Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE to design, build, and maintain Google Cloud Platform infrastructure using Terraform. You will own CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, establish patterns, and optimise tooling to boost developer productivity.

You will lead incident response, define SLOs, monitor with Datadog, and collaborate with platform and product teams to reduce toil, improve reliability, and harden security across environments.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or backend engineering in production environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure in at least one cloud provider, ideally Google Cloud Platform
• Track record of owning and shipping automation, pipelines, or infrastructure that made a team measurably more productive or reliable.
• Enthusiasm for developer productivity and improving workflows.
• Deep experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally Terraform, and building CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions.
• Proficient software engineering ability and strong command of Linux.
• Strong instincts for monitoring and observability, with debugging across logs, traces, and metrics.
• Nice to have: healthcare, digital health, HIPAA, PHI, SOC 2
• Nice to have: Docker and Kubernetes experience
• Nice to have: incident response/on-call/postmortem experience
• Nice to have: database migrations or multi-environment management expertise

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and maintain Google Cloud Platform infrastructure using Terraform
• Define infrastructure patterns and standards
• Own and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
• Identify and eliminate operational toil through scalable automation and tooling
• Establish monitoring, dashboards, and alerting in Datadog
• Reduce alert noise across team systems
• Lead incident response within the on-call rotation and drive postmortems
• Define and track Service Level Objectives for core infrastructure and build systems
• Partner with product engineering teams on deployment pipelines, environment issues, and build troubleshooting
• Own preview and staging environments, including data synchronization, masking, and cleanup
• Improve developer experience through tooling, runbooks, and documentation
• Write tested and reviewed infrastructure code
• Lead design reviews and RFCs
• Design systems balancing reliability, performance, and security
• Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers through pairing, knowledge sharing, and documentation
• Collaborate with the Tech Lead, DevOps, Platform, Data Engineering, and domain product teams

Kenntnisse

Terraform

Google Cloud Platform

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Linux

Monitoring/Observability

Debugging

Developer Productivity

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Google Cloud Platform

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Jobbeschreibung

• Design, build, and maintain Google Cloud Platform infrastructure using Terraform
• Define infrastructure patterns and standards
• Own and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
• Identify and eliminate operational toil through scalable automation and tooling
• Establish monitoring, dashboards, and alerting in Datadog
• Reduce alert noise across team systems
• Lead incident response within the on-call rotation and drive postmortems and follow-ups
• Define and track Service Level Objectives for core infrastructure and build systems
• Partner with product engineering teams on deployment pipelines, environment issues, and build troubleshooting
• Own preview and staging environments, including data synchronization, masking, and cleanup
• Improve developer experience through tooling, runbooks, and documentation
• Write tested and reviewed infrastructure code
• Lead design reviews and RFCs
• Design systems balancing reliability, performance, and security
• Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers through pairing, knowledge sharing, and documentation
• Collaborate with the Tech Lead, DevOps, Platform, Data Engineering, and domain product teams

Requirements

• ~5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or backend engineering in production environments
• Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure in at least one cloud provider, ideally Google Cloud Platform
• Track record of owning and shipping automation, pipelines, or infrastructure that made a team measurably more productive or reliable
• Enthusiasm for developer productivity
• Deep experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally Terraform, and building CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions
• Proficient software engineering ability and strong command of Linux
• Strong instincts for monitoring and observability, with confident debugging across logs, traces, and metrics
• Solid experience with relational databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, and containerized workloads
• Strong grounding in reliability, performance, and security fundamentals, with sound tradeoff judgment
• Nice to have: experience in healthcare, digital health, or regulated domains, including HIPAA, PHI, or SOC 2
• Nice to have: experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Nice to have: exposure to incident response, on-call, and postmortem practices
• Nice to have: experience with database migrations or managing multiple environments at scale

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and maintaining Google Cloud Platform infrastructure using Terraform, with a strong focus on CI/CD pipeline ownership and automation. Proficient in monitoring, incident response, and enhancing developer productivity through effective tooling and documentation.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Google Cloud Platform
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Linux

Hard Skills

• Infrastructure-As-Code
• Monitoring and Observability
• Relational Databases
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Containerized Workloads
• Incident Response
• Database Migrations
• Automation
• Debugging

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Mentoring
• Knowledge Sharing
• Enthusiasm for Developer Productivity

Industry Keywords

• Healthcare
• Digital Health
• HIPAA
• PHI
• SOC 2

Tools & Technologies

• Datadog
• Docker
• Kubernetes