Engineering Team Lead (f/m/d) – DevOps & Platform

Overview

Zertificon Solutions – Software Manufacturer since 2004. We are IT security specialists: our products encrypt business communications. More than 25% of the 100 highest-revenue companies in Germany, as well as hundreds of medium-sized enterprises across all industries, already use our Z1 encryption solutions. We have big plans and continue to grow steadily. Nearly 120 employees are already working with us in Neukölln. Join our professional, highly qualified team: take on challenges, share your knowledge, learn new things, and discover your potential!

The Engineering Team Lead – DevOps & Platform plays a pivotal role in managing Zertificon Operational Services (ZOS) platforms and environments where Zertificon products are developed, tested and run. The role ensures infrastructure health and security to guarantee smooth and uninterrupted development on our various stages. This role contributes to risk mitigation ensuring operational resilience and strengthening the company through:

Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Automation

• Lead design, building and maintenance of automated IT infrastructure (on-premise & cloud)
• Identify and solve internal customer needs with infrastructure, tooling and self-service
• Develop and extend CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Ansible and Terraform

Monitoring & Maintenance

• Manage monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana) and plan strategic alerts
• Maintain environments: hardware testing, installation, patches, OS, certificates, firmware

Containerization & Cloud

• Manage, troubleshoot and automate container clusters (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, hypervisors)
• Work with cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead a team of 4-6 in SaaS development, troubleshooting and improvements
• Review scripts, playbooks, manifests and pull requests for code quality
• Communicate updates, progress and challenges to stakeholders, ensuring timely delivery

Your profile

• Experience with container technologies (images, registries, Docker Swarm)
• Strong understanding of Ansible for configuration management.
• Proven experience with Kubernetes cluster configuration and management
• Solid understanding of Docker, CI/CD pipelines and Git.
• Strong experience using Terraform
• Datacenter expertise with firewalls, switches, routers, cabling and servers
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and M365 products
• Excellent English language skills and effective communication.
• Leadership and mentoring abilities, ability to manage multiple priorities
• Knowledge of databases (backup, restore, troubleshooting, migration) and InfoSec (TCP/IP, certificates)

Join us to shape, secure and scale Zertificon’s platforms while leading a team into the future of DevOps and cloud.

We offer

• Flexible working hours and home office possible
• Mobility: free Germany ticket, job bike leasing or car parking
• Allowances for food (e.g. Lieferando) and internet in the home office
• Benefits in the office: Roof terraces & green courtyard, organic fruit and drinks, parcel acceptance
• Get-together: pizza Friday in the office, regular team events, big summer party