Senior DevOps/ Cloud Engineer

• You set up, maintain, and troubleshoot customer installations, managing both high-standard SaaS environments and restrictive customer on-premise deployments.
• You operate and scale our core AWS infrastructure, managing multi-account environments, EKS, RDS, S3, networking, and IAM.
• You support our development team with product operations, maintaining and extending GitLab CI/CD pipelines, driving declarative GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Kargo), and managing incident response.
• You develop the Accurids SaaS platform stack, focusing on enhancing platform automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), identity management, and advanced observability.
• You drive our security operations, building out our compliance posture through log reviews, vulnerability scanning, active monitoring, alerting, and supporting ISO 27001 requirements.
• You ensure operational resilience and continuity, working as a key senior pillar to transition our infrastructure from a single-point-of-failure risk to a robust, well-documented architecture.

Do you have experience in Windows?, * Adaptability & Continuous Learning: A strong engineering mindset with a proven ability to pick up new tools, architectures, and methodologies rapidly as our ecosystem evolves.

• Cloud & Infrastructure Foundation: 3-5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering, with production exposure to a major cloud provider (we use AWS, but Azure or GCP experience is just as welcome).
• Containerization Concepts: Solid foundational knowledge of the Kubernetes ecosystem, Docker containerization, and configuring CI/CD pipelines (such as GitLab CI).
• Modern Operations (Our Stack): Familiarity with-or a strong desire to learn-Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and declarative GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Kargo).
• Observability & Security Awareness: Observability & Security: Familiarity with cloud security tooling and monitoring/observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch). Experience building a security posture is a strong plus.
• Core Competencies: Business fluency in English and an openness to integrating AI-assisted tools (like Cursor, Copilot, or ChatGPT) into your daily scripting and debugging workflows. (It's a nice-to-have bonus if you have prior experience with Elasticsearch, Keycloak, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, or compliance frameworks like ISO 27001!)

• Hybrid work model: Work from our Cologne office with flexible hybrid arrangements.
• 30 days of paid vacation for a healthy work-life balance.
• Competitive salary package aligned with your experience and impact.
• Personal growth and development: Access a flexible budget for training, conferences, or other learning opportunities that support your individual development goals.
• Choose your perk: Enjoy either a subsidized Urban Sports Club membership or a City Plus Card with a €50 monthly allowance.
• Empowerment and ownership: Take responsibility and shape your role as we grow together.
• Modern work setup: Select your preferred system and hardware - Windows, Linux, or Mac.
• Collaborative culture: Be part of a dynamic, start-up-like environment that values flexibility, trust, and innovation.

Join us and help shape the future of pharmaceutical data! At ACCURIDS, we're building the data backbone behind life-science innovation - a system that identifies, links, and standardizes critical enterprise data in compliance with global standards such as ISO IDMP. We help global life-science companies launch products faster, more safely, and with better patient outcomes. At ACCURIDS, you'll join a collaborative, growth-driven environment where your work makes a real impact from day one., In life sciences, disconnected data slows down innovation, increases compliance risk, and wastes valuable resources. ACCURIDS exists to fix that. We provide the trusted backbone for regulated data, enabling smarter decisions, efficient actions, and faster time to market. We believe that collaborative implementation of data standards and AI is the key to solve global challenges in patient safety, supply chain and R&D.