DevOps Engineer – Go & Kubernetes (m/f/d)

About us

We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer (medior level) to join our team in Hamburg, Germany, who is passionate about cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes-based platforms.

In this role, you’ll play a key part in developing and maintaining scalable infrastructure, supporting Kubernetes-based microservices, and ensuring reliable CI/CD processes across environments. Kubernetes is a core focus of the role, complemented by either Go development skills or AWS cloud experience (or both). You will contribute to automation and internal tooling, including Go-based utilities and platform components, and support operational tooling within Kubernetes and AWS in close collaboration with developers, QA, and deployment teams.

Tasks

• Design, operate, support, and continuously improve production Kubernetes environments (on-prem Kubernetes clusters, managed Kubernetes services, OpenShift ...)
• Work with AWS-based infrastructure and tooling, following cloud and security best practices
• Contribute to automation and internal tooling, including Go-based operators and controllers
• Support deployment and operation of cloud-native microservices
• Collaborate closely with developers to improve reliability, scalability, and performance
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Improve monitoring and observability
• Support troubleshooting and incident resolution for internal teams

Requirements

We are open to different skill combinations, strong Kubernetes experience is mandatory.

Must-haves

• Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms in production
• Experience working with containerized, cloud-native applications and modern DevOps practices
• Strong experience in at least one of the following areas:
  • Go development for in-house operators and controllers, or
  • AWS cloud services (e.g. EKS, IAM, EC2, S3)
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, etc. is a plus)
• Collaborative mindset and willingness to learn

• Experience with CI/CD concepts and tools (Bitbucket Pipelines or similar)
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
• Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (e.g. Terraform)
• Security best practices and compliance exposure
• Telecom or networking background

Benefits

• Work-Life-Balance is a priority: Flexible working that suits you - we live and breathe a hybrid remote culture and don't mind where and when you work
• We are committed to building a diverse team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills in a traditionally not very diverse industry
• We offer you the culture of a fast-growing start-up with the maturity of an enterprise company
• We are more interested in your experience and knowledge than formal degrees
• Entrepreneurial culture and flat hierarchies
• Mobility benefit, fitness benefit, language class benefit and wellness benefit (for full-time employees)
• Home office budget (for full-time employees)