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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** SafeNow
- **Location:** München, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3, Linux, DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, PostgreSQL, Aws Command Line Interface (CLI), Prometheus, Grafana, Amazon Relational Database Service, AWS Aurora, Kubernetes, Iptables, Apache Kafka, Functional Programming, Terraform
- **Published:** September 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.de/jobad/de2d395842ff7b14072b012c4ec48d3742

## About the Role

* DevOps Engineer full-time with a Linux background - you know your tools from curl to jq, from awk to sed, from iptables to netstat and you know how to exit vi
 * Strong experience with Kubernetes (own cluster running on AWS), Terraform (we're using in to keep stuff up to date and to automatically setup new infrastructures for e.g. pentests), Prometheus and Grafana
 * Strong experience with AWS (IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront etc.) and fluent with the AWS CLI
 * Bonus: You already have experience with optimizing PostgreSQL (we're using AWS Aurora)
 * Willingness to learn more about running backends like Hasura, Kafka or EMQX. Great if you already have experience
 * Based in or around Munich (remote possible)
 * Fluent in English, German is a bonus

## Description

We're a small team with a big heart, based in Munich, consisting of 50 people from 9 different countries. We're looking for a passionate new team member who loves taking on new challenges in a fast-paced startup environment. We're a diverse group of honest and open-minded people who share a common vision: to make the world safer for us and the people and places we love.
Tasks

 * Operate and evolve our AWS-based infrastructure to be secure, scalable, and highly available
 * Manage our Kubernetes clusters and ensure smooth operation of all services
 * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
 * Monitor our systems using Grafana and Prometheus and respond to incidents quickly and effectively
 * Advocate for DevOps best practices across the engineering team and help shape our operational culture
 * Collaborate closely with developers and QA to continuously improve the platform


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