Senior DevOps Engineer (all genders)
Permanent Employment · Full time or Part time · Berlin + hybrid
About Us
As the federal government's central digitization unit, we measurably improve citizen interaction with the state through user-centric digital services. Beyond our own iterative product development, we drive the digital transformation of public administration by advocating for enhanced framework conditions for digital product development.
Your Responsibilities
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and building platform services that empower project teams to develop scalable and reliable cloud-native applications, ensuring their reliability. You will also cultivate and share expertise in areas such as cloud engineering, SRE, and DevOps across the platform and project teams, and the wider organization. More information about the platform team can be found here.
What You'll Do
- Build and Optimize Platform Infrastructure: Design, implement and optimize infrastructure-as-code setups (Terraform, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm) to streamline developer workflows and ensure high performance of our clusters.
- Ensure Service Reliability & SRE Implementation: Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to proactively maintain service reliability. This includes creating technical documentation with best practices and providing expert support to teams facing technical challenges.
- Develop Tools & Enhance Platform Interaction: Build tools to streamline platform interaction for developers.
- Lead and Develop Engineers: Mentor, coach, and provide career guidance to up to four engineers. Get a glimpse into the People Lead experience from one of our own engineers.
What You're Equipped With
- Core Infrastructure & Containerization: Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure and containerization technologies including Docker, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Programming & System Skills: Proficiency in relevant programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Java). Strong understanding of Linux system administration and fundamental networking principles.
- DevOps & Cloud Expertise: Well-versed in DevSecOps, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code best practices and CI/CD tools. Extensive experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), ideally including migration projects.
- Problem-Solving & Collaboration: A solution-oriented mindset, strong teamwork and a commitment to continuous learning. You thrive in agile environments, value constructive discussions and feedback and quickly adapt to new technologies, choosing the right tools for the task.
- Motivation for Public Service: You're excited about the idea of digitalizing public administration and are comfortable working in English (German is a plus).
Why Join Our Team
- Become part of a mission-driven team that shares a common vision: to develop user-centered digital solutions with the federal administration.
- Our over 50 engineers (all genders) are characterized by technical excellence, very high team and communication skills, and a genuine agile mindset. And of course, we look forward to you as a new team member. You can find more information about Software Engineering @DigitalService in our blog article here.
- Our growing organization offers ideal conditions for now over 200 digital experts. “New Work” is not a project for us, but an integral part of our culture. Flexible working hours, spaces for (hybrid) collaboration, efficient tool use, high employee orientation, and a self-image as a learning organization characterize us.
- Our compensation system is based on comparability, reliability, and fairness. The salary range for this position is between 73.500 - 84.000 euros gross per year (full-time). For your individual classification within our salary bands and levels, we take into account the scope of responsibility of the position, the complexity of the activities, and the assessment of your skills from the interviews. Details on our level and salary system can be found in this blog post.
Our Benefits & Perks
- Compensation & Financial Security: Competitive salary, attractive pension scheme, and individual budget (e.g., for food, technology, or mobility).
- Work Environment & Culture: Modern office, choice of tech, and agile, iterativeprinciples.
- Learning & Development: Annual training budget of up to €2,000 and five training days.
- Work-Life Integration: Flexible hours and workation options of up to six weeks in European countries.
- Health & Well-being: Professional support for your mental health through nilo.health.
Who to contact
We champion diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of religion, nationality, ethnicity, gender, age, worldview, sexual identity, or disability. To ensure fair and unbiased evaluation, we ask that you omit photos and personal details like residence, age, or marital status from your CV.
We will provide details about the selection process during the screening call.
We're here to support you! Reach out to our Talent Acquisition Team, Sara and Corinna at sara.eisermann@digitalservice.bund.de or corinna.kley@digitalservice.bund.de.