DevOps Engineer with a focus on Kubernetes (m/f/d) hybrid/full-remote in full-time

You work in a dynamic software engineering environment and are responsible for the reliability, scalability, and automation of our high-traffic web applications.

In doing so, you tackle complex infrastructure challenges, manage Kubernetes upgrades, and support our full-stack developers, having a direct impact on the quality and stability of our customers' platforms.

Your Responsibilities 

• 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

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

freshcells systems engineering GmbH is a software provider based in Düsseldorf with a dynamic team of over 60 creative experts from various disciplines.

At freshcells, authenticity, individual talent development, and open communication are at the heart of everything we do. We rely on respect, trust, and responsibility. As an innovation-driven company, we continuously invest in new ideas. We know the best results come from teamwork. Mistakes happen—but we learn from them. We are open and courageous when it comes to exploring new paths.

Join us on our exciting journey in one of the most significant and future-shaping fields – software development – as a DevOps Engineer! 

What we offer you:

• Flexible remote-work days

• Flex-time for early risers and night owls

• A dog-friendly working environment

• Regular exchange, feedbacks, team meetings & retrospectives

• Monthly Company Breakfast

• Room for own ideas and personal development

• Digital training courses, available to every employee at his or her own discretion

• Subsidy for Deutschlandticket

• Subsidy for Urban Sports Club membership

• Special offers on travel, technology and more

• Bike leasing via JobRad

• Support with relocating processes

• Free German courses for newcomers

Diversity & Inclusion

All people are welcome here, regardless of gender, age, origin, sexual identity, religion, or disability. The decisive factor is that we are a good fit, both professionally and personally.