DevOps Engineer (GitOps/AWS)

Project overview

Westhouse is one of the leading recruitment companies for the placement of highly qualified specialists from the entire IT lifecycle and engineering sector.

For our client, we are currently looking for a

DevOps Engineer (GitOps/AWS) - Employed (m/f/d) - Frankfurt & Remote

Framework Information

Your Qualifications

• Reference: 180419
• Start: 2026-10-16
• Duration: 16.10.2026
• 31.12.2029
• Location: Frankfurt & Remote
• Scope of Work: full-time710 PT
• of which 71 PT on-site
• Languages: German
• (Must) 5 years of experience in building and operating CI/CD pipelines including container builds, promotions, and quality gates (e.g., GitLab CI/CD)
• (Must) 5 years of experience with container orchestration and platform operations (Kubernetes, EKS and/or AKS, Helm)
• (Must) 5 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK, Bicep, FluxCD/ArgoCD)
• (Must) Responsibility for automation and operation of scalable cloud environments in AWS and/or Microsoft Azure in 2 projects
• (Must) 3 years of experience with AI-supported tools in the development/operations environment (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Amazon Q for code generation, automation, or documentation)
• (Should) 3 years of experience with Observability and Alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry) in containerized environments
• (Should) 3 years of experience with security and compliance automation (Zero Trust, IAM/RBAC, Policy-as-Code via OPA/Gatekeeper or Azure Policy, Container Security with Trivy)
• (Should) 3 years of experience with IT Service Management according to ITIL (Incident, Problem, Change Management) including on-call duty / 2nd-3rd level support
• (Should) 3 years of experience in working with agile frameworks (e.g., SAFe including PI Planning/ART level, Scrum, Kanban)
• (Should) Experience with Event-Driven Architecture / Messaging (e.g., Apache Kafka, AWS MSK, EventBridge, SNS/SQS) from 2 projects
• (Should) 3 years of experience in backend/service development for pipeline and platform integration (Java/Spring Boot, REST/OpenAPI; optional TypeScript/Angular)

Responsibilities

Interested?

Interested? We look forward to receiving your comprehensive CV in electronic form.

Your Contact Persons

Sven Schäfer

P: [contact removed]

E: [contact removed]

• Implementation and maintenance of infrastructure and platform tools such as cloud computing platforms, container orchestration and management tools, among others;
• Automation of processes for software deployment, configuration, and management, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD);
• Development of scripts and tools for automating repetitive tasks and processes;
• Monitoring and analysis of system and application performance and availability;
• Cooperation with developers to ensure that applications run smoothly in production and meet the client's business requirements;
• Promotion of a collaborative culture and continuous improvement between development and operations;
• Introduction and implementation of DevOps practices, including Agile methods, continuous integration and deployment, and test automation;
• Review of the security of systems and applications, including access control,
• Attack detection and prevention, and protection against cyber-attacks;
• Documentation of processes, systems, and applications;
• Evaluation of new technologies and tools that can improve DevOps practices.

Project details

• Start: 2026-10-16
• Duration: 16.10.2026 - 31.12.2029
• Remote: remote
• Location: Frankfurt & Remote, DE
• Languages: German