Senior DevOps Engineer (Ref: 197453)

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Learning stipend

Hybrid work Berlin

Generous vacation

Equity plan

Zusammenfassung

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy in Berlin seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC standards for mission-critical financial software.

You will own deployment pipelines, reliability, security posture and operational excellence across backend services used by finance teams in Europe.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or cloud engineering roles.
• Hands-on with AWS or GCP at scale.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and container workflows.
• Strong IaC experience with Terraform or equivalents.
• Proven history of managing CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing and SLOs.

Aufgaben

• Architect and operate scalable cloud infra with security and resilience.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multiple service teams.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code standards and modules.
• Lead incident response and post-incident analysis for uptime.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams for safe releases.
• Build observability and alerting aligned with SLOs.
• Drive cost optimisation and capacity planning.

Kenntnisse

DevOps

SRE

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Monitoring

Security

English

German

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tools

Jobbeschreibung

About Us

Our client develops financial software for small and medium-sized enterprises, focusing on payroll, taxation and accounting automation across European markets.

Job Description

The Senior DevOps Engineer will lead the design and operation of cloud infrastructure that supports mission‑critical financial services. The role requires ownership of deployment pipelines, system reliability, security posture and operational excellence for backend services used by finance teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and operate scalable cloud infrastructure with emphasis on security and resilience
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multiple service teams
• Develop and enforce infrastructure-as-code standards and modules
• Lead incident response and post‑incident analysis to improve system uptime
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to enable rapid, safe releases
• Build and maintain observability and alerting systems aligned with SLOs
• Drive cost optimisation and capacity planning

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years experience in DevOps, SRE or cloud engineering roles
• Hands‑on experience with AWS or GCP at scale
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and container workflows
• Strong Terraform or equivalent IaC experience
• Proven history of managing CI/CD tools and pipelines
• Experience with monitoring, logging and tracing tools and SLO practices
• Familiarity with security controls, secret management and compliance
• Excellent English communication skills; German proficiency advantageous

Benefits

• Competitive salary reflective of experience and market rates
• Comprehensive health insurance and retirement contribution options
• Annual learning stipend and access to technical training
• Flexible hybrid work schedule based in Berlin
• Generous vacation and parental leave policies
• Company equity or long-term incentive plan

Other

Applicants with relevant experience in financial systems or compliance are encouraged to apply. This position offers the chance to influence architecture and operational practices across a growing platform serving SMEs in Europe.