Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure & Terraform

Our requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering with clear evidence of Senior-level ownership. Ability to work independently, make technical decisions, guide other engineers, and communicate clearly in English (C1+).
• Deep hands-on Terraform expertise is a core requirement, including personally designing, implementing, and operating production infrastructure at scale. Nice to have: HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification or another relevant Terraform certification.
• Proven experience managing Terraform across multiple complex production environments, with strong knowledge of modules, state, lifecycle, imports, dependencies, and deployment strategies. A plus: Experience managing infrastructure across a large number of production environments.
• Strong hands-on Azure experience, including secure networking, identity, access management, secrets management, and production operations.
• Strong Azure DevOps experience, particularly designing and maintaining enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines. Nice to have: Experience with GitHub Actions.
• Good understanding of the complete SDLC, including automated testing, code quality, security scanning, artifact management, approvals, and release governance. Additional advantage: Experience with Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, or container/image security tooling.
• Solid Kubernetes experience, preferably with AKS, plus strong Docker and containerization knowledge.
• Proven experience leading complex production incidents and driving root-cause analysis and follow-up improvements.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, trade-offs, incidents, and delivery challenges clearly.

Optional

• Experience with Azure AI / Foundry, ML platforms, or data-heavy workloads. Additional asset: Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, or similar AI orchestration, evaluation, and observability platforms.

Your responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Azure infrastructure using Terraform as the primary Infrastructure as Code platform.
• Own Terraform architecture across multiple production environments, including modules, state, versioning, dependencies, and environment separation.
• Define reusable IaC standards, patterns, and automation that can be adopted across engineering teams.
• Build and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines covering build, test, infrastructure deployment, application deployment, approvals, rollback, and release controls.
• Establish strong SDLC practices including code quality, security scanning, quality gates, and tools such as SonarQube.
• Design secure Azure environments using VNets, private endpoints, RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and least-privilege principles.
• Operate and improve AKS environments, including deployment, scaling, networking, observability, security, and troubleshooting.
• Lead production incident management, including investigation, prioritization, technical coordination, communication, resolution, and root-cause follow-up.
• Make and communicate architectural decisions, clearly explaining trade-offs, risks, operational impact, and maintainability.
• Take end-to-end ownership of platform initiatives while guiding engineers and communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About the project

This is how we organize our work

Please remember to submit your application in English.

What we offer

• A stable employment contract (please note that we do not offer B2B contracts).
• Private medical insurance in the highest package fully paid by the employer (VIP Allianz).
• Multisport card fully financed by the employer.
• Annual bonus (dependent on the evaluation).
• Employee referral program.
• Remote work subsidy of €500 to start, then monthly bonus for utilities.
• International Travel Safety card.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning and Headspace.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Microsoft Workplace Discount Program.
• Access to an online platform offering exclusive discounts and special offers from well-known brands.
• Birthday book for the employee.
• Internal Learning&Development Department with more than 5 000 different training courses.
• Our office is pet-friendly, so feel free to bring your furry friend to work and enjoy their company throughout the day!
• Extended Business Travel Option - opportunity to extend your business trips and stay a little longer to explore some of Europe’s most exciting cities.

Benefits

• private medical care
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• remote work opportunities
• flexible working time
• integration events
• mobile phone available for private use
• computer available for private use
• coffee / tea
• drinks
• parking space for employees
• extra social benefits
• sharing the costs of tickets to the movies, theater
• holiday funds
• employee referral program

Recruitment stages

• 1.
  Meeting with Recruiter
• 2.
  Meeting with a Supervisor
• 3.
  Meeting with the Team

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