DevOps Engineer

🕒 March 28

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blau direkt

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1999

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

Fintech • Insurance • SaaS

blau direkt is a technology-driven provider for insurance brokers, offering a comprehensive platform to streamline insurance and investment processes. With over twenty years of experience, the company aims to enhance the productivity and efficiency of broker operations through innovative software solutions and automation tools. Their services cater to small and medium businesses, large corporations, and startups, focusing on digital transformation to reduce operational costs and improve customer satisfaction.

📋 Description

• Collaborate closely with architects, developers, QA, and security teams to ensure smooth and reliable environment operations. • Work in close partnership with the platform team, based on shared ownership, knowledge exchange, and mutual support. • Own and operate containerized application platforms based on Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. • Design and deliver dynamic test environments at scale, including multiple parallel, per–merge request (branch-based) deployments. • Build, maintain, and standardize CI/CD pipelines by creating reusable templates and components in GitLab CI. • Drive deployment automation and GitOps practices. • Identify operational bottlenecks and implement automation to reduce manual effort and improve delivery speed. • Embed security-by-design across the SDLC, including pipeline hardening and automated security checks. • Build and operate observability platforms: monitoring, logging, and diagnostics (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK/Loki, etc.). • Participate in on-call and incident response, including troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems. • Take end-to-end ownership of the solutions you build (“you build it, you run it”).

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or SRE in web-based systems. • Strong expertise in Docker: image building, maintenance, registries, Docker Compose. • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes: deployments, networking, ingress, secrets/configs, troubleshooting. • CI/CD expertise with GitLab CI, including deployment automation (Helm or Kustomize). • Experience with branch-based / ephemeral environments, or the ability to design and deliver such a solution in practice. • Observability know-how: metrics, logs, and tracing with Grafana and related tooling. • Ingress / reverse proxy experience (e.g. Traefik or similar): TLS, Let’s Encrypt, routing, mTLS. • Security and IAM knowledge: OAuth2 / OIDC, SSO, token and permission management. • Excellent communication skills, strong collaboration mindset, and willingness to help others. • Fluent English.

🏖️ Benefits

• Private healthcare • Cafeteria system • Training budget €800 per year • Integration meetings (internal training, hackathon, integration trips and meetings) • Referral Bonus • Startup atmosphere • No dress code • Flexible hours and working format - remote or hybrid • Modern office, Chillout zone, Standing desk, parking for bicycles, and a cloakroom with showers • Regular office lunches and integration meetings • Some international travels included