DevOps Engineer

[Company name], a B2B SMB in [industry] based in [city], [X] employees, [X] M€ ARR, is looking for a DevOps Engineer to strengthen an engineering team of [X] developers.

Your mission

You design, build and operate our platform (cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, observability, secrets management, backup and disaster recovery), independently on familiar topics and in alignment on structuring decisions. You share responsibility for production (on-call or standby depending on the organization) and enable the app teams to ship safe and observable services to production. You report to the [Tech Lead / CTO / technical management].

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and operate cloud infrastructure and the Kubernetes platform as infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, Argo CD or comparable).
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines: reproducible builds, staged tests, safe deployments (rolling, blue-green, canary depending on risk).
• Operate and evolve the observability stack (centralized logs, metrics, distributed tracing, SLO and error-budget hygiene, sensible alerts).
• Lead or support production incidents (on-call or standby), co-write post-mortems, update runbooks, implement systemic fixes.
• Implement security and compliance requirements at the platform level (IAM, secrets manager, Network Policies, image signing, audit logs, policy-as-code).
• Build self-service workflows and templates for the app teams so developers can ship safe services to production independently.
• Document important technical decisions and non-trivial complexity zones (ADR or equivalent).
• Work with development teams, security and data-protection functions, PM and management on the platform roadmap and concrete requirements; constructively challenge unfeasible or counterproductive requests.

Profile

• Required: [3 to 7] years of professional experience in a DevOps, SRE or platform-engineering environment; solid command of at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) including IAM, networking and compute; experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes or comparable), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or comparable); independent production ownership with on-call or standby experience.
• Desired: familiarity with our stack [to be completed]; experience with GitOps (Argo CD, Flux), service mesh, policy-as-code (OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno) or compliance-heavy environments (BaFin, KRITIS, ISO 27001); open-source contributions or visible side projects (Terraform modules, Helm charts, kubectl plugins).
• Disqualifying: no experience with independent production ownership; blanket rejection of on-call or standby despite the operational requirement; blanket rejection of infrastructure-as-code or observability as bureaucracy.

What we offer

• Gross annual compensation: [58 to 92] k€ depending on experience. No structural variable; possibly VSOP or ESOP depending on the company's stage. On-call pay handled separately as a standby allowance plus call-out hours.
• Model: [full-time, hybrid 2 to 3 days / week on-site, based in [city] / remote-friendly].
• Benefits: [company pension, bike leasing, employee shares, vacation days, home-office policy, hardware budget, professional-development budget, conferences].
• Stack: [to be completed: cloud provider, orchestration, IaC tool, CI/CD system, observability stack, secrets management, backup and DR setup].