Whether in a hospital, airport or high-security company: From planning and installation to maintenance, we ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness with state-of-the-art systems for access control and workforce management as well as integrated security solutions.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Team Lead to spearhead our DevOps initiatives, driving efficiency and innovation across our software delivery pipelines. This leadership role involves significant migration efforts, fostering best practices, and mentoring cross-functional teams to cultivate a robust DevOps culture.

Sounds interesting you? Then join our team and apply today on a 100% Remote-Basis as **DevOps Team Lead (m/f/d)!**

### **Your Responsibilities**

- Lead and execute critical migrations from existing tools and platforms to modern, integrated solutions, including:
- **GitLab Ultimate** (from current version control)
- **GitLab CI/CD** (from Jenkins)
- **GitLab Package Registry** (from Nexus)
- **GitLab Container Registry** (from Docker Private Registry)
- **GitLab Static Application Security Testing (SAST)** (from SonarQube)
- Collaborate closely with the IT team to ensure seamless integration and alignment of DevOps strategies with overall infrastructure goals, primarily leveraging **Azure Cloud** and **OVHcloud**.
- Act as a technical mentor and guide for stream-aligned development teams, promoting the adoption and implementation of DevOps best practices, CI/CD principles, and automation throughout the software development lifecycle. **Crucially, you'll be adept at socializing these best practices, making them accessible and understandable to various teams, fostering enthusiasm and buy-in.**
- Actively participate in and lead the DevOps team, contributing to strategic planning, tool selection, and continuous improvement initiatives.

### **Key Qualifications**

- **CI/CD & Automation Expertise**: Advanced skills in designing and optimizing GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and automating deployments and infrastructure tasks using Python, Bash, or Go.
- **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)**: Extensive experience with tools such as Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure across Azure and OVHcloud environments.
- **Containerization & Orchestration**: Proficient in Docker and Kubernetes, including Helm for Kubernetes app management, with a strong grasp of scaling, rollouts, and cluster optimization.
- **Monitoring & Observability**: Skilled in implementing monitoring and logging solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to ensure system health and performance.
- **Cloud & DevOps Tools Mastery**: Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure and OVHcloud, along with expert-level Git usage for version control and infrastructure management.
- **Leadership & Communication**: Strong problem-solving and leadership skills, with a proven ability to mentor teams, drive adoption of best practices, and foster cross-functional collaboration.
- **Apache Kafka:** Expertise in deploying, configuring, monitoring, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and performant Kafka clusters in production environments.
- **Linux Fundamentals:** A strong understanding of the Linux operating system is essential.

### **Your Benefits**

**What makes working with us great?**

We take care of you while you take care of your business! We listen better and take a closer look. Our aim is to build long-term relationships based on mutual respect and trust.

That's why we offer you:

- **Impact:** play a crucial role in the development of a company that is among the top 5 in its industry.
- **Innovation:** Work on challenging and innovative projects to elevate our processes and culture to the most modern standards.
- **Excellence:** An environment that encourages continuous improvement and personal development.
- **Growth:** Responsible and diverse tasks in a growing medium-sized company.
- **Collaboration:** Become part of our agile, cross-functional and international team.
- **A modern working environment:** Flexible working hours and mobile working
- **Security:** Long-term prospects thanks to a permanent employment contract and 30 days' vacation
- **Benefits:** A company pension scheme and capital-forming benefits, as well as offers on occupational and company medical topics

### Have we piqued your interest?

Then we look forward to receiving your application!

If you have any questions in advance, please call Anna Hallmeier on 07573 952 228.