Senior Cloud Operations Engineer - German speaking

Jefferson Frank; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Location: 3 days per week onsite in either the London or Newcastle office.

NOTE: Must be German speaking

A multinational Software company are recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer - the successful candidate will work closely with both development and operations teams, playing a key role in deploying, monitoring, and continuously improving infrastructure through automation and modern cloud technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Take full ownership of assigned services, ensuring ongoing availability, performance, and security.
2. Design and implement scalable and secure cloud solutions, with a strong focus on automation.
3. Promote and embed DevOps best practices, including CI/CD processes and principles.
4. Lead the resolution of service incidents, including root cause analysis and stakeholder communication.
5. Work collaboratively across teams to ensure systems meet security, performance, and operational standards.
6. Create and manage infrastructure as code and automated deployment pipelines.
7. Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota to support business-critical services.
8. Continuously identify and deliver improvements to operational processes and tooling.

Essential Skills & Experience:

1. Significant experience in a DevOps, SRE, Systems Administration or similar role (ideally 5+ years).
2. Proven hands-on experience with AWS (Kubernetes experience preferred).
3. Strong scripting skills (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash).
4. Operating Systems: Windows, Linux &/or MacOS.
5. Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and monitoring tools.

Desirable:

1. Associate or Professional-level cloud certifications.
2. Experience with serverless technologies and containerised workloads.
3. Exposure to software development, QA, or broader IT Operations functions.