We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, secure, and operate our robust development infrastructure across on‑premise and Azure environments. In this role, you will help drive our evolution towards Platform Engineering by enabling self-service capabilities, automation, and a secure software delivery lifecycle. 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 development platform: Manage, scale, and evolve our development infrastructure, tools, and platform services across on-premises and cloud environments, with Azure DevOps as the CI/CD backbone
• Automate infrastructure delivery: Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Ansible and Terraform to ensure scalable, repeatable, and reliable platform deployments.
• Build secure CI/CD pipelines: Implement and maintain multi-stage pipelines with integrated security controls, quality gates, and automated testing, following DevSecOps best practices.
• Establish AI capabilities: Build and evolve platforms, tooling, and processes for agentic AI solutions, AI-enabled engineering, and self-hosted LLM services.
• Observability: Establish and evolve monitoring, logging and alerting to ensure operational excellence.
• Mentor & collaborate: Work closely with development teams in Germany and India, promote engineering standards, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Operational excellence: Create documentation, runbooks, and knowledge assets while participating in incident response and critical delivery activities.

Required Skills

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Solid understanding of DevSecOps principles, secure software delivery, vulnerability management, and security automation.
• Proven experience with hybrid infrastructure environments based on VMware ESXi/vSphere and Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, like Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with containerized application platforms and OpenShift environments.
• Familiarity building or operating internal developer platforms, self-service solutions, or shared engineering platforms.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools.
• Experience leveraging AI tools in daily engineering workflows to improve productivity, automation, and knowledge sharing.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across international teams and IT disciplines, including infrastructure, networking, security, and cloud.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in German and English.