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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # DevOps Engineer - **Company:** ECS GmbH - **Location:** Illingen, Germany - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon S3, Backup Devices, Computer Programming, Databases, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, DevOps, File Transfer, Github, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Node.Js, OpenID, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Openapi, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, AWS Fargate, Route53, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, NestJS, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-devops-engineer-aws-platform-backend-support-ostrom-8770726 ## About the Role + Lambda + RDS (MySQL/Postgres) + SQS/SNS + CloudWatch + S3 * Strong experience with Terraform. * Deep understanding of AWS networking and secure infrastructure design. * Experience operating RDS (backups, upgrades, failovers, troubleshooting). * Hands-on CloudWatch experience (metrics, dashboards, Logs Insights, alarms). * Good understanding of event-driven systems (SQS, SNS, Lambda triggers, retries, DLQs). * Strong proficiency with Docker and containerized deployments. * Experience with GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD workflows. * Programming skills in Python or Golang. * Working knowledge of Node.js/NestJS to support backend engineers occasionally. Additional Desired Experience * Experience with Docker image hardening and optimization (multi-stage builds, non-root users). * Familiarity with API gateways or automating OpenAPI specifications. * Experience integrating SSO/SAML/OIDC for cloud and internal tools. * Experience with KMS (nice to have). * Experience improving secrets management. * Experience building reusable CI/CD components (custom GitHub Actions). * Experience setting up a monitoring stack. * Familiarity with secure file transfer mechanisms (SFTP/SSH key setups). * Experience with distributed backend architectures (microservices, event-driven, multi-service systems)., * Have 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer. * You take ownership and think long-term. * You are systematic, structured, and pragmatic. * You communicate clearly and proactively. * You collaborate easily with backend engineers and product teams. * You bring calmness and maturity during incidents and debugging. * You are able to quickly learn new technologies and apply them to solve problems. ## Description We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of our cloud infrastructure and help evolve a modern AWS-based platform. 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