DevOps & Platform Engineering Team Lead

Quick Facts

• Role: DevOps & Platform Engineering Team Lead

Description

Lead a DevOps team and collaborate with product engineering mission teams to prioritize and implement infrastructure, platform, CI/CD, security, and operations. Drive improvements to platform stability, security, scalability, and developer experience while supporting developers with CI/CD and deployment. Ensure observability, automated operations, and reliable backup/restore processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small DevOps team and support professional development with clear responsibilities and priorities.

• Work closely with mission teams to prioritize and deliver infrastructure, platform, CI/CD, security, and operational needs.

• Evolve platform, infrastructure, and operational processes with a focus on stability, security, scalability, and developer experience.

• Support Continuous Integration/Delivery via automated infrastructure, access/permission management, performant CI/CD pipelines, and reliable deployments.

• Plan, implement, and maintain server and cluster infrastructure; ensure architecture decisions are well documented and reusable across teams.

• Establish processes to proactively maintain and update third-party components while balancing speed, stability, and security.

• Ensure infrastructure is recoverable: develop, document, and validate scalable backup and restore strategies through tests and automation.

Requirements

• Relevant experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering; ideally initial leadership experience or readiness for a Team Lead step.

• Fluent German (C1 or higher) in speaking and writing.

• Strong technical understanding of reliable, secure, high-performance operation of modern web applications.

• Proven server and Kubernetes cluster administration experience, plus solid cloud/system architecture knowledge—especially Azure.

• Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform; plus containerization, Kubernetes, and Helm.

• Experience defining, optimizing, and operating CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitLab CI/CD.

• Experience with observability: logging, monitoring, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Elastic APM, Elasticsearch, or Kibana.

• Security experience in platform operations (IAM, least privilege, secret management, vulnerability management, security scanning in CI/CD).

• Ability to prioritize technical work, surface dependencies, and balance short-term delivery with long-term technical quality.

• Clear, dependable communication with developers, Product Owners, engineering leads, and stakeholders.

• Enjoy coaching and pairing; able to collaborate both remote and in the office.

• Ability to explain technical decisions and results clearly.

Benefits

• Annual salary: €75,000–€95,000.

• Hybrid work model with flexible hours; 1–2 shared office days.

• 30+2 vacation days and the option to work up to 30 days per year from EU locations under applicable rules.

• Subsidized Deutschlandticket or free parking; dog-friendly office floors.

• Support for mental health and work-life/family balance.

• Opportunities for professional development and technical training, plus regular exchange with leadership.

• Additional company benefits such as employee discounts, occupational pension, and Lease a Bike.