Senior DevOps Engineer: Sovereign Deployments & Kubernetes

Planet; Graz; Hybrid; EUR 69,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation & holidays

Wellness program

Home office reimbursement

Monthly phone & internet reimbursement

Tuition reimbursement

Equity

Volunteering time off

Job summary

Planet is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, deploy and operate Kubernetes-based production systems. You will work across Graz and Ljubljana, building sovereign deployments with strong SLAs, security and data residency. The role is 3 days per week in our Graz or Ljubljana offices, with hybrid flexibility.

You will implement infrastructure as code, GitOps workflows, monitoring and incident response, while collaborating with software, platform and infra teams across time zones.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE or infrastructure with production experience.
• Bachelor-level technical degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Operate Kubernetes-based platforms across CDSE and sovereign deployments.
• Define IaC and GitOps release workflows for reproducibility.
• Own reliability: SLIs/SLOs, alerts, dashboards, runbooks and post-incident reviews.
• Lead on-call rotations and contribute to security/compliance work.
• Maintain stateful components like PostgreSQL and object storage.
• Mentor teammates; review changes and collaborate across time zones.

Skills

Kubernetes

SRE

Python

Go

Bash

English (written)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Geosciences or related

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitLab CI

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Planet is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, deploy and operate Kubernetes-based production systems. You will work across Graz and Ljubljana, building sovereign deployments with strong SLAs, security and data residency. The role is 3 days per week in our Graz or Ljubljana offices, with hybrid flexibility.

You will implement infrastructure as code, GitOps workflows, monitoring and incident response, while collaborating with software, platform and infra teams across time zones.