DevOps Engineer - Italy

About the position

As our DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in the design, development, maintenance, compliance and automation of the ndd Cloud platform services. You will be responsible for driving the technology strategies, refresh cycles and optimization initiatives of ndd Cloud platform services. In this role, you will strongly collaborate with our Cloud Operations team to ensure an aligned, effective and compliant platform and infrastructure ecosystem.

• Location: Italy, 100% remote 
• Employment type: Full time under EOR
• All applicants must be legally authorized to work in Italy without sponsorship.

Do you want to help us to make lung function testing accessible to everyone everywhere, and to improve the lives of millions of people with lung diseases? Then you have come to the right place! Tasks

• Design, development, maintenance and delivery of the ndd Cloud platform strategy: Kubernetes, Container Images, IaC, DevOps, GitOps processes.
• Design for operation excellence and quality in production environments. Services are hooked into monitoring dashboards to promptly detect issues.
• Making use of AI to enhance effectiveness, efficiency and quality of services
• Maintain Software releases: bug fixing, vulnerability mitigation, platforms refresh cycles.
• Design monitoring interfaces for the platform services toward the ndd Cloud monitoring dashboards (Grafana, Azure Monitor).
• Drive architecture decisions for cost-optimization, technology modernization and process improvements.
• Assist Service & Support (third level) team with production escalations
• Closely collaborate with the Cloud Operation team to support with a compliant infrastructure strategy design: access-controls, networking, auditing, backup & restore plans, monitoring stack, data locality.

Your profile

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering or equivalent. 
• At least 3 years of experience in:• DevOps architecture design and implementation (preferably Azure DevOps)
• GitOps architecture design and implementation (preferably  ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize)
• Kubernetes and containerization technologies, architectures, platform design and security patterns (e.g. Ingress Controllers, Certificate Managers, RBAC, secret management, environment segregations, storage volumes, network services and security)
• Infrastructure as a Code technology (preferably Terraform, Vagrant, Packer, Ansible)
• Application and platform telemetry (preferably OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
• Scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash), Python
• Design of containers images vulnerability assessment and refresh lifecycle
• Kubernetes service mesh (Istio)
• Platform service management; i.e. clear separation of platform services and application management and delivery lifecycles (in medical environment is very important) 
• Cloud/Azure security solution design (virtual network, private endpoints, bastion hosts and image hardening, RBAC, compliance and policy as code etc.)
• Token-based security (e.g. OIDC, OAuth2, RBAC, SSO)
• Static Code Analysis tools (Trivy, Snyk, SonarQube)
• Telemetry frameworks (Open Telemetry, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger)

• Experience with Blue/Green (zero-downtime) architecture and deployments.
• Experience with any AI code and AI agentic framework related to software automation and delivery practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience with agile methodologies (e.g. Kanban).
• A proactive go-getter attitude.
• Proficiency in English, both spoken and written.
• Knowledge of Medical software development according to IEC-62304 is a plus.

Why us?

We offer a comprehensive onboarding, profesional and modern technology, and a collegial and supportive working environment. We promote equal opportunities, diversity and inclusion.   The position falls under the National Collective Labour Agreement CCNL for the Tertiary, Distribution, and Service sector. The salary allocation will be determined based on the technical skills, level of experience, and the applicable classification. RAL €35k-45k.   If this profile describes you and you would like to work at a fast-growing company in a global environment, then we should meet. Apply directly and exclusively via our e-recruiting tool. Your application will be handled confidentially and in accordance with our Data privacy statement. Contact

We kindly ask for direct applications only. Unsolicited dossiers from agencies will not be considered, and we decline all responsibility for any fees related to such submissions.   Our recruitment process: CV Screening → Getting to Know Each Other with HR & the Hiring Manager → Meet the Software Team & Technical Discussion → Final Decision → Offer    For any additional questions you may contact jobs@ndd.ch About us

ndd Medizintechnik AG is a leading company and innovator in pulmonary function testing devices. For 30 years, ndd has created solutions that improve early detection of chronic lung diseases, including COPD  and asthma. Today, ndd offers unique spirometry and pulmonary function testing  devices that are available in more than 100 countries around the globe.