We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, secure, and operate our robust development infrastructure across both on‑premise systems and Azure. In this role, you will ensure operational excellence throughout our development, build, test, and deployment environments. You will be part of a cross‑site, Kanban‑driven DevSecOps team spanning Germany and India, supporting more than 200 developers while helping to ensure secure and reliable product delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Own the hybrid development landscape: Manage, scale and evolve our development infrastructure, environment, tools and auxiliary systems, with Azure DevOps (on-premise and cloud) as the CI/CD backbone, VMWare ESXi/vSphere as the core virtualization infrastructure and Azure for our cloud-based environments.
• Build secure CI/CD pipelines: Implement and maintain multi‑stage pipelines (build, test, scan, deploy) with quality gates and integrated security throughout (SAST, DAST, SCA, container and infrastructure scanning) following OWASP DevSecOps guidance.
• Automate everything with IaC: Implement end‑to‑end automation using Ansible, Terraform, and Azure ARM/Bicep—including VM lifecycle automation on VMware, repeatable environment builds and golden images/templates.
• Provision and operate developer environments: Provide and support standardized, secure environments for our development teams, ensuring reliable build, test, and deployment workflows across Windows and Linux.
• Containerization & orchestration: Standardize Docker container builds and orchestration for reliable, reproducible deployments.
• Artifact & code management: Administer Git (incl. Git LFS) and artifact repositories (e.g., Nexus), manage the releases of our multiple customer products.
• Observability & reliability: Establish and evolve monitoring, logging, and alerting; drive performance tuning, capacity planning and cost optimization.
• Mentor & collaborate: Provide technical leadership and coaching to engineers and collaborate closely with product development teams in Germany and India to drive standards and continuous improvement.
• Operational excellence: Create runbooks, documentation and feed AI based knowledge bots; participate in incident response and support critical go‑live periods as needed.

Required skills

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.• Experienced to effectively leverage AI copilots and AI-assisted productivity tools
• Deep expertise with Azure DevOps and modern CI/CD practices for both on-premise and cloud environments.
• Strong scripting and IaC knowledge, including Ansible, ARM, Bicep, Terraform.
• Solid security engineering proficiency, covering secure systems, secure pipelines, vulnerability scanning, and adherence to compliance frameworks.
• Hands‑on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration.
• Proven experience with VMware ESXi/vSphere.
• Experience with installation and configuration of JBoss, Wildfly, Nginx, ActiveMQ, MS SQL Server or Oracle Server is an advantage.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially when working with international, distributed engineering teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in German and English.