Senior DevOps Engineer (F/M/D)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Kiel

Your mission

You may be our next DevOps Engineer (F/M/D) if you care deeply about the craft of Infrastructure as Code and want to help us scale our hybride cloud.
We are not looking for someone to simply “fix servers.” We are looking for a builder - someone who values deterministic rollouts (FluxCD), strong observability (SigNoz / Prometheus), and who is excited about shaping the future of AI-assisted platform engineering with us.
In this role, you will act as a trusted expert, bridging the gap between code and production and helping our teams ship software safely and reliably.
We are also leaning into AI coding assistants - not just for boilerplate, but to build smarter guardrails across our CI/CD workflows and platform automation.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), ensuring repeatability, reliability, and reduced operational toil.
Automate provisioning, lifecycle management, and upgrades of Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments (cloud, on-prem, hybrid).
Own end-to-end observability: implement and maintain metrics (Prometheus), log aggregation (Signoz), dashboards (Grafana), distributed tracing, and alerting to enable fast incident detection and root-cause analysis
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application artifacts; introduce and operate GitOps workflows (FluxCD) for deterministic, controlled rollouts
Integrate DevSecOps practices including automated vulnerability scanning, secrets rotation, and policy enforcement to improve the security posture of production systems
Reliability-focused initiatives: HA configurations, chaos/failure testing, capacity reviews, and service hardening
Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on architecture reviews, troubleshooting of distributed workloads, and performance optimization of critical components
Be the trusted expert and partner for the engineering teams to bring ideas to production - secure, reliable, scalable, maintainable and cost efficient.

Our Stack:
Orchestration: Kubernetes (Cloud + On-prem)
IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible
CD/GitOps: FluxCD, GitLab CI
Observability: SigNoz, Prometheus, Grafana
Security: HashiCorp Vault, DevSecOps automation

Your profile

Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken) required for documentation, async communication, and cross-team collaboration; German is a plus but not required
4+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering role or role in an adjacent field
Proven hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production (CKA or equivalent practical experience preferred)
Strong expertise in at least two IaC tools: Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, or Crossplane
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)
Solid understanding of GitOps principles (FluxCD, ArgoCD)
Experience with observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Signoz
Familiarity with DevSecOps tooling: vulnerability scanning, secrets management (e.g., Vault), policy enforcement.

Nice-to-have:

Experience with on-prem/hybrid Kubernetes environments (bare-metal)
Scripting proficiency in Bash and/or Python for automation and tooling
Knowledge of HA design patterns and failure testing (chaos engineering)
Background in distributed systems troubleshooting and performance tuning
Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) in an infrastructure/IaC context - including prompt engineering for config generation and critical review of AI output
Experience building AI guardrails in CI/CD e.g., linting/validation stages that catch AI-generated misconfigurations before they reach production

Why us?

At north.io are committed to creating a culture of collaboration, creativity, and excellence. Therefore, we need driven people like you to foster this culture for the upcoming development.
So if you're looking for a place to grow your skills, unleash your creativity, and make a real impact, north.io is the perfect place for you. Let me give you a quick overview of our culture and it’s benefits:

Innovation - You’re not just building infrastructure, you’re creating the foundation that enables developers to turn ideas into production faster and safer than ever. Your work will directly accelerate how the company ships features and delivers value.
Technical Mastery - You’ll operate across a diverse landscape (cloud, on‑prem, hybrid) with a modern, forward‑leaning toolset (Terraform, FluxCD, Signoz). This is your playground to refine your craft, evaluate new technologies, and set lasting engineering standards.
Hybrid Working Model - So you can choose to do home office or to work from our office in Kiel. Either way, you will be provided with high-quality work equipment to meet your needs.
Extended Holidays - 30 days of holidays per year. We want our employees to have enough time to recharge.

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About us

north.io

We are the Ocean Big Data Specialists!

Since 2011, we’ve been developing cloud-native SaaS solutions that make complex geospatial and marine data accessible, shareable, and understandable.
Our international, English-speaking team of experts in computer science, geography, geophysics, and big data engineering works at the intersection of science and technology to create solutions that turn complex geodata into clarity.
Together, we help our customers from offshore wind and hydrography to defence, security, and public authorities to make informed, data-driven decisions.

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Diversity and Inclusion are part of north.io GmbH values at the highest level. North.io commitment to diversity means providing a work environment for all that is welcoming, respectful, and engaging with opportunities for personal and professional development. We are an LGTBQ friendly company that offers equal opportunity to everyone. This in turn increases productivity, quality, creativity, and goal achievement. Therefore, we are committed to hiring people from diverse and unique personal and professional backgrounds. If you identify with these values and are looking to make a huge impact with your work, we would love to hear from you.

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