Senior Software Developer - Crossplane

For our client Volvo Cars we are looking for a Senior Software Developer . We are seeking a Senior Software Developer with strong hands-on experience in modern cloud-native software development across the CNCF ecosystem. This role involves building and evolving a complex, production-grade product that acts as a centralized control plane for all infrastructure components. The ideal candidate will have deep Kubernetes and Go expertise, hands-on experience with production-grade GitOps workflows using Argo CD, and strong operational knowledge of running large-scale, enterprise infrastructure. You will work closely with platform, infrastructure, and developer experience teams to design and operate scalable, secure, and highly observable systems in complex production environments. Experience in platform engineering or developer experience (DevEx) teams is highly preferred. Must-Have Skills & Experience Kubernetes - Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production - Deep understanding of Kubernetes APIs, controllers, and extensibility Crossplane - Crossplane composition design and development - Custom Crossplane function development for infrastructure abstraction Go (Golang) Development - Strong hands-on experience building backend services, controllers, and APIs in Go Kubernetes Operator Development - Design, development, and maintenance of custom Kubernetes operators GitOps & Argo CD - Strong hands-on experience with production-grade Argo CD - Designing and maintaining GitOps-based deployment and infrastructure workflows Observability - Hands-on experience with observability tooling - Strong working knowledge of Grafana Cloud (metrics, logs, traces) Cloud Platform - Strong experience designing and operating workloads on Microsoft Azure Enterprise Operations - Strong operational knowledge of maintaining large-scale, enterprise-grade infrastructure - Experience managing reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence in production systems Product Development - Proven experience contributing to complex, production-grade products - Experience building platforms that serve as control planes for infrastructure components Unsupported image type. Good-to-Have Skills & Experience Additional Cloud Platforms - AWS - OpenShift - Developer Experience (DevEx) - Experience building internal developer platforms or tooling to improve developer productivity - Backstage - Strong understanding of the Backstage system model - Experience integrating Backstage with internal platform tooling Platform Engineering Prior experience in platform engineering teams Preferred Background Experience working in platform engineering or developer experience teams Strong understanding of infrastructure control planes and internal developer platforms Comfortable working in complex, distributed, and highly regulated production environments PLEASE NOTE! Volvo Cars require that an adequate background check has been completed prior to the start of the assignment, meaning that you, as the supplier, must have conducted the requested level/-s of background check as soon as possible after your candidate has been chosen for the assignment. If any deviations or discrepancies occur, the supplier should inform Ework and the candidate should not be moving forward in the procurement process. This particular assignment is marked as: Not Sensitive In the attached file/-s you will find info about the required background check/-s. Volvo Cars reserves the right to request evidence of completion of these checks according to their expectations for the duration of the contingent worker assignment at Volvo Cars. Ework offer to conduct necessary background check for a fee, please reach out for more information if interested.