DevOps Engineer - Application Support & Infrastructure - Mostly Remote - Freelance

DevOps Engineer - Application Support & Infrastructure

Initial 9-12 month contract (freelance/consultant) + potential extensions

Remote (monthly onsite visits to Hamburg)

30-40 hours/week

ASAP start

Fluent English, German a plus

About the Role :

We are looking for a highly motivated engineer with an independent and reliable work style to support our applications used for New Product Introductions and Operations of for secure, high quality and cutting-edge products delivered to leading companies around the world. You will strengthen our Application Team to speed up the implementation of structural changes.

Key Responsibilities :

Maintain and improve monitoring, alerting, clean up and logging of application components

Request and manage certificates

Support Identity Access Management

Maintain CI/CD pipelines incl. reporting / logging updates, debugging, automation, deployments

Improve integration testing for applications=

Execute database setups and optimizations

Drive Kubernetes, Docker and Open Shift related activities (migrations, signatures, documentation, ...)

Work on security & compliance tasks like threat models, penetration and security header scans, SBOM

Improve Infrastructure & Networking via API setup, VM decommissioning, firewalls, repository cleanup

Help to implement AI to improve efficiency

Skills & Qualifications :

3+ years of experience in DevOps and Application Support

Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm charts, ArgoCD, GitOps, Jenkins, VCS concepts

Knowledge in TLS/SSL certificate management

Experience in reading and writing of scripts e.g. shell scripting and SW deployment strategies.

Familiarity with data base handling e.g. MS-SQL, MySQL, SQLite is an advantage

Experience with collaborations tools like Confluence, Bitbucket, Jira and MS Office is important.

Quality Mindset incl. quality methods and Security Awareness (information security, ...) is a plus.

Good in analytical and teamwork abilities, proactive, problem solving, independent and reliable work style, curiosity to learn and adapt quickly.