Optimyze Consulting

Software Engineer (All Genders)

Posted: Oct 29, 2025

Job Description

About our client:Our client is Germany's leading digital company for car parts and automotive equipment. Headquartered in Berlin, they operate successful online shops across multiple European countries. Known as a top brand in the online aftermarket, they combine expert advice, a wide product range, and fast, reliable deliveries to ensure individual mobility for their customers.Your role:As a Senior DevOps Engineer in the Cloud Infrastructure team, you will manage and improve the AWS-based cloud platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and security. You will enable development teams to ship fast and safely. Responsibilities include:Maintaining security, scalability, and reliability of the AWS cloud platformDeveloping and evolving AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Terragrunt)Administering Kubernetes/EKS environments, including hardening, RBAC, network policies, and secrets managementManaging and improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), including security scanning (Codacy, Checkov, Dependabot)Implementing web and API security measures (WAF/CDN hardening, bot mitigation, secure coding standards)Observability and incident response with New Relic and CloudWatch, maintaining alerts and monitoringManaging identity and access (IAM strategies, SSO/MFA, key and secrets management)Your profile:4 years of experience in DevOps/SRE, with a focus on cloud security (AWS), IaC (Terraform), and CI/CD (GitHub Actions)Hands-on experience with Web Application Firewalls (AWS WAF), CDN hardening (CloudFront), and bot mitigationSkilled in automation and scripting (Bash, Python, Go)Strong experience in observability, incident handling, root cause analysis, and postmortemsTechnical depth in AWS cloud administration, Kubernetes/container management, network segmentation, encryption, and backupsExcellent collaboration and coaching skills, able to translate security requirements into pragmatic engineering practicesEnglish required; German is a plusBonus skills: AWS Security Specialty, CKA/CKS certifications; experience with Google Cloud or Azure; experience in e-commerce/logistics or highly available platformsWhat’s on offer:Permanent employment contract and 30 days of vacationHome office 3 days per weekInternal and external training opportunitiesUp to 50% employee discount in company branches and workshopsVarious health and sport offers (e.g., Bike-Leasing, VDU glasses)Additional benefits such as language courses via Babbel, company pension plan, corporate benefitsBy applying to this position, you consent to the processing of your personal data in accordance with our privacy policy.

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