DevOps Engineer – Event Streaming Platform
Statista
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hamburg • Germany
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About the role
- Design and operate a company-wide event bus built on Kafka, evolving our existing real-time event monitoring system into a scalable, self-service platform
- Define and maintain all infrastructure as code using AWS CDK across ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with zero-downtime deployments and robust rollback capabilities
- Create self-service tooling and documentation so engineering teams can independently onboard to the platform
- Instrument the platform with Datadog, define SLOs, and build runbooks that make operations manageable at scale
- Embed security best practices from day one: IAM least-privilege, secrets management, and network segmentation
Requirements
- 3+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE
- Hands-on Kafka experience is a must — consumer groups, topic design, partitioning strategies, and operational troubleshooting
- Strong AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, security, and monitoring
- Proficient with Infrastructure as Code — AWS CDK preferred, Terraform or CloudFormation also considered
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Comfortable with Docker, Python scripting, and Linux administration
- Kubernetes/EKS, Datadog, and FinOps experience are a plus
Benefits
- Work from abroad up to 30 calendar days a year
- Hybrid work and flex-time
- International team and social events
- Subsidized urban mobility and access to fitness and wellness options
- Free access to Langdock and all its great features
- Career and training opportunities
- Attractive locations and modern offices
- Mental health support with OpenUp
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Hard Skills & Tools
KafkaAWS CDKTerraformCloudFormationCI/CD pipelinesDockerPythonLinux administrationKubernetesDatadog
Soft Skills
documentationself-service toolingsecurity best practicesoperational troubleshootingindependent onboarding