Key responsibilities

• Own the hybrid development landscape: Manage, scale and evolve our development infrastructure, environment, tools and auxiliary systems, with Azure DevOps (on-premise and cloud) as the CI/CD backbone, VMWare ESXi/vSphere as the core virtualization infrastructure and Azure for our cloud-based environments.
• Build secure CI/CD pipelines: Implement and maintain multi‑stage pipelines (build, test, scan, deploy) with quality gates and integrated security throughout (SAST, DAST, SCA, container and infrastructure scanning) following OWASP DevSecOps guidance.
• Automate everything with IaC: Implement end‑to‑end automation using Ansible, Terraform, and Azure ARM/Bicep—including VM lifecycle automation on VMware, repeatable environment builds and golden images/templates.
• Provision and operate developer environments: Provide and support standardized, secure environments for our development teams, ensuring reliable build, test, and deployment workflows across Windows and Linux.
• Containerization & orchestration: Standardize Docker container builds and orchestration for reliable, reproducible deployments.
• Artifact & code management: Administer Git (incl. Git LFS) and artifact repositories (e.g., Nexus), manage the releases of our multiple customer products.
• Observability & reliability: Establish and evolve monitoring, logging, and alerting; drive performance tuning, capacity planning and cost optimization.
• Mentor & collaborate: Provide technical leadership and coaching to engineers and collaborate closely with product development teams in Germany and India to drive standards and continuous improvement.
• Operational excellence: Create runbooks, documentation and feed AI based knowledge bots; participate in incident response and support critical go‑live periods as needed.

Required skills

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.• Experienced to effectively leverage AI copilots and AI-assisted productivity tools
• Deep expertise with Azure DevOps and modern CI/CD practices for both on-premise and cloud environments.
• Strong scripting and IaC knowledge, including Ansible, ARM, Bicep, Terraform.
• Solid security engineering proficiency, covering secure systems, secure pipelines, vulnerability scanning, and adherence to compliance frameworks.
• Hands‑on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration.
• Proven experience with VMware ESXi/vSphere.
• Experience with installation and configuration of JBoss, Wildfly, Nginx, ActiveMQ, MS SQL Server or Oracle Server is an advantage.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially when working with international, distributed engineering teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in German and English.