**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 130 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:

- Proactive maintenance and monitoring of Zertificon environments ensuring their availability and full functionality
- Maintenance of production and R&D hardware, supporting releases and troubleshooting on pipelines
- Ownership and management of our R&D smart self-service solutions

### Your tasks

**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 hours** and **home office** options
- **Mobility:** free Germany-wide public transport ticket, bike leasing, or parking
- **Subsidies for meals:** (e.g., delivery services) and home office internet
- **Urban Sports Club membership** for flexible fitness and wellness
- **Office perks:** rooftop terraces & green courtyard, organic fruit and drinks, personal packages accepted at the office
- **Get-togethers:** monthly Pizza Friday, regular team events, big summer party
- **Responsible leadership:** structured onboarding, regular feedback, clear goals
- **Innovative without startup risk:** profitable for 20+ years, self-funded innovation with strong global potential
- **International team:** 120+ colleagues from 30+ countries, open and collaborative culture

**If that resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you.**

Want to know more? Please have a look at our Work at Zertificon page: [https://www.zertificon.com/en/it-jobs-berlin/work-at-zertificon](https://www.zertificon.com/en/it-jobs-berlin/work-at-zertificon)

**Questions?**

You can reach our HR team at

[jobs@zertificon.com](https://mailto:jobs@zertificon.com)