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Constructor Labs

DevOps / Platform Engineer — Scientific Computing

Constructor Labs Bremen, Bremen, Germany

E-Learning Providers · 201-500 employees

3 h ago
devops Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time Germany
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About the role

The role involves owning the build, deployment, and infrastructure for scientific software across cloud and on-premise environments. You will manage CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and ensure security and compliance through automated scanning and robust infrastructure practices.

What they look for

AWS Kubernetes Ansible CI/CD GitOps Infrastructure-as-code Secrets management Access control Monitoring Log aggregation Database migration Static analysis Dependency scanning Licence scanning Backup and recovery

Requirements

Candidates must have strong experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and configuration management tools like Ansible at production scale. You should also possess practical experience with on-premise and offline deployments and be a clear communicator in English.

Full description

Location: Remote within Europe, with regular presence in Bremen

Direct Reports: None

Working Model: Remote / hybrid. Regular time on-site in Bremen.

Mission

Own build, deployment and infrastructure for scientific software that runs in awkward places — customer premises, restricted laboratory networks, air-gapped sites, and our own cloud. The role combines conventional cloud platform engineering with the harder problem of shipping updatable software into environments we do not control.

Responsibilities

Pillar 1 Deployment and Delivery

  • Own build, CI/CD and release for the platform across cloud and on-premise targets.
  • Build and maintain installers and update paths that work in restricted and offline environments.
  • Manage database migration and rollback paths for customer installations.

Success Metrics and KPIs: release frequency, failed deployments, time to patch a customer site.

Pillar 2 Infrastructure

  • Run the Kubernetes and GitOps side of the platform.
  • Own secrets management, access control and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Implement monitoring and log aggregation across internal and customer environments.
  • Integrate with Constructor's platform, identity and deployment tooling.

Success Metrics and KPIs: uptime, mean time to detect, infrastructure reproducible from code.

Pillar 3 Security and Governance

  • Introduce static analysis and dependency and licence scanning into the pipeline.
  • Own backup, recovery and continuity for the platform.
  • Support audit and compliance requirements from funded research and customer contracts.

Accountability: no single undocumented dependency on one person, including yourself.

Requirements

Experience

  • Strong AWS or equivalent, Kubernetes, and configuration management such as Ansible, at production scale.
  • Real experience of on-premise and offline deployment, not only cloud.
  • CI/CD pipeline ownership end to end

Skills & Competencies

  • Autonomous and proactive. You have carried infrastructure alone.
  • Willing to hand knowledge over rather than hold it.
  • Interested in the product and the science, not only the pipeline.
  • Clear communicator in English.

Education & Languages

  • Degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent practical track record.
  • Fluent English.

What This Role Is (and Is Not)

This role IS

  • Full ownership of infrastructure for a technically unusual product.
  • A role where you finally get a team around you.
  • Exposure to a broad modern stack.

This role is NOT

  • A pure cloud or pure on-premise role.
  • A ticket-driven operations role.
  • A role without contact with the product.

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