DevOps Engineer II

Headquartered in Munich since 2004, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 2004, we now have 340 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Job summary:

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. Saddleworth Labs is hiring for the DevOps Engineer II role to own our build pipelines, cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Job duties:

• Participate in on-call and incident response
• Set up monitoring and alerting in Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or CloudWatch
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM
• Automate server configuration with Ansible
• Support developers with environment issues, failed builds and deployment questions
• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection
• Script repetitive tasks in Bash, Python or PowerShell
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps

What you need:

• 3+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role
• Experience running containers with Docker and Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP in production
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)

Preferred:

• Background in software development
• Packer for image builds
• Argo CD or Flux for GitOps
• Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd

What you get:

• Company laptop
• Paid time off

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Saddleworth Labs GmbH.