquartered in Paris, France, and a leader in the research and development, manufacturing, and marketing of pharmaceutical drugs principally in the prescription market. The firm also develops well-known over-the-counter medication. The company covers seven major therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, central nervous system, diabetes, internal medicine, oncology, thrombosis and vaccines. It is the world's largest producer of vaccines.  

Sanofi has recently embarked on a vast and ambitious digital transformation program. A first step to this transformation was bringing all IT, Digital and Data functions under a Global Chief Digital Officer reporting to Sanofi’s CEO. The new Digital organization is implementing a 3-year strategy that will drive business growth, operating income and cost efficiency from enterprise-wide agile digital transformation.   

The digital roadmap will facilitate the acceleration of R&D drug discovery, intelligent supply chain, manufacturing digital factory of the future and commercial performance, bringing better drugs and vaccines to patients faster, to improve health and save lives.   

It is our aspiration to be a leader in biopharmaceuticals, driven by world-class digital technology, to improve people’s lives everywhere.  We put our colleagues on the highest value work, where they can best build their industry leading technical and business expertise in digital technology (digital experience, automation, software defined networks, cloud technologies, integration technologies, network security, digital workplace).  We make Sanofi a great place to work with Digital capabilities.  We leverage the best and brightest leaders and technical talent to build systems, rearchitect business processes, generate value and drive competitive advantage.    

Our team

The Container Platform Services team is dedicated to enabling secure, scalable, and automated container-based application delivery across the enterprise. Our mission is to provide a reliable Kubernetes platform that supports development teams from environment provisioning through production operations, ensuring consistent deployment standards and high platform availability. 

The team operates across the full container platform lifecycle, including cluster provisioning, platform automation, service integration, and operational support. We work closely with infrastructure, security, architecture, and application teams to deliver Kubernetes as a managed internal service in a regulated environment. 

Candidate Profile

The Container Platform Engineer collaborates within a cross-functional platform engineering team to design, deploy, and operate robust Kubernetes-based infrastructure services supporting enterprise workloads. 

The role focuses on delivering reusable platform services that improve developer productivity, strengthen operational reliability, and ensure compliance with enterprise governance standards. 

Typical responsibilities include: 

• Designing and operating Kubernetes clusters in enterprise environments  

• Supporting large-scale bare-metal cluster deployments  

• Implementing GitOps-based platform configuration workflows  

• Extending Kubernetes with validated platform add-ons and integrations  

• Providing advanced (L4) support to internal platform consumers  

• Automating infrastructure and service lifecycle operations  

• Monitoring upstream Kubernetes roadmap changes and assessing platform impact  

• Collaborating with security and architecture teams in regulated environments 

Role Description

• Participate in the design and implementation of an enterprise Kubernetes service offering 

• Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters across baremetal environments 

• Support GitOps-driven configuration management workflows 

• Provide L4 platform support for Kubernetes consumers 

•  Automate cluster lifecycle and platform add-ons 

• Monitor upstream product roadmaps and platform dependencies  

Skills

• Enterprise Kubernetes deployment and operations experience 

• Strong Linux administration experience 
• Experience with declarative infrastructure approaches 

Nice to Have

• Rancher / RKE 

• Openshift 

• ArgoCD 

• CoreOS 

• RHEL / Fedora 

• Baremetal cluster operations 

Communication Skills

• Convey ideas precisely and concisely 

• Adapt communication to technical and nontechnical audiences 

• Work autonomously within distributed teams 

Qualifications

• Typically, 3–7 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or Kubernetes administration roles. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. 

Relevant certifications (nice to have):

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) 

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)