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DevOps Engineer

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  • Level
    Experienced
  • Job Field
    IT, DevOps
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Location
    Cologne
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you will ensure the stable operation of our cloud platform, develop monitoring and alerting solutions, and optimize performance and cost analysis in Google Cloud.

    Job Technologies

    Your role in the team

    As a DevOps Engineer in the Development Team of our cloud-based software solution BYRD, you ensure a stable, high-performing, and cost-efficient operation of our platform. Your focus is on building and continuously developing monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions that enable us to detect disruptions early, respond proactively, and prevent outages.

    In close collaboration with our development team, you will oversee the entire lifecycle of our applications, from architecture through operation to optimization, ensuring that reliability, performance, and cost are always balanced.

    The stable and proactive operation of our cloud platforms in Google Cloud:

    • Development, operation, and continuous improvement of monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions (e.g., metrics, logs, traces)
    • Establishment of proactive monitoring for early detection of errors and performance bottlenecks
    • Analysis and optimization of system and application performance
    • Monitoring, analysis, and optimization of cloud costs (FinOps)
    • Definition and implementation of operational, alerting, and reliability standards (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs)
    • Support of development teams with operational issues and production incidents
    • Participation in incident management, root cause analyses, and sustainable improvement measures
    • Further development of our operational and automation processes in Google Cloud

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    Our expectations of you

    Education

    • Degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or a comparable technically oriented qualification

    Qualifications

    • Very good understanding of monitoring, alerting, and observability concepts.
    • Knowledge in performance analysis and optimization of distributed systems
    • Proficient in Linux, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Prometheus)
    • Analytical, structured approach as well as a high level of sense of responsibility
    • Very good knowledge of German and/or English

    Experience

    • Several years of practical experience in operating cloud applications, ideally in Google Cloud.
    • Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud-Native Architectures, and Microservices
    • Experience with cost monitoring and optimization in cloud environments (FinOps fundamentals)
    • Experience in agile development environments (e.g., SCRUM)

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    Job Locations

    • Location Cologne

      Nordrhein-Westfalen

      Germany

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    Bayard Consulting Group

    Bayard Consulting Group

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    Description

  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Consulting, Internet, IT, Telecommunication
  • Location
    Cologne
    Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
    Diversity
    Open for all genders

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