Lead DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer
Berlin | Hybrid (2 days per month onsite) | €100-120k

Are you passionate about scaling infrastructure, optimizing deployment pipelines, and empowering development teams? Join a forward-thinking Berlin-based tech startup as a Lead DevOps Engineer, where you'll play a vital role in shaping the foundation of cutting-edge applications.

What's On Offer

• Competitive salary in the range of €100,000 to €120,000.
• A hybrid work setup, requiring you onsite 2 days per month
• An inclusive and dynamic workplace with a culture that values innovation and teamwork.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth in a fast-evolving tech landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and scale development and production platforms in cloud environments like AWS and GCP.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and implement innovative cloud solutions.
• Support development teams in mastering configuration, deployment, autoscaling, and monitoring processes.
• Ensure system resilience during peak times, safeguard against security risks, and design robust disaster recovery strategies.

Your Expertise

• Skilled in managing Elasticsearch clusters (5+ data nodes) and configuring data retention, lifecycle management, index/datastream mappings, ML jobs, and Kibana alerts.
• Experience with Kafka, Logstash, Beats, Kibana, Elastic Agent, and queuing systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka, Kinesis) using PHP, Python, or Java.
• 4+ years in Linux/Unix environments across administration, development, and DevOps.
• Proficient in AWS, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), and container orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes, Swarm, etc.).
• Expertise in Docker, Terraform, and CloudFormation, with a foundation in traditional tools like Salt or Chef.

If you're interested or know someone that might be, please feel free to reach out over LinkedIn or email.David