DevOps Engineer (Cloud Native & Data)

We are searching for a DevOps Engineer to develop a data lakehouse platform for a global financial services company. The platform uses sovereign-ready architecture on AWS EKS, with future deployments planned for Azure AKS and on-prem Kubernetes (OpenShift). It runs Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, and an Iceberg-based data catalog, all deployed via GitOps.

• Proven experience with AWS services including EKS, VPC networking, IAM, S3, KMS, and secrets management.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform including modular design, state management, and collaborative workflows.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes administration, troubleshooting, and multi-tenant cluster operations.
• Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD and Helm.
• Expertise in observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, logging systems) and alerting strategies.
• Strong understanding of cloud and container security best practices including identity management, network policies, and encryption.
• Practical knowledge of operating data workloads on Kubernetes (Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow).
• Familiarity with OIDC/SSO integration and CI/CD pipelines.

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, focusing on EKS, networking, IAM, and secure data storage.
• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules for consistent and reliable infrastructure provisioning.
• Administer and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters, including resource management, multi-tenancy, and CRD-based operator workloads.
• Implement GitOps practices using ArgoCD and Helm, maintaining Git as the single source of truth for production environments.
• Own observability by designing metrics, logging, and alerting systems using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and related tools.
• Enforce strong security standards including least-privilege access, network segmentation, encryption, and secure image and secrets management.
• Support and optimize data platform workloads (Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow) running on Kubernetes, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Present technical designs and progress to enterprise stakeholders.
• Work primarily during European business hours with occasional evening calls to sync with international teams.