DevOps Engineering Manager (m/w/d)

Job summary

Scout24 is seeking a DevOps Engineering Manager to lead and develop their DevOps team. The role involves ensuring reliability, availability, scalability, security, and operational excellence of platforms and production systems. Responsibilities include driving CI/CD pipeline development, infrastructure automation, and ensuring compliance with standards like ISO and GDPR.

Qualifications

• Several years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or infrastructure operations.
• Proven experience in technical and disciplinary team leadership.
• Extensive experience operating, scaling, and optimizing business-critical production environments, ideally in regulated industries.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux system administration and operating highly available and secure production systems.
• Strong understanding of modern, scalable system architectures.
• Experience with database technologies like PostgreSQL and MariaDB.
• Practical experience with Git, CI/CD platforms (e.g., Jenkins), infrastructure automation (e.g., Ansible), container technologies (e.g., Docker), application platforms (e.g., Tomcat), and cloud/hybrid infrastructures.
• Proficiency in automation and scripting with Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Experience with information security and compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR, ICS).
• Analytical thinking, structured and solution-oriented work approach.
• Experience using AI tools to enhance productivity and problem-solving.
• Excellent German and English language skills, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and coach the DevOps team, fostering growth and responsibility.
• Assume end-to-end responsibility for reliability, availability, scalability, security, and operational excellence of platforms and production systems.
• Ensure stable, secure, and efficient operation of cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructures.
• Drive continuous development of CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, infrastructure automation, and operational tools.
• Manage monitoring, alerting, observability, incident response, and problem management, establishing best practices for platform operations.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Compliance teams to improve software delivery speed, system stability, and service quality.
• Define and establish operational standards, processes, documentation, and governance structures, ensuring auditable and transparent systems.
• Manage compliance requirements (ISO standards, GDPR, ICS), support audits and risk analyses, and act as a central contact for stakeholders.

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