Lead DevOps Engineer (all genders) - SaaS Platform & Cloud

inform GmbH
Köln, Germany
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
€ 93K

Job location

Köln, Germany

Tech stack

Java
API
Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Automation of Tests
Software as a Service
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Security
Cloud Engineering
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Amazon DynamoDB
Github
Python
Systems Development Life Cycle
Prometheus
Service Design
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Systems Architecture
TypeScript
System Availability
Flask
Delivery Pipeline
Grafana
Backend
Vue.js
Containerization
WebPack
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Front End Software Development
Asynchronous Programming
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Terraform
Serverless Computing

Job description

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our product. Working in a cross-functional product team, you'll drive architectural decisions, improve platform reliability, and help build scalable cloud-native services that deliver real value to our customers.

  • Take technical ownership of our Customer Watchlist Screening platform and actively shape its future development.

  • Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native services - contributing hands-on across the full stack where needed.

  • Ensure stable operations, high availability, and strong observability across our platform.

  • Drive continuous improvements in deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation, and platform efficiency at scale.

  • Collaborate closely with Product Management and System Architecture to drive the development of new features and services.

  • Guide and mentor fellow engineers, fostering engineering excellence and knowledge sharing within the team.

  • Work with platform, cloud, and authentication teams to leverage shared services and build on a scalable infrastructure., * Backend Development: Python (Flask), asynchronous programming, APIs and service integration

  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS), Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

  • Container Platform: Kubernetes, Helm, Flux, KEDA

  • Observability & Reliability: Grafana, Prometheus, monitoring and alerting concepts

  • CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, automated testing and deployment pipelines

  • Frontend (nice to have): TypeScript (e.g. Vue.js / Vite)

  • Additional (optional): Exposure to Java-based services

  • Flexible working hours, hybrid work, workation, sabbatical

  • Childcare subsidy and other family-friendly benefits

  • Urban Sports Club membership and other health/sports offers e.g. bike leasing

  • Long-term development prospects with a wide range of further training opportunities

  • Varied, healthy and subsidized lunch in our canteen

  • Large INFORM summer party, company and team events as well as a Christmas party

Requirements

  • Proven DevOps Expertise: 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, building and operating scalable, production-grade SaaS systems.
  • Fullstack Engineering Mindset: Strong experience across the full development lifecycle - from backend services to cloud infrastructure, with the ability to contribute hands-on where needed.
  • Cloud-Native & Platform Thinking: Deep understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, containerization, and operating distributed systems in production.
  • Technical Leadership: Ability to take ownership of architecture decisions, service design, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization in a team context.
  • Hands-on Mentality: Comfortable switching between development, infrastructure, and operations topics.
  • Agile Collaboration: Experience working in cross-functional product teams with a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset.
  • Communication & Ownership: Strong communication skills and the ability to proactively drive technical topics with Product, Architecture, and Platform teams.

About the company

At INFORM's Risk & Fraud Division, we develop and operate a SaaS solution that helps organizations across Europe meet Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements through reliable and efficient Customer Watchlist Screening.

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