Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, Software, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring the team on software delivery best practices and automation.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As our DevOps Lead, you will own the infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability of our cloud-native platform, and lead how we build, deploy, and operate software as we scale.
- You will report directly to the CTO.
- This is a technical leadership role with a meaningful hands-on component: roughly 60% of your time on infrastructure engineering, automation, and technical decision-making, and 40% on team leadership, mentoring, planning, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Lead and mentor engineers on infrastructure and operational best practices, supporting a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous learning.
- Own our GCP infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), and our GitOps delivery model (Flux CD, Helm, Kubernetes), making releases fast, safe, and boring.
- Drive our observability practice across Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP Cloud Monitoring, turning alerts and dashboards into real reliability and reducing toil through automation.
- Identify and reduce infrastructure tech debt, lead the evolution of our IaC strategy, and drive our migration to a managed secrets solution and stronger platform security.
- Champion the team's use of modern AI development tools, helping engineers integrate them into their daily workflow while maintaining high standards for quality and operational integrity.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You are highly proficient with Terraform and treat infrastructure as a first-class, version-controlled codebase.
- You have built and operated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) and understand GitOps delivery (Flux CD is a strong plus).
- You have run production monitoring and alerting stacks (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalent) and know what good reliability looks like.
- You understand the fundamentals of networking, distributed computing, and asynchronous messaging, and you automate with Bash and Python before repeating yourself.
- You take responsibility beyond your immediate task and dig deep into the stack to find and fix the source of a problem.
- You're hands-on with AI engineering tools (Claude Code, Copilot, agentic workflows) and have opinions on using them well.
- You communicate fluently in English, both verbally and in writing.
- You are legally entitled to work in Germany and do not require visa sponsorship.
Experience
- You have 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, including 2+ years leading engineers through mentoring, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and team development.
- You have deep, hands-on experience running production workloads on a major cloud (GCP preferred) with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker.
- You have hands-on experience with distributed tracing and APM (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or similar) and can introduce it to deepen observability across our services.
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What we offer
- You will have direct influence on technical decisions, architecture, and the growth of our engineering team.
- Work hybrid from our Berlin office, combining focused remote days with regular in-person time for workshops, planning, and collaboration.
- Join a diverse, multicultural team with an open office culture and a few four-legged colleagues.
- Once a year, we take the whole team on a trip abroad. The trip combines team bonding, training, and the chance to live our mission: making vacation smart.
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Smart Host GmbH
Smart Host GmbH offers innovative CRM software solutions for the hospitality industry, helping individual hotels effectively utilize guest data and enhance guest satisfaction.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Hotel and Restaurant Industry, Tourism
DevOps Lead
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
