Senior DevOps Engineer

Microservice Solutions GmbH; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Health insurance

Professional development budget

Fully remote work

Job summary

Microservice Solutions GmbH seeks an experienced DevOps/SRE to design, build, and run cloud infrastructure and delivery systems that scale reliably. You will work across AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, and automation to ensure production readiness and observability.

Responsibilities include maintaining CI/CD pipelines, IaC tooling, and security controls, while optimizing costs and documenting runbooks and procedures. Fully remote role with flexible hours and opportunities for certification.

Qualifications

• Five+ years in DevOps, site reliability, or systems engineering.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud platform, plus Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, observability tools, networking, load balancing, and DNS.
• Understanding of infrastructure security practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, including Kubernetes environments for microservices.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and automate deployments, including strategies that minimize downtime.
• Manage infrastructure as code and configuration, using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting; troubleshoot incidents and improve system performance.
• Apply security controls, manage access, and support backup and disaster recovery processes.
• Improve cloud cost and resource use, and document architecture, runbooks, and operating procedures.

Skills

DevOps

Site reliability

Systems engineering

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Scripting

Infrastructure as code

Cloud platforms

Go

Python

Bash

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Role overview

Build and operate cloud infrastructure and delivery systems that support reliable, scalable services. The work spans cloud architecture, Kubernetes, automation, observability, security, and production operations, with close collaboration across development teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, including Kubernetes environments for microservices.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and automate deployments, including strategies that minimize downtime.
• Manage infrastructure as code and configuration, using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting; troubleshoot incidents and improve system performance.
• Apply security controls, manage access, and support backup and disaster recovery processes.
• Improve cloud cost and resource use, and document architecture, runbooks, and operating procedures.

Requirements

• At least five years in DevOps, site reliability, or systems engineering.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud platform, plus Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, observability tools, networking, load balancing, and DNS.
• Understanding of infrastructure security practices.

Nice to have

• Experience with serverless services, configuration management, databases and backups, vulnerability scanning, or compliance requirements.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or DevOps projects.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote work and flexible hours.
• The listing also mentions unlimited vacation, health insurance, and a professional development budget for certifications and conferences.