DevOps / Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes & Infrastructure as Code)

Quick Facts

• Focus: DevOps / Cloud engineering with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code

• Key activities: Design and operate highly available Kubernetes services, CI/CD, automation, scaling, observability, and security/compliance

Description

You will design and run highly available services on the STACKIT Kubernetes cluster as a performant runtime environment for ServiceNow Shared Services (including AI Search, ML, and Document Intelligence). You will shape and optimize CI/CD with GitLab, automate container workloads with Terraform, Ansible, and Helm, and ensure seamless, high-performance network integration between Kubernetes microservices, ServiceNow application nodes (Java), and load balancer clusters. The role also includes implementing auto-scaling and observability for stability, applying cluster security hardening, and translating technical requirements into scalable cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate highly available services on STACKIT Kubernetes for ServiceNow Shared Services

• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with GitLab

• Advance Infrastructure as Code automation for container workloads using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm

• Ensure reliable, high-performance network integration between Kubernetes microservices, ServiceNow (Java) application nodes, and load balancer clusters

• Implement auto-scaling strategies and observability concepts to meet Sovereign Cloud SLAs

• Apply security hardening (Pod Security, Network Policies) and ensure container compliance (BSI C5, DORA, and others)

• Work in an agile team to translate technical requirements into standardized, scalable cloud architectures

Requirements

• Degree in (business) informatics or comparable technical IT education

• Solid professional experience in Cloud-Native and Kubernetes environments

• Experience maintaining complex Kubernetes setups in enterprise scenarios

• Architecture understanding of distributed microservices with database-centric enterprise applications (e.g., ServiceNow backend)

• Practical experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform and Ansible

• Experience building modern CI/CD pipelines with GitLab

• Lived DevOps culture and affinity for agile methods

• Understanding of requirements for highly secure cloud hosting operations

• Strong communication skills; very good German and good English

• Fast learning and solution-oriented, independent working style

Benefits

• Work at the interface of agility and security

• Fast decision-making and room to shape your projects

• Stable foundation from the Schwarz Group