Senior DevOps Engineer

Jobtailor; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor in Berlin seeks an experienced platform engineer to optimize our CI/CD pipeline, scale Kubernetes on AWS (EKS), and advance infrastructure as code practices.

You will build dashboards and alerts, tighten security standards, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguity into concrete, measurable improvements. This role offers a challenging environment and impact across engineering teams.

Qualifikationen

• Kubernetes and cloud expertise: 5+ years running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and debugging distributed systems
• CI/CD expertise: strong experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar) and improving pipeline reliability
• Infrastructure as Code: experience with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools and building reusable infrastructure patterns
• Observability knowledge: practical experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana)
• Security mindset: understanding IAM, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and secure operational practices
• Collaborative approach: comfortable working cross-functionally and driving technical initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes

Aufgaben

• Improve CI reliability and developer productivity across CI/CD systems
• Strengthen observability and incident readiness with dashboards, alerts, and SLOs
• Operate and evolve Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS for safe deployments and scalable infra
• Drive infrastructure automation using Pulumi and TypeScript; build reusable platform primitives and self-service patterns
• Improve security and governance across infrastructure and engineering workflows
• Identify major cost drivers and improve cost visibility and ownership across teams

Kenntnisse

Kubernetes

AWS/EKS

CI/CD

Observability

Security Mindset

Cross-functional Collaboration

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Grafana

Vault

TypeScript

Jobbeschreibung

Responsibilities

• Improve CI reliability & developer productivity: Reduce flaky pipelines and shorten feedback loops across CI/CD systems to improve developer experience and delivery speed
• Strengthen observability & incident readiness: Build actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for key user journeys to help teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster
• Operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform: Manage and improve our AWS EKS environment, ensuring safe deployments, runtime reliability, and scalable infrastructure
• Drive infrastructure automation: Expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Pulumi and TypeScript; build reusable platform primitives and self-service patterns for engineering teams
• Improve security & governance: Strengthen access management, secrets handling, and secure defaults across infrastructure and engineering workflows
• Optimize infrastructure costs: Identify major cost drivers such as data transfer, compute usage, and logging; improve cost visibility and ownership across teams

Requirements

• Kubernetes & cloud expertise: At least 5 years production experience running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and troubleshooting distributed systems
• CI/CD expertise: Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar) and a track record of improving pipeline reliability
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools and building reusable infrastructure patterns
• Observability knowledge: Practical experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring tools such as Grafana
• Security mindset: Understanding of IAM, access control, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and secure operational practices
• Collaborative approach: Comfortable working cross-functionally and driving technical initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes