Senior DevOps Engineer (m/w/d)

As part of our three-person DevOps team, you'll work closely with around 25 colleagues from product development, spread across four product-oriented mission teams. Together, you'll operate and develop a platform that enables our product teams to deliver modern web applications reliably, securely, and with high performance. Your focus will be on stable infrastructure, efficient CI/CD processes, automation, and a positive developer experience.

• You will support our developers in the continuous integration and delivery of our products through automated infrastructure provisioning, permission management, high-performance CI/CD pipelines, and deployment setup.
• You will be responsible for the planning, implementation, and maintenance of our server and cluster infrastructure.
• You establish and monitor processes for the proactive maintenance and updating of third-party components.
• You ensure that our infrastructure is reliably recoverable. To achieve this, you develop and document scalable backup and restore strategies and validate them regularly through testing and automation.
• You will design and improve business continuity and disaster recovery strategies for our critical platforms and services.
• You implement compliance requirements regarding data retention and deletion, encryption, and secret management.

Our stack:

• Microsoft Azure
• Terraform
• Docker, Debian, Alpine
• Kubernetes, Helm
• Prometheus, Loki, Grafana
• Elastic-APM, Elasticsearch, Kibana
• Gitlab CI/CD

• You bring relevant professional experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer and you care deeply about the reliability, performance and security of web applications.
• Fluent German skills, both spoken and written (at least C1 level).
• You have sound knowledge of server and Kubernetes cluster administration.
• You have good knowledge of cloud and system architectures.
• You have experience in containerizing applications in various programming languages ​​and frameworks, in our case: Rails and Next.js.
• You have experience in defining CI/CD pipelines.
• You have a good understanding of observability, logging, monitoring, and alerting methods for operating web applications.
• Our work requires intensive communication with your colleagues. Therefore, you should be communicative and a team player.
• We do a lot of work through pairing – whether remotely or in the office. You should feel comfortable working with other people simultaneously and explaining results.

You don't meet all the requirements, but you're passionate about the tasks? No worries, apply anyway and we'll discuss together whether it's a good fit!

• A management team that understands the importance of clean IT architecture and allocates time for addressing tech debt and refactoring.
• An annual salary between €60,000 and €90,000, depending on prior experience.
• A workplace in a state-of-the-art office in the heart of Bochum and a hybrid working model where we meet in the office one day a week.
• Flexible working hours and 30 + 2 days of vacation help you to balance family/leisure and work.
• The option, within the framework of the regulatory possibilities, to work from another EU country for up to 30 days per year.
• A subsidized Germany ticket for just under €25 per month or alternatively free parking spaces.
• The option to bring your own dog to the office on two dog-friendly floors.
• Support in the areas of mental health and work-life balance is provided by our partner nilo.
• Challenging tasks in a dynamically developing company and a creative working environment with plenty of scope for design.
• A well-functioning team with friendly colleagues who are passionate about their work and want to contribute to the sustainable growth of our company.
• Open and regular communication with your manager, who always keeps an eye on the personal development of employees. In addition, professional development opportunities are available as needed.
• Numerous benefits thanks to the Bertelsmann background: employee discounts, company pension scheme, bike leasing, …

Diversity makes us better. At Ausbildung.de, we value different perspectives and want to create an environment where everyone is welcome – regardless of origin, gender, identity, age, religion, or disability. We welcome every qualified application, no matter the background.

We look forward to meeting you!
Apply now to Erik (Team Lead DevOps & Principal Platform Engineer) and Vanessa (People & Culture Manager) and become part of our team. For the future of work.

If you have any questions about the job posting, you can reach Vanessa at jobs@ausbildung.services