Senior DevOps Engineer (Berlin, hybrid)

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on Kittl's Platform team, you will help build and evolve the reliable, secure, and cost-efficient foundation that enables our product teams to ship quickly in an AI-driven environment. You will work across our cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, observability, and platform security to improve release confidence and operational excellence.

What you'll do

• Improve CI reliability & developer productivity: Reduce flaky pipelines and shorten feedback loops across CI/CD systems to improve developer experience and delivery speed
• Strengthen observability & incident readiness: Build actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for key user journeys to help teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster
• Operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform: Manage and improve our AWS EKS environment, ensuring safe deployments, runtime reliability, and scalable infrastructure
• Drive infrastructure automation: Expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Pulumi and TypeScript; build reusable platform primitives and self-service patterns for engineering teams
• Improve security & governance: Strengthen access management, secrets handling, and secure defaults across infrastructure and engineering workflows
• Optimize infrastructure costs: Identify major cost drivers such as data transfer, compute usage, and logging; improve cost visibility and ownership across teams

What you'll need

• Kubernetes & cloud expertise: At least 5 years production experience running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and troubleshooting distributed systems
• CI/CD expertise: Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar) and a track record of improving pipeline reliability
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools and building reusable infrastructure patterns
• Observability knowledge: Practical experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring tools such as Grafana
• Security mindset: Understanding of IAM, access control, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and secure operational practices
• Collaborative approach: Comfortable working cross-functionally and driving technical initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes

What they offer

• Flexible working hours (core hours 11am–5pm CET)
• Up to 50 days fully remote per year from anywhere in the world
• L&D budget for professional growth
• Up to 30 vacation days per year
• BVG public transport ticket fully covered
• Urban Sports Club membership discount