Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes

Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

€90,000

Munich / Remote

We are partnered with an extremely exciting SaaS solution to bring your API business strategy to the next level.

They embrace cultural diversity with an adaptive mindset. Their core driver is integrating business processes and customer engagement into API management. 

They are looking to expand their DevOps team with a proactive, automaton-driven Senior DevOps Engineer who will bring experience and expertise to improve our software and infrastructure with 5 years of experience under their belt.
As Senior Engineer we are expecting self-drive, accountable Engineer who can lead features team within their solution.

Tech Stack:

You will work directly with Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, Kafka, Keycloak, Kong, Spring Boot, and Azure Cloud

Your Role and Responsibilities

In the role of Senior DevOps specialist, you will work within the TechOps team to define and implement the best security solutions and practices in all aspects of Information Security and ensure the engineering teams adhere to these. This hands-on position provides tools and technical planning to help teams focus on building highly secure software quickly.

• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them
• Build and implement solutions across the product life-cycle, such as CI/CD pipeline integrations, standalone security tooling, and process or workflow automation
• Continuously innovate and keep abreast of the latest IaaC practices, methods, and approaches and help ensure the product remains technically at the forefront of its field
• You produce Technical Documentation and Architecture Diagrams for automation pipelines and integrations.
• Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to improve processes companywide continually
• Take ownership of issues and act with a high sense of urgency when required
• Participate in on-call rotation, to support infrastructure and application incidents

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and Ansible
• Strong experience Monitoring, Deploying Kubernetes (at least 4 years)
• Familiarity with source control systems like Git and Github
• Automation-first approach to application and infrastructure deployment, setup, and configuration with regard to required security controls
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (preferably Azure, Google, AWS)
• Experience with Building Pipelines
• Experience in Containerization and Orchestration.
• Experience with API gateways and service meshes
• Strong communication, collaboration, and presentation skills
• Openness to new topics and challenges
• 5 years of DevOps experience

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Ability to thrive working with a team of people from different backgrounds in a highly collaborative, time-sensitive environment.
• Strong problem-solving (and problem-avoiding) skills and attention to detail (Application behavior, Networking, Security)
• Experience with Azure services and technologies.
• Scripting skills (Python, Go, etc.)
• Experience being on-call
• Good communication skills and a team-oriented approach

What You Can Look Forward To

• An exciting opportunity in an innovative and growing company with open communication
• Flat hierarchies and the freedom to work independently.
• Quarterly team- and company events
• Home office (within Germany and up to 100%), plus the option to work abroad for a limited number of days.
• Flexible working hours, reimbursement for overtime and a competitive salary
• Open feedback culture and the opportunity to introduce your ideas.
• Personal training budget and participation in relevant industry events, plus conferences
• Various opportunities to develop yourself professionally and personally in specialist and management functions.
• A modern office space in a central location and a cool startup vibe