Senior DevOps Engineer (gn) – Lead Role
Remote · Germany
Job Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer (gn) – Lead Role responsible for owning cloud infrastructure end-to-end (AWS including EKS, MSK, RDS, S3, IAM and small-scale Azure workloads) with Terraform provisioning, driving cost optimization and capacity planning. Lead CI/CD landscape (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm) with rollbacks and progressive delivery, and build self-service platform capabilities enabling product teams to deploy independently. Define SLIs/SLOs, strengthen observability with Datadog, and enhance cloud and pipeline security posture (network policies, secrets management, container security, ISO 27001 controls) while improving supply-chain security and access governance. Lead and develop the DevOps team (1 internal engineer + 2 external FTEs) and establish intake/prioritization/communication processes.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering, including 2+ years in a senior or lead function
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes (preferably EKS), GitOps and observability (Datadog)
- Deep AWS expertise (IAM, VPC, MSK/Kafka, RDS, S3); experience with Azure or GCP is a plus
- Solid understanding of infrastructure security: network policies, secrets, container scanning, IAM and ISO 27001
- Experience leading a small team and collaborating across multiple stakeholders
- Ability to translate infrastructure concerns into business impact
- builder mindset
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