DevOps & Platform Engineering – Grid Asset System (PID 524-2026-025)

This is a remote position.

DevOps & Platform Engineering – Grid Asset System (PID 524-2026-025)

• Contract / Freelance
  
• Full-time
  
• Remote with travel readiness required (Germany)
  
• Start: Immediately
  
• Max. 6 months
  

About the role

We are seeking a Mid-level DevOps Engineer. Working within the same cloud-native hybrid cloud engineering platform (Azure and on-premises), you will contribute hands-on to CI/CD automation, Kubernetes operations, GitOps deployments and microservices management across approximately 20 product teams and 150 developers.

What you'll be doing

• Packaging and deploying microservices on Kubernetes using Helm, managing chart structure, templates, values, hooks and upgrades
  
• Implementing GitOps deployments using Argo CD and Helm, including app-of-apps patterns, multi-cluster/environment setups and sync waves
  
• Standardising deployments in Kubernetes across namespaces, RBAC, NetworkPolicies, resource requests/limits, PDB and HPA
  
• Establishing release and rollout strategies including Canary/Blue-Green, rollback, versioning and changelog management
  
• Securing deployments across the supply chain, including image scanning, signing/provenance and policy-as-code using OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno
  
• Troubleshooting deployments including Helm templating/rendering, Kubernetes events/logs and probe debugging
  
• Monitoring platform health using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and OpenTelemetry
  
• Contributing to CI pipeline development and CD automation
  
• Supporting microservices operations with Kafka, CEPH and PostgreSQL
  
• Participating in agile ceremonies and contributing to knowledge transfer within the team
  

Requirements

What you'll need

• Minimum 3 years of DevOps Engineering experience
  
• Strong CI pipeline knowledge
  
• Extensive CD experience with ArgoCD and Helm including Helm chart support
  
• Strong experience with microservices and Kubernetes
  
• Strong experience with Kafka, CEPH and PostgreSQL
  
• Strong experience with monitoring tools including Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and OpenTelemetry
  
• Proficiency in Helm best practices: idempotent deployments, clean value schema, secrets handling and chart testing/linting
  
• In-depth Kubernetes knowledge for production deployments including RBAC, Ingress/Gateway, Service Discovery, Storage, Pod Security/Policies and Quotas/LimitRanges
  
• Fluent English (C1 minimum)
  

Desirable

• Experience with agile methods including Scrum and Kanban
  
• DevSecOps fundamentals
  
• Experience in enterprise environments
  
• Experience with Kustomize and Helm in combination
  
• Experience with Helmfile or similar tools for orchestrating multiple releases
  
• Knowledge of service mesh such as Cilium and its deployment patterns
  
• Experience with multi-tenancy in Kubernetes
  
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform or OpenTofu
  
• Expert experience with GitOps in complex hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios
  

Benefits