Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, Application, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Hamburg, Berlin, Koblenz
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop CI pipelines, optimize deployment processes, and enhance software delivery. You will work on infrastructure solutions, manage GitHub repositories, and support teams in implementing standards.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a Senior System Engineer, you will shape how software moves from code to production across Seven Education's product portfolio.
- You will own and improve the delivery experience for engineering teams by making pipelines, deployments, and release processes faster, safer, and more reliable.
- You will contribute to the design of shared infrastructure, observability, and build engineering standards alongside the infrastructure team.
- In this role, you combine deep technical expertise with informal leadership to strengthen build and delivery engineering across the group.
- Own and evolve CI pipelines across multiple product lines, with a focus on reliability, speed, and maintainability.
- Manage the Seven Education GitHub organization, including repository structure, access control, branching strategies, code review workflows, and secrets management.
- Design, maintain, and improve application deployment tooling, including Helm charts, GitOps workflows, and deployment pipelines.
- Define and refine deployment standards such as environment promotion, rollback strategies, and release processes.
- Improve build performance and reduce friction in the software delivery lifecycle.
- Manage container image registries and support a reliable artifact lifecycle.
- Partner closely with product engineering teams to shorten feedback loops and make deployments more predictable and repeatable.
- Act as a trusted technical counterpart for build and delivery topics across the organization.
- Support and grow the technical capability of the build engineering team through guidance, collaboration, and shared standards.
- Define infrastructure standards and patterns (networking, resource limits, namespace strategies, storage) that new and migrating products adopt as they onboard.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Solid understanding of the container deployment pipeline, from artifact and registry management through Kubernetes application deployment with Helm and GitOps tools (ArgoCD or Flux), including deployment strategies, rollbacks, and release promotion across environments.
- Ability to reason about latency, availability, failover, and RPO/RTO trade-offs in the context of platform reliability and continuous delivery pipelines.
- A strong understanding of the full software delivery lifecycle, including branching models, environment management, and release coordination.
- Familiarity with database operations such as performance tuning, backup strategies, and high availability configurations is a plus.
- Professional working proficiency in English, with the ability to collaborate effectively in an international environment.
Experience
- Several years of experience as a Systems Engineer or in a similar role focused on software delivery, build infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with GitHub at organizational scale (repository management, GitHub Actions, access policies, and secrets handling) and with designing, maintaining, and optimizing CI pipelines.
- Experience with observability tooling and practices including setting up dashboards, log aggregation, alerting.
- Experience with implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Confidence working across multiple teams with a collaborative mindset to translate technical complexity into scalable standards and enhance developer experience.
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What we offer
- This role is based in Hamburg, Berlin or Koblenz and works in a hybrid setup.
- You combine flexible remote work with regular onsite presence at one of our hubs, as personal exchange is an important part of how we collaborate, learn, and grow together.
- Being on site supports close cross-functional collaboration, strong alignment across the group, and a real connection to our culture.
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Seven Education
Seven Education, formerly known as Sdui Group, is a European EdTech provider headquartered in Koblenz, Germany. The company offers AI-driven solutions for over 28,000 educational institutions and has experienced significant growth through acquisitions and a major funding round. With over 350 employees, Seven Education focuses on automating administrative processes in schools.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Education System
Senior System Engineer
- Location
- Hamburg, Berlin, Koblenz
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
