Job Description

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will shape the platform that enables our engineering teams to build and run reliable, scalable services. You take ownership of core infrastructure, drive automation, and simplify complex systems to improve stability and developer productivity.
This is a highly technical role focused on building robust cloud infrastructure, improving platform reliability, and enabling fast, safe deployments You work across GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Linux, with the autonomy to identify improvements and the responsibility to ensure systems run smoothly in production.

What you'll do

• Infrastructure Architecture & Operations Design, build, and operate scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and maintainability across environments.
• Platform Engineering & Infrastructure Automation: Design, build, and standardize Kubernetes-based platform components and cloud infrastructure using Terraform and automation.
• CI/CD & Deployment Workflows: Build and improve automated deployment pipelines and workflows to support reliable and efficient releases.
• Troubleshooting & Incident Resolution: Investigate and resolve production issues across infrastructure and platform layers, ensuring fast recovery and root cause understanding.
• Operational Excellence: Continuously improve platform reliability, performance, and operational stability.
• Engineering Collaboration: Work closely with engineering teams on infrastructure requirements and platform improvements.
• Risk & Change Management: Assess infrastructure changes for operational impact and ensure safe, controlled rollouts.
• Continuous Improvement & Ownership: Proactively identify and implement improvements to enhance scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

What Everphone offers you

Your everyday space, elevated with Everphone

• Choose a phone of your liking for privat and professional use
• Adjustable desks
• A laptop of your choice
• Ergonomic chairs
• A dog-friendly office

Flexible workplace, work where you work best

• A hybrid work model
• Our workation policy (work from abroad 1 month per year)

Your well-being:

• Mental health support through Voiio
• (Subsidized Urban Sports Club memberships)
• Annual flu shots and eye tests
• 30 days of paid vacation yearly
• A company pension plan to support you create your retirement plan
• Extras vouchers through Circula, up to 50€ to use for grocery shopping, drugstores, hardware stores, gas stations and much more
• A 348€ yearly subsidy for public transportation in Germany
• And of course, we provide healthy snacks, good coffee, and fresh soft drinks

Community & connection

• Weekly company lunches and breakfasts events
• casual Friday drinks
• Summer- and Winterparty
• Employee Resource Groups

Learning is part of the job

• Everphone Academy
• Our EverLearn platform - lets learn from each other
• Language classes paid by us (German and English)
• Internal learning sessions and workshops

What you’ll need

• DevOps / Platform Experience: Minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or infrastructure-focused roles in production environments.
• Google Cloud Platform: Very strong hands-on experience with GCP and designing, operating, and scaling cloud-native infrastructure in production.
• Terraform & Infrastructure as Code: Deep expertise in Terraform, including modular design, state management, and maintaining large-scale Infrastructure as Code setups.
• Kubernetes: Very strong understanding of Kubernetes and running containerized workloads in production environments.
• Linux Fundamentals: Strong knowledge of Linux systems, including operating system behavior, performance, and troubleshooting.
• System Thinking & Troubleshooting: Ability to analyze complex systems and debug issues across infrastructure and platform layers.
• Cloud & Networking Fundamentals: Solid understanding of cloud architecture, networking concepts, and core security principles.
• Automation Mindset: Experience building automated workflows and reducing manual operational tasks.
• Ownership & Proactivity: Self-driven working style with the ability to identify improvements and take responsibility for platform quality.
• Collaboration & Communication: Clear and structured communication when working with engineering teams and technical stakeholders.