Senior DevOps Engineer (DE)

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For a long-term IT project in the public sector, our customer is looking for an experienced Senior Kubernetes / DevOps Engineer. The main focus is on operating and further developing an on-premises Kubernetes platform, including RKE2 clusters, automation, monitoring, security and support.

• Rate: on request
• Operation and further development of RKE2 Kubernetes clusters
• Maintenance, patching and upgrade management of the Kubernetes environment
• Infrastructure automation and configuration with Ansible
• Operation and further development of the monitoring environment with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and Alloy
• Creation and maintenance of dashboards and alerting rules
• Administration and automation using Bash scripting
• Operation and further development of a Jitsi environment running on Kubernetes
• Troubleshooting and incident resolution
• 2nd and 3rd level support
• Creation and maintenance of technical documentation
• Your profile:
  • Very good knowledge of Kubernetes, ideally RKE2 / Rancher
  • Experience with Helm
  • Good knowledge of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and Alloy
  • Experience with Docker or Podman
  • Very good knowledge of Ansible and Bash scripting
  • Experience with Linux, preferably Red Hat or Oracle Linux
  • Knowledge of NGINX, HAProxy or Traefik
  • Experience with networking and firewall topics
  • Experience with DevOps methodologies and automation
  • Very good German language skills
  • Nice: Experience with Jitsi
  • Nice: Experience with air-gapped Kubernetes environments
  • Nice: Knowledge of Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and Artifactory
  • Nice: Experience with cert-manager, WireGuard or CNPG
  • Willingness to undergo SÜ1 security clearance
• Duration: Full-time. Start: . Long-term project. Predominantly remote, with occasional travel to Nuremberg if required