Senior DevOps Engineer (m/w/d) (IT-Fachwirt/in)

Kiteworks’ mission is to empower organizations to effectively manage risk when sending, sharing, receiving, and storing sensitive content. Our platform provides comprehensive content governance, compliance, and protection, helping customers unify, track, control, and secure sensitive content—improving risk management and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Are you a Senior DevOps Engineer ready to take on high-impact architectural challenges? Buckle up and join us in these strategic initiatives:

- Engineering: Building a Kubernetes-based foundation for Kiteworks’ products, ensuring automation, security, and scalability.
- CI/CD Standardization: Designing templates and guides for container image builds, ensuring compliance and security.
- Cloud Integration: Supporting hosted customers on AWS and Azure, maintaining build tools and GitLab runners on EKS.

What you‘ll do

- Architect and optimize infrastructure for Kiteworks’ products, creating a highly available, secure, and automated appliance using Kubernetes.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and automation for deployments, monitoring, and operational tasks.
- Standardize and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI for rapid and compliant software delivery.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, application engineering, QA) to ensure smooth build and release processes.
- Manage cloud resources (AWS, Azure) including VMs, storage, networking, and load balancers.
- Implement Kubernetes operator patterns for automation of day-two operations (backup, disaster recovery, maintenance).
- Ensure compliance with FedRAMP, FIPS, and other security standards in build and deployment processes.
- Proactively monitor and improve system reliability, security, and performance through logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
- Prepare and maintain technical documentation for infrastructure and processes.

What you‘ll bring

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Software Engineering, or related fields.
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Expertise in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure; GCP experience is acceptable).
- Proficiency in Golang (primary language for automation) and Python.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Artifactory).
- Familiarity with microservices architectures and Kubernetes-native development.

Nice-to-Have

- Experience with networking protocols (VPN, HTTPS).
- Knowledge of security tools (vulnerability scanners, static analysis).
- Strong problem-solving and optimization mindset.