DevOps Engineer (H/U/M/A/N) with a focus on Kubernetes - hybrid working model (Düsseldorf, Germany)

freshcells systems engineering GmbH is a software service provider based in Düsseldorf with a dynamic team of over 50 creative experts from various fields.

We focus on authenticity, individual talent development and open communication.

We build on respect, trust and responsibility. As an innovation-driven company, we invest in new ideas. We know that the best results are achieved as a team. We make mistakes, but we learn from them. We are open and courageous for new ways.

Join us on our exciting journey in what is probably the most important and forward-looking area - software development - as a DevOps Engineer (H/U/M/A/N) in full-time hybrid.

What we offer you:

• Flex-time for early birds and night owls


• Flexible home office days


• Company pension scheme with employer contribution


• Subsidy for the Germany public transport ticket


• Subsidy for Urban Sports Club


• Benefits portal with offers from online shops and physical stores of various brands


• A secure, long-term workplace


• Regular feedback sessions, team meetings & retrospectives


• Space for your own ideas and personal development


• Digital training courses, freely available to all employees


• Support with relocation processes, as well as free German courses for newcomers


• Shared activities such as summer and winter parties, monthly company breakfasts, etc.


• A dog-friendly work environment

• Implementing best practices for automation, scalability, and system reliability on high-traffic web applications hosted with kubernetes


• Supporting in maintaining customer infrastructure across Kubernetes upgrades and software supply chain changes


• Participating in continuous improvement processes, with a focus on supporting full-stack developers managing complex deployments (in development environment)


• Supporting freshcells adopt and implement DevOps and MLOps best practices: In this position, you will have up to 25% of your working time for learning and experimenting, based on the needs and direction of freshcells

• Expertise with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)


• Expertise with helm, including writing and maintaining custom Helm charts


• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform or similar)


• Experience running production workloads on Kubernetes


• Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines


• Familiarity with GitOps and continuous delivery tools such as flux CD


• Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code tools (ideally Terraform)


• Familiarity with linux, shell scripting and/or Python


• Experience with observability, understanding how to set up and use logging, metrics, tracing, alerting


• Experience with creating machine learning pipelines or willingness to learn it on the job


• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• Experience with on-call duty


• Experience with data engineering, MLOps and training AI workloads, metaflow


• Experience with Argo CD, Argo workflows


• Experience with SQL databases and Redis

All people are welcome here, regardless of gender, age, sexual identity, origin, religion, ideology, with or without a disability. The main thing is that you fit in with us.

If you are interested in a wide-ranging portfolio of projects, want to continuously develop yourself and enjoy working independently and responsibly, get in touch with us: recruiting((at)) freshcells(.)de. We look forward to hearing from you!