Senior (Lead) DevOps Engineer

Our client is a German company specializing in human resources software and payroll-as-a-service solutions, offering products and services in personnel management. As a DevOps Engineer, you will work together with your colleagues on the central components of the cloud landscape and ensure that cross-product communication is guaranteed.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will work closely with our development teams and the team that operates our SaaS solution. Robust operability through automated processes and monitoring is always a priority. 
• You will build our observability (monitoring, alerting) platform with e.g. Prometheus and Grafana and optimize it for a SaaS operation. 
• You will work with our operations team to provide production or test environments and releases for our customers. 
• You will work closely with the development teams to continuously improve and automate the development experience (e.g. build & deployment processes - currently based on Jenkins, Nexus ...).
• The current solution is on-prem, cloud migration will be planned but not in near future

Key Skills & Competencies:

• It is important to you to automate the infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code. 
• You have automated the development processes with Jenkins or similar CI/CD systems - including the necessary toolchain such as Nexus. 
• You have experience in operating applications in the web environment, the necessary monitoring and alerting and ideally also reliability management. 
• Experience with IBM Power Systems is a plus, or a willingness to learn and adapt to it while on the job
• You are analytically and conceptually strong, have deep expertise in the relevant technologies (e.g. IaC – Ansible, Build & Deploy systems) and an overview of current developments. 
• As a DevOps Engineer, you have at least 5 years of relevant professional experience.