Senior DevOps Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

• Location: Frankfurt am Main (or Ratingen), with home office/hybrid options

• Focus: DevOps platforms, Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD automation, security/compliance, and LLMOps/AI-assisted engineering

Description

You will design and operate production-grade DevOps and infrastructure automation for Linux-based environments, microservices, and web applications. The role includes managing CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters, cloud deployments, monitoring/observability, and 3rd-level incident handling while applying security and compliance best practices. You will also integrate AI-assisted engineering tools and help run LLMOps platforms for reliable enterprise Large Language Model operations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver challenging IT projects from conception and rollout to stable production operations

• Ensure reliability by administering and continuously improving Linux-based environments, microservices, and web applications

• Configure DevOps pipelines with a focus on continuous integration and delivery

• Integrate and productively use AI-assisted engineering (e.g., Claude Code) to support development and operations

• Design and operate LLMOps platforms for reliable enterprise use of Large Language Models

• Implement and operate Docker environments

• Promote automation and standardization while ensuring stable application operations within the team

• Provide 3rd-level support for complex system landscapes with sustainable error analysis and remediation

• Use collaboration tools professionally to support knowledge sharing, transparency, and efficient teamwork

• Meet regulatory and operational requirements, ensuring compliance with IT operations and security obligations (e.g., operating concepts and IT security)

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, or Platform Engineering

• Very strong knowledge of DevOps platforms, especially GitLab

• Experience with application operations and automated deployments

• Proven experience with Kubernetes and/or Red Hat OpenShift 4, including enterprise cluster administration

• Experience with cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, and/or GCP

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build/test/deployment automation (e.g., Jenkins or GitLab CI)

• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code and scripting (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Shell, Go, Python)

• Container technology experience (e.g., Docker)

• Knowledge of monitoring and observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic, Splunk, Opsgenie)

• Security-related experience with BSI IT-Grundschutz, Zero Trust, secret management, and IAM (LDAP, SAML, OIDC, OAuth2)

• Ability to perform structured troubleshooting, incident handling, and crisis communication

• German and English proficiency at C1/C2 level

• Residency in Germany

• Linux system administration experience

• Experience with storage and platform technologies (e.g., Ceph, OpenShift Data Foundation) and network/DDI knowledge is a plus

• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) and interest in evaluating their use in Ops contexts

• Initial experience operating LLM infrastructure (e.g., API gateways, model routing, GPU workloads) is a plus