Senior DevOps Engineer

Kittl

Senior DevOps Engineer on Kittl’s Platform team managing Kubernetes infrastructure and improving CI/CD pipelines. Collaborating across teams to enhance operational excellence in an AI-driven environment.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeBerlin • 🇩🇪 GermanySeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaKubernetesTerraformTypeScriptVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Improve CI reliability & developer productivity: Reduce flaky pipelines and shorten feedback loops across CI/CD systems to improve developer experience and delivery speed
Strengthen observability & incident readiness: Build actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for key user journeys to help teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster
Operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform: Manage and improve our AWS EKS environment, ensuring safe deployments, runtime reliability, and scalable infrastructure
Drive infrastructure automation: Expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Pulumi and TypeScript; build reusable platform primitives and self-service patterns for engineering teams
Improve security & governance: Strengthen access management, secrets handling, and secure defaults across infrastructure and engineering workflows
Optimize infrastructure costs: Identify major cost drivers such as data transfer, compute usage, and logging; improve cost visibility and ownership across teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Kubernetes & cloud expertise: At least 5 years production experience running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and troubleshooting distributed systems
CI/CD expertise: Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar) and a track record of improving pipeline reliability
Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools and building reusable infrastructure patterns
Observability knowledge: Practical experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring tools such as Grafana
Security mindset: Understanding of IAM, access control, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and secure operational practices
Collaborative approach: Comfortable working cross-functionally and driving technical initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes

Benefits

Comp & perks

Maximise your impact: No matter if you’re leading a team or you stand out by your domain expertise - all we care about is supporting you to maximise your own impact
Hackathons: Our quarterly hackathons provide an environment to experiment with new concepts, push boundaries, and potentially deliver the next big thing.
Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers together for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun
Flexible working hours: Our core hours are 11am–5pm CET, leaving the rest of your schedule flexible to fit your style
Remote work: Work up to 50 days (10 weeks) fully remote per year from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain our core hours
Learning & development: Our L&D budget supports your professional growth
Mobility benefit: We fully cover your monthly BVG public transport ticket
Health and fitness: Urban Sports Club membership discount
Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesAWS EKSCI/CDPulumiTypeScriptTerraformmetricsloggingtracingmonitoring

Soft Skills

collaborativecross-functionaltechnical initiative drivingproblem-solvingcommunication