DevOps Engineer

TL;DR

DevOps Engineer: Building and evolving Kubernetes-based Application Tier on Azure and hybrid environments with an accent on Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability. Focus on shaping long-term cloud architecture for research workloads and evaluating new technologies for high-performance and reproducible system design.

Location: Hybrid work in Berlin/Potsdam, Germany, with regular office presence required.

Company

hirify.global is a nonprofit digital health organization focused on making health data accessible, standardized, and secure to advance medical and public-health research.

What you will do

• Work collaboratively to ensure smooth deployments, handovers, and operational reliability.
• Take ownership of and evolve the Kubernetes-based Application Tier across Azure and hybrid environments.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions.
• Improve and automate platform workflows, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and secrets management.
• Help shape long-term cloud architecture for research workloads, including scale-out strategies and HPC integrations.
• Explore and evaluate new technologies supporting research computing, high-performance, and reproducible system design.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, documentation, and cross-team decision making.

Requirements

• Experience operating Kubernetes-based systems, ideally in managed environments like AKS, EKS, or GKE.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform, plus familiarity with Helm and GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking (VNet/VPC design, private endpoints, DNS, ingress controllers, TLS, routing).
• Experience with Linux systems, shell scripting, and at least one modern programming language (with a willingness to learn Go).
• Familiarity with Docker, containerized workloads, PostgreSQL, object storage, and monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana or ELK).
• English: C1+ required.

Culture & Benefits

• Nonprofit work with a clear purpose: making the world a healthier place.
• Diverse and international team of professionals across Potsdam, Berlin, and Singapore.
• Real work-life balance with flexible working hours, 30 days of paid vacation, and possibility for mobile work.
• Support in areas of private healthcare and sustainable mobility.
• Employee-driven initiatives like climate and DEI.