Senior DevOps Engineer

Team: IT

Location: Germany

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions using Ansible and Terraform, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and automation.

• Plan, organize, monitor, and continuously improve infrastructure performance across multiple environments and data centers.

• Maintain, operate, and optimize existing infrastructure, deployment systems, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Build and improve automated deployment processes for applications across testing and production environments.

• Develop and maintain toolchains, workflows, and automation that reduce manual operational work and improve engineering efficiency.

• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing to ensure system visibility and reliability.

• Participate in incident analysis, troubleshooting, and root-cause resolution for infrastructure and deployment issues.

• Help ensure infrastructure meets appropriate security, reliability, and compliance standards.

• Document infrastructure, operational procedures, improvements, and technical decisions.

• Collaborate continuously with product and engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver robust infrastructure solutions.

• Contribute to decisions around scalability, availability, performance, and architecture, while constructively challenging approaches when necessary.

• Maintain high standards for the quality, maintainability, and reliability of infrastructure code.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional DevOps experience, including substantial hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Git, and infrastructure automation.

• Deep expertise with Ansible, particularly in complex environments, combined with practical experience using Terraform.

• Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, and virtualization.

• Strong hands-on experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager for monitoring and observability.

• Experience with Linux software packaging and distribution formats, including DEB, RPM, and Docker.

• Strong scripting skills, particularly with Bash.

• Experience with web security and an understanding of web traffic distribution and related infrastructure concepts.

• Experience working with SQL and object storage, including data handling and related infrastructure workflows.

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab, and CI/CD practices.

• Experience with Golang is a significant advantage.

• A strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and end-to-end automated deployment pipelines.

• Curiosity, enthusiasm, and a genuine desire to continuously learn and improve.

• Strong ownership and decision-making skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and build solutions as part of a team.

• Good time-management and asynchronous communication skills suited to a remote-first engineering environment.

• Ability to work independently while contributing constructively to a collaborative, expert-driven team.

Benefits:

• Fully remote: Work remotely within Europe and enjoy the flexibility of a remote-first engineering environment.

• International environment: Collaborate with distributed teams working across multiple countries and data centers.

• Technical ownership: Take meaningful responsibility for infrastructure, automation, reliability, and operational excellence.

• Modern technology stack: Work with technologies including Linux, GitLab, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse.

• Learning opportunities: Work on challenging infrastructure and web-security problems while continuously expanding your technical expertise.

• Collaborative culture: Join an expert-focused environment built around professional collaboration rather than internal competition.

• Impact and autonomy: Contribute directly to infrastructure decisions and help shape scalable, highly available systems.

• Inclusive workplace: The organization actively encourages applications from diverse backgrounds and is committed to creating an inclusive working environment.

• Location: The role is remote, with candidates required to be based in an eligible European location.