About the job

Senior DevOps Engineer — Berlin — Permanent — €85,500

A German federal technology company in central Berlin is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer on a permanent contract.

This is a private cloud platform built and run in-house. Not a managed public cloud estate.

The package

• €85,592 per annum
• Permanent, unbefristeter Vertrag — direct employment
• Up to 31 days home office per quarter
• 30 days holiday
• Company pension and vermögenswirksame Leistungen
• Individual training plus specialist and leadership development programmes
• Support with childcare and family care
• Central Berlin, strong public transport links

What you will do

• Design, build and configure CI/CD pipelines and keep deployments running cleanly
• Implement application and user security with LDAP, SAML2, OIDC and Keycloak
• Build, operate and maintain Postgres and MariaDB
• Automate deployments using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Kustomize and ArgoCD
• Deploy and operate GitLab, Artifactory, Vault, Argo Workflows and Superset
• Run on-premise secrets, password, repository and source code management
• Work with the Quality team on test automation
• Take technical ownership of Private Cloud Platform services

What you need

• Computer science degree or Fachinformatiker qualification with comparable practical experience
• Confident with Kubernetes manifests, Helm and Kustomize
• Working knowledge of Ansible and Terraform
• Strong CI/CD experience, particularly Day 2 operations
• Comfortable in Linux environments
• Hands-on container orchestration — Kubernetes and OpenShift
• Agile delivery experience — Scrum or Kanban
• German at C1 or above, written and spoken

• Security vetting applies — country of birth must be outside the German Staatenliste restricted list. EU or EEA citizenship is not required.