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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Bitpanda GmbH
- **Location:** Wien, Austria (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Routing, NoSQL, Performance Tuning, Datadog, Load Balancing, Istio, System Availability, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Docker, Pagerduty, Confluent
- **Published:** July 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.xing.com/jobs/wien-senior-devops-engineer-149314966

## About the Role

* 5+ years of hands-on experience building and managing AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, KMS, and related services).
 * Strong expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
 * 3+ years of hands-on experience building, managing, and optimizing either cluster-level Kafka deployments (Confluent preferred) or cloud relational/NoSQL database infrastructure in AWS, with a strong understanding of underlying engine mechanics and performance tuning.
 * Advanced understanding of cloud networking, including routing, load balancing, VPC design, hybrid connectivity, and service-mesh-based networking - familiarity with multi-cluster service mesh (Istio) and related capabilities is preferred
 * Proficiency in CI/CD systems, with deep experience in GitLab CI/CD and working knowledge of ArgoCD.
 * Proven experience deploying, maintaining, and scaling critical cloud infrastructure components in production environments.

## Description

* Design, develop, and evolve our AWS-based infrastructure using best-in-class tooling, including Terraform and ArgoCD, leading the operation and optimisation of our container orchestration platforms, with a focus on multi-cluster networking and service-to-service communication.
 * Take ownership of our cross-cluster Istio service mesh-implementing policies, improving traffic management, and enhancing mesh-level networking performance and security.
 * Take ownership of the performance and scaling of either our Confluent Kafka messaging deployments proactively identifying bottlenecks, improving configurations, and collaborating with engineering teams to tune applications.
 * Monitor, optimise, and automate systems to ensure high availability, strong security posture, and superior performance using Datadog, Opsgenie, and AI-powered tooling.
 * Build scalable, robust solutions for complex technical challenges, ensuring infrastructure design aligns with best practices and long-term platform goals.
 * Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, promote engineering excellence, and contribute to team knowledge sharing and process improvements.


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