DevOps Engineer with a focus on Kubernetes (hybrid working model - Düsseldorf, Germany) (m/f/d)
freshcells systems engineering GmbH · Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About the role
You will implement automation, scalability, and reliability best practices for high-traffic web applications using Kubernetes. Additionally, you will support infrastructure maintenance, CI/CD pipeline management, and assist full-stack developers with complex deployments.
What they look for
Requirements
The ideal candidate has expertise in containerization, Kubernetes, and Helm, along with hands-on experience in cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform. Proficiency in Linux, scripting, and observability practices is required, while experience with MLOps or data engineering is considered a plus.
Benefits
Full description
Your mission
Your Responsibilities
- Implementing best practices for automation, scalability, and system reliability on high-traffic web applications hosted with kubernetes
- Supporting in maintaining customer infrastructure across Kubernetes upgrades and software supply chain changes
- Participating in continuous improvement processes, with a focus on supporting full-stack developers managing complex deployments (in development environment)
- Supporting freshcells adopt and implement DevOps and MLOps best practices: In this position, you will have up to 25% of your working time for learning and experimenting, based on the needs and direction of freshcells
Your profile
Your Qualifications
- Expertise with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Expertise with helm, including writing and maintaining custom Helm charts
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform or similar)
- Experience running production workloads on Kubernetes
- Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with GitOps and continuous delivery tools such as flux CD
- Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code tools (ideally Terraform)
- Familiarity with linux, shell scripting and/or Python
- Experience with observability, understanding how to set up and use logging, metrics, tracing, alerting
- Experience with creating machine learning pipelines or willingness to learn it on the job
- Fluency in English
Nice to have
- Experience with on-call duty
- Experience with data engineering, MLOps and training AI workloads, metaflow
- Experience with Argo CD, Argo workflows
- Experience with SQL databases and Redis
Why us?
freshcells systems engineering GmbH is a software service provider based in Düsseldorf with a dynamic team of over 50 creative experts from various disciplines. At freshcells, authenticity, individual talent development, and open communication are at the heart of everything we do. We rely on respect, trust, and responsibility. As an innovation-driven company, we continuously invest in new ideas. We know the best results come from teamwork. Mistakes happen—but we learn from them. We are open and courageous when it comes to exploring new paths. Join us on our exciting journey in one of the most significant and future-shaping fields – software development – as a DevOps Engineer (M/E/N/S/C/H)!
What we offer you:
- Flexible working hours for early birds and night owls
- Dog-friendly work environment
- A secure and long-term position
- Company pension plan with employer contributions
- Regular exchange, feedback sessions, team meetings, and retrospectives
- Monthly company breakfast
- Room for your own ideas and personal development
- Free access to digital learning platforms for all employees
- Subsidy for Urban Sports Club membership
- Subsidy for the Germany Ticket (Deutschlandticket)
- Bike leasing via JobRad
- Support with relocation processes
- Free German language courses for newcomers
Everyone is welcome at freshcells, regardless of gender, age, sexual identity, background, religion, beliefs, or disability. What matters most is that you’re the right fit for our team. About us
freshcells systems engineering GmbH is a software service provider based in Düsseldorf with a dynamic team of over 60 creative experts from various fields.
At our company, authenticity, individual talent development and open communication are our focus. We build on respect, trust and responsibility. As an innovation-driven company, we invest in new ideas. We know that the best results are achieved as a team. We do make mistakes, but we learn from them. We are open and bold in exploring new paths.
Join us on our exciting journey in what is arguably the most significant and forward-looking field — software development.
To find out more about us, feel free to visit our website. https://www.freshcells.de/en/
