devops engineer - operational excellence (m/f)

In this IT role, you will manage, develop, and support the technology infrastructure that powers Kuehne+Nagel’s global systems and operations. This contribution is vital to making both special and ordinary moments in the lives of people a reality. In fact, your work enables our teams to deliver fresh fruit, time-sensitive healthcare products and much more to people all around the world. Working in IT at Kuehne+Nagel contributes to more than we imagine.

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How you create impact

You will be a member of a highly skilled, international team that supports and ensures operational excellence within Kuehne + Nagel’s Document & Master Data Solutions department. You will be engaged with DevOps activities and Developer Platform operations, supporting developers in all stages of development. You will be working with enterprise Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and documents solution platforms actively participating in the success of the projects. 
 

What we would like you to bring

• 1-3 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer or Site Reliability engineer.

• 1-3 years of experience working with public cloud infrastructure and services (preferably AWS). 

• Experience in diverse operating systems and technologies (Windows Server, Red Hat Linux (RHEL), PowerShell, Bash, Web Server, APIs, File transfer, Storage, Networking).

• 1-2 years of experience with containerization and container orchestration platforms (especially Kubernetes). 

• Familiarity with at least one scripting language (Python, shell scripting) will be an asset.

• Familiarity with GitOps approach is a plus.

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform/Opentofu, Crossplane or Cloudformation.

• Hands-on experience with Gitlab, Jenkins and/or any other CI/CD tools. 

• Hands-on experience with Configuration management tools is a plus.

• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability solutions (logging, metrics, and distributed tracing) with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or OpenTelemetry

• Experience in working in an agile team and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English. 

What's in it for you

• Manage and automate development and production environments. 

• Provide support for all stages of software delivery lifecycle.

• Create and maintain scripts and infrastructure automations.

• Working together with infrastructure and development teams to find out how to improve developer’s experience. 

• Ensure 24/7 operation of the platforms and fulfil SLOs and KPIs.

• Monitor systems performance, troubleshoot errors, debug & optimize infrastructure functionality.

• Manage permissions, identity & access management. 

• Provide clean and structured documentation.