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.
More about the role
- You develop and implement tools that streamline platform interaction for developers.
- You adapt and continuously evolve our existing infrastructure-as-code setups and configurations (Terraform, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm).
- You maintain and manage our clusters and platform services to ensure they remain up-to-date.
- You identify and proactively address reliability issues in our services and applications.
- You create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including manuals, concept overviews, best practice guides and reference materials.
- You provide expert advice and support to teams and their members in resolving technical challenges.
- If you are passionate about people development, we offer the opportunity to assume disciplinary management responsibility for up to four engineers, potentially outside your immediate project. In this role as a People Lead, you will support their growth through mentoring, coaching and career planning.
Your profile
- You possess in-depth experience with cloud infrastructure and containerization technologies (Docker, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform), as well as the Kubernetes environment.
- You are proficient in a relevant programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby, Java).
- You have a strong understanding of Linux system administration and fundamental networking principles.
- You are well-versed in DevSecOps, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code best practices, and CI/CD tools.
- You have extensive experience with one or more major cloud service providers (such as AWS, GCP, Azure), ideally including migration projects.
- You are committed to continuous learning, readily adopting new languages and technologies and selecting the optimal tool for each challenge.
- You thrive in agile team environments, valuing constructive discussions and regular feedback.
- You are solution-oriented, effectively navigating challenges within the context of public administration.
- You are intrinsically motivated to advance the digitization of public administration.
- We use both English and German in our daily work.
Your can find more information about Software Engineering @ DigitalService in our blog article here.
Why us?
- 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.
- 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 for this position is between 76,000 - 90,000 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 introductory conversations. Details on our level and salary system can be found in this blog post.
Our Additional Benefits:
- Modern office at Moritzplatz in Kreuzberg.
- Free choice of Mac, Linux, and Windows.
- Individually usable budget of 50 euros, e.g., for food, technology, or mobility.
- Annual training budget of up to €2,000 and five training days.
- Workation of up to six weeks in European foreign countries.
- Attractive company pension scheme.
- Professional support for your mental health through nilo.health.
Recruiting Process & Contact Person
We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment. We therefore welcome all applications - regardless of religion, nationality, (ethnic) origin, gender, age, worldview, sexual identity or disability.
We only check incoming applications for their professional qualifications and the key qualifications required for the respective position. Therefore, we would like to ask you to refrain from including a photo in your CV and to remove information about your place of residence, age, gender, marital status or similar. We will provide you with all the information about the further selection process in the screening call.
Do you have any questions for us? Your contact person is Sara Eisermann (sara.eisermann@digitalservice.bund.de).