• Design, operate, and enhance automated infrastructure platforms • Operate and scale container orchestration environments • Drive automation to improve reliability, consistency, and operational efficiency • Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment and runtime environments • Manage Synology storage systems for data storage, backup, and replication • Apply security best practices across infrastructure and platforms • Troubleshoot complex issues across containers, virtualization, and storage

• Lead and mentor more junior DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance, support and assessment on skill development • Define and communicate the DevOps strategy, goals, and objectives in alignment with the organization's mission • Develop a roadmap for DevOps initiatives, setting priorities and milestones • Continuously assess and improve DevOps processes, workflows, and toolchains to optimize efficiency, quality, and speed of delivery • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including development, operations, security and quality assurance, to ensure seamless software delivery • Communicate project status, issues, and risks to stakeholders and senior management • Drive the adoption of automation tools and practices to streamline deployment, testing, and monitoring processes • Implement advanced monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively detect and address issues in production and development environments • Analyze performance metrics to identify areas for improvement • Collaborate with security teams to integrate security practices into the DevOps workflow, ensuring compliance with security standards and policies • Implement access control and vulnerability management measures • Occasionally work with the sales team to provide technical expertise and support during the sales process • Assist in responding to requests for proposals (RFPs) or requests for information (RFIs) by providing detailed technical information and solution recommendations • Lead / validate effort and timeline estimations • Occasionally assist in addressing critical incidents or perform planned maintenance outside of regular business hours.

• Design, operation, and continuous enhancement of infrastructures based on VMs as well as Kubernetes/OpenShift • Work with private and public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) • Implementation of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps processes • Monitoring of environments including automated alerting • Technical consulting and collaboration with our clients

• Driving Germany’s digital transformation with a focus on secure, scalable and future-proof cloud platforms. • Actively working in project teams for clients across various industries. • Analyzing customer requirements and deriving viable technical solution approaches. • Designing, building and further developing modern cloud and platform architectures with a focus on Kubernetes in a private-cloud context, as well as with selected public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, STACKIT, IONOS). • Architecting and designing scalable, secure and maintainable system landscapes. • Building and operating container platforms with Docker and Kubernetes. • Automating CI/CD pipelines for builds, testing and release cycles, e.g., with GitLab, ArgoCD or Azure DevOps. • Designing and implementing infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible). • Evaluating existing architectures and presenting recommendations for action. • Coaching team members on cloud and platform topics. • Contributing to internal ARES projects.