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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Market Logic Software - **Location:** Berlin, Germany (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Linux, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, Prometheus, Runbook, Google Cloud, System Availability, Grafana, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Sentry, Terraform, Software Version Control, Static Application Security Testing, Vulnerability Analysis - **Published:** August 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5838461277 ## About the Role * Kubernetes and GKE (GitOps, managed and unmanaged): 2+ years * Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Cloud Run, GCS, IAM): 2+ years * Terraform IaC (module authoring, plan/apply): 2+ years * GitLab CI/CD pipeline development: 2+ years * ArgoCD or comparable GitOps tool: 1+ years * Observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki): 2+ years * Security scanning and CVE remediation: 1+ years * Linux system operations: 3+ years * Python or Go for infrastructure automation: 2+ years * AI coding assistants in a professional workflow: demonstrated * English (verbal and written): fluent ## Description The Senior DevOps Engineer is a driving force in the SRE team; delivering complex platform work end-to-end across infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, observability, and security. The role requires deep hands-on expertise across the full MLS stack (GKE GitOps, Cloud Run via Terraform, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and GCP) and a proactive mindset that goes beyond ticket execution. The Senior Engineer integrates AI-driven development practices into daily work, mentors junior engineers, and acts as the technical reference for development teams on infrastructure topics. As a primary contributor in the Infrastructure Delivery and Architecture (IDA) workstream, the role concentrates capacity on architectural transitions, AI capability enablement, CI/CD improvements, and proactive security engineering. Responsibilities: * Lead development and maintenance of the Terraform mls-infrastructure repo: modules, plan/apply CI components, Cloud Run deploy guard * Design and maintain GKE cluster infrastructure via Flux and ArgoCD * Implement per-job Workload Identity Federation for secure, credential-free CI/GCP access * Build reusable Terraform modules for GCP resources (Cloud Run, GCS, Pub/Sub, MongoDB Atlas) * Contribute to and extend the pipelines-mip shared GitLab CI template library (~661 service pipelines) * Drive the full build, scan, and deploy cycle: image builds, GitOps hand-off, Cloud Run version management * Manage cross-project pipeline triggers, deploy guards, Protected Environments, and code owners * Design and maintain Grafana dashboards, Prometheus alerting, Loki log aggregation, and Tempo tracing * Operate Sentry for application error tracking and DefectDojo for security finding management * Contribute to defining and tracking SLOs/SLIs; support improvement in platform reliability and incident recovery time * Support P0/P1 incident response; contribute to actionable RCAs * Run the security pipeline: Trivy container scanning, SAST, secret detection, SBOMs * Maintain and improve GCP IAM, GKE private networking, Cloud Armor, and Google Secret Manager hygiene * Track and remediate CVEs; drive container curation and base-image hygiene * Use AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor) daily for infrastructure work * Integrate AI tooling into CI/CD workflows: automated documentation, AI-assisted code review, incident triage * Share AI-driven productivity patterns with the team and grow collective capability * Be the go-to contact for development teams on CI/CD, GCP, Kubernetes, and security topics * Review infrastructure and CI/CD Merge Requests thoroughly and promptly * Mentor Junior DevOps Engineers and onboard new team members to the MLS infra stack * Keep documentation, runbooks, and AGENTS.md files current and actionable * Serve as a primary contributor in the Infrastructure Delivery and Architecture workstream, concentrating on forward-looking, change-driven infrastructure work * Drive focus areas including infrastructure architectural transitions, AI and new capability enablement, developer experience and CI/CD improvements, and proactive security engineering * Produce change summaries and runbook documentation for significant deliverables, handing off operational ownership to the reliability and operations stream * Participate in the weekly workstream sync and the Monthly Focus Meeting; coordinate cross-stream dependencies with the reliability and operations stream ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [From Doubt to Confidence: How Sentry Uses Verdaccio to Bulletproof SDK Releases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/739-from-doubt-to-confidence-how-sentry-uses-verdaccio-to-bulletproof-sdk-releases) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [#90DaysOfDevOps - The DevOps Learning Journey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/548-90daysofdevops-the-devops-learning-journey) - [My journey into DevOps world - How it all started!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/545-my-journey-into-devops-world-how-it-all-started) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Backend Developer Salary in Germany [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/196-backend-developer-salary-in-germany-2023)