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Lead DevOps Engineer (all genders) – SaaS Platform & Cloud

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Shape the Future of Financial Compliance

At INFORM's Risk & Fraud Division, we develop and operate a SaaS solution that helps organizations across Europe meet Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements through reliable and efficient Customer Watchlist Screening.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our product. Working in a cross-functional product team, you'll drive architectural decisions, improve platform reliability, and help build scalable cloud-native services that deliver real value to our customers.

What you can move with us:

  • Take technical ownership of our Customer Watchlist Screening platform and actively shape its future development.
  • Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native services - contributing hands-on across the full stack where needed.
  • Ensure stable operations, high availability, and strong observability across our platform.
  • Drive continuous improvements in deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation, and platform efficiency at scale.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Management and System Architecture to drive the development of new features and services.
  • Guide and mentor fellow engineers, fostering engineering excellence and knowledge sharing within the team.
  • Work with platform, cloud, and authentication teams to leverage shared services and build on a scalable infrastructure.

What you bring along:

  • Proven DevOps Expertise: 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, building and operating scalable, production-grade SaaS systems.
  • Fullstack Engineering Mindset: Strong experience across the full development lifecycle - from backend services to cloud infrastructure, with the ability to contribute hands-on where needed.
  • Technical Leadership: Ability to take ownership of architecture decisions, service design, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization in a team context.
  • Cloud-Native & Platform Thinking: Deep understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, containerization, and operating distributed systems in production.
  • Technical Leadership: Ability to take ownership of architecture decisions, service design, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization in a team context.
  • Hands-on Mentality: Comfortable switching between development, infrastructure, and operations topics.
  • Agile Collaboration: Experience working in cross-functional product teams with a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset.
  • Communication & Ownership: Strong communication skills and the ability to proactively drive technical topics with Product, Architecture, and Platform teams.

Technologies You'll Work With:

  • Backend Development: Python (Flask), asynchronous programming, APIs and service integration
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS), Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
  • Container Platform: Kubernetes, Helm, Flux, KEDA
  • Observability & Reliability: Grafana, Prometheus, monitoring and alerting concepts
  • CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, automated testing and deployment pipelines
  • Frontend (nice to have): TypeScript (e.g. Vue.js / Vite)
  • Additional (optional): Exposure to Java-based services

How we value your work:

  • Flexible working hours, hybrid work, workation, sabbatical
  • Childcare subsidy and other family-friendly benefits
  • Urban Sports Club membership and other health/sports offers e.g. bike leasing
  • Long-term development prospects with a wide range of further training opportunities
  • Varied, healthy and subsidized lunch in our canteen
  • Large INFORM summer party, company and team events as well as a Christmas party

Contact person:

Kevin Kiesling . kevin.kiesling(at)inform-software.com . Tel. +49 (0) 2408 9456 0

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