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DevOps / Platform Engineer

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  • Level
    Senior
  • Job Field
    IT, DevOps
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Salary
    50.000 to 75.000€ Gross/Year
  • Location
    Hanover
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you will take responsibility for the stable operation and automation of infrastructure, enhance monitoring stacks, and manage security concepts and CI/CD deployments for platform services and customer environments.

    Job Technologies

    Your role in the team

    • You take responsibility for the stable operation, the further development of the infrastructure, and automation around segments, customer environments, and platform services (Opensearch, Media CDN, S3/MinIO, RabbitMQ, Monitoring).
    • You operate and expand the Hubble segments (Loadbalancer, Web, MySQL, Opensearch, MinIO, Redis servers), including capacity planning, patch management, and incident response.
    • You work on the further development of our monitoring stack (Grafana, UptimeRobot, Sitespeed Dashboard) and ensure reliable SLOs.
    • You further develop Ansible playbooks, inventories, and tooling to enable the smooth and reproducible deployment of new customer environments, service groups, and segments.
    • You are responsible for and further develop the platform services - Opensearch cluster, Media CDN v2 (IMGProxy), RabbitMQ, S3 storage (MinIO), Elasticsearch hosting V2 (including LXD VMs, WireGuard, eslb) - including upgrade paths and migration strategies.
    • You maintain and expand our security concept (AppArmor profiles, sgexec, service group isolation, TLS including post-quantum KEX, HSTS, Let's Encrypt short lifetimes) and evaluate new mitigations and hardening measures.
    • You support Dev teams with GitLab CI/CD deployments to the platform, improve the developer experience (logs, debugging, limits transparency), and ensure that modern DevOps workflows coexist seamlessly with legacy deployment mechanisms (FTP, proprietary mechanisms).
    • You contribute to topics such as Node.js hosting, containerization, traffic/cost modeling, and product-related roadmap decisions.

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    Our expectations of you

    Qualifications

    • Senior-level Linux administration (Ubuntu LTS), including Systemd, network stack, kernel/performance troubleshooting (strace, perf, sysstat).
    • Web stack operation: nginx, Apache2, PHP-FPM (multiple PHP versions in parallel), TLS/Let's Encrypt.
    • Databases: MySQL/MariaDB including replication and HA, Redis.
    • Search: Elasticsearch or Opensearch - Cluster operation, index/shard management.
    • Cloud infrastructure, ideally Hetzner Cloud (or comparable: AWS/GCP/Hetzner Robot), including VPC/network setup.
    • Security: Linux hardening, AppArmor or SELinux, TLS hygiene, handling multi-tenant isolation requirements.
    • Monitoring & Observability: Grafana, Prometheus or comparable tools, Log aggregation.
    • Shell scripting and at least one higher-level language (Python, Go, or PHP) for writing tooling.
    • CI/CD, especially GitLab CI/CD.
    • Working style: structured, documentation-oriented (Confluence/Markdown), communicative in German; willingness to take responsibility for production systems.
    • Assuming readiness and responsibility in our monitoring and on-call processes.

    Experience

    • Experience with Configuration Management, preferably Ansible (Roles, Inventories, idempotent Playbooks).

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    What we offer

    • A well-defined, proprietary hosting stack with plenty of room for customization.
    • Over 20 colleagues in development with a highly technical focus.
    • Very short decision-making paths.
    • Modern security and TLS topics are everyday matters.
    • Transparent communication via Confluence, recurring Hubble-Cloud meeting with continuous minutes.
    • Remote-friendly working.
    • Structured onboarding with a buddy by your side.
    • Responsibility for own projects as well as additional structural and conceptual tasks within the framework of technological development.
    • Budget for individual training, conferences, etc.
    • Employer-funded occupational pension scheme.
    • Subsidy for the job ticket.
    • Purchasing advantages through Corporate Benefits.
    • Good work-life balance - all colleagues have a certain degree of freedom to decide whether they work in the office, from home, or in a mix, and how they organize their working hours.
    • Our sessions take place on Friday - here we take time for learning and knowledge transfer.
    • We celebrate our project successes together as a team.
    • Regular team events.
    • Flexible working hours - with core hours to ensure coordination with colleagues and clients.
    • Mobile working is possible, but regular contact with colleagues in the office must be ensured.
    • 30 days of vacation.

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    Job Locations

    • Location Hanover

      Niedersachsen

      Germany

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    digital.manufaktur GmbH

    digital.manufaktur GmbH

    We are a diverse team of technology experts, developers, creative interface designers and successful project managers with many years of e-commerce experience. As digital.manufaktur, we are one of Germany's most experienced agencies in the field of Magento, Shopware and Akeneo.

    Description

  • Founding year
    2006
  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Trade
  • Logo digital.manufaktur GmbH

    DevOps / Platform Engineer

    Salary
    50.000 to 75.000€ Gross/Year
    Location
    Hanover
    Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
    Diversity
    Open for all genders

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