DevOps Engineer

Our client, a prominent insurance company based in Germany, is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their dynamic team. This position is fully remote, but occasional travel to Germany will be required based on project needs. The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 5 years of experience and be fluent in English at a C1 level.

Key Responsibilities:

- Kubernetes & Istio Administration: Manage, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes clusters and service meshes using Istio.

- AWS Expertise: Extensive experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, ensuring reliability and scalability.

- Web Server & Security Administration: Administration of web servers, load balancers, and web application firewalls (Akamai), ensuring secure and efficient operations.

- Certificate Management: Oversee the administration and lifecycle of SSL/TLS certificates.

- Infrastructure as Code: Use Hashicorp Terraform and Packer to automate and streamline infrastructure management.

- CI/CD Pipelines: Manage and improve Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines using Jenkins.

- DevOps Mindset: You will be responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining the infrastructure and taking ownership of your work ("You build it, you run it").

Required Skills:

- Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps roles

- Kubernetes and Istio administration

- AWS cloud services experience

- Administration of web servers, load balancers, WAF (Akamai)

- Certificate management experience

- Proficiency with Hashicorp Terraform and Packer

- Jenkins administration and CI/CD pipeline management

- Strong DevOps mindset and hands-on approach

Nice to Have Skills (Optional):

- Experience with Crossplane for Kubernetes administration

- Experience with GitHub Actions

- Development experience with Kotlin or Java

- Monitoring experience with Dynatrace

- Experience with SQL (Postgres) and database management

- Familiarity with Message Brokers / Event Streaming systems like Kafka or MQ

Languages:

English fluency (C1 level required)