Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer

🚀 Timspark is looking for an experienced Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer to join our team.

• Language: German B2 (mandatory)
  • Core Focus: Lead and operate enterprise cloud platforms, build and manage DevOps / Platform Engineering / SRE teams, drive DevOps transformation and platform strategy, and take operational responsibility for critical cloud services.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Education: Bachelor (FH) or higher in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Engineering, Business Administration (IT focus), or comparable.
• Alternative Experience: a minimum of 10 years of professional/project experience in cloud infrastructure, system administration, or software deployment is required.
• Specific Experience: Minimum of 7 years of professional/project experience in implementing and automating cloud infrastructures and DevOps processes, including leadership of DevOps teams, platform engineering, SRE, and operational responsibility for critical cloud platforms.

Mandatory Responsibilities / Proven Experience

• Building and leading DevOps / Platform Engineering / SRE teams.
• Developing and implementing DevOps strategies and roadmaps; driving DevOps culture and change.
• Establishing SRE practices (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets); incident management and on-call coordination.
• Designing and owning enterprise platform architectures (internal dev platforms, PaaS).
• Stakeholder management and technical advisory to management.
• FinOps responsibility and cloud cost management.
• Compliance automation (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) and secure-by-design practices.
• Chaos engineering / resilience testing; post-incident review and continuous improvement.

Required Certifications

• Cloud/DevOps (At least one professional-level):
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional OR AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer OR Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
  • OR a documented comparable certification.
• Operations/Process (At least one):
  • Google SRE or equivalent SRE certification
  • ITIL® 4 Managing Professional OR ITIL® 4 Strategic Leader
  • COBIT Foundation
  • OR a documented comparable certification.

Technologies, Tools & Methods (Required in reference projects)

• Category 1 (Essential):

  • Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, STACKIT, IONOS (enterprise scale).
  • IaC & automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Bicep, Pulumi.
  • Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (including managed services).
  • Scripting & automation: Python, Bash, PowerShell.

• Category 2 (Highly Desirable):

  • SRE & reliability metrics: SLOs, error budgets, SLIs.
  • Observability: OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana, tracing.
  • FinOps / cost tools: Kubecost, Infracost, CloudHealth.
  • Platform engineering / IDPs: Backstage, Humanitec, Port.
  • Chaos engineering: Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, Litmus.
  • Service catalogs & platform governance: Backstage, ServiceNow, etc.

❗️Location - EU

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