Stellenbeschreibung

For our client we are looking for a DevOps Engineer (f/m/d) focus Ansible, Terraform.

Start: 01.12.2025

Duration: 3 months, + wish for a long-term prolongation

Capacity: 80-100%

Location: 75% Remote, 25% Berlin (1 week Berlin / 3 weeks remote in rotation), up to 50% onsite in peak times

Language: English is a must, German is a plus

Role:

The contractor must be at a senior level in the DevOps space with a deep understanding of modern DevOps tools, practices and integration techniques with a proven ability to write production grade provisioning systems and services supporting critical services in fully automated workflows.

Skills (must-have):

- 8+ Years of Experience in professional DevOps Development using Ansible and Terraform.

- Proven advanced Ansible proficiency through multiple projects. Strong mastery of end-system integration via REST APIs and SSH with solid experience in error handling,

- Extensive experience with researching, understanding and building workflows for end-to-end provisioning across multiple end systems within combined workflows.

- Expertise in modular design concepts, with an emphasis on separation of concerns and maintainable codebases.

- Strong grasp of automated testing frameworks (pytest, unittest, or equivalent), show by project history

- Experience working with multiple database paradigms: Relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB).

- Deep understanding of Kubernetes to be able to provide lifecycle support for k8s clusters.

- Experience with hardened DevOps workflows that automatically recover from end system communication failures and can fail gracefully with consistent behavior.

- Good understanding of Linux operating systems especially within Linux networking and security (firewalls) space.

Skills (should-have):

- Rancher & RKE2 (Deployment & Administration), Including use of Terraform / Ansible to manage lifecycle of Rancher and management of the lifecycle of RKE2 clusters through the Rancher platform with Ansible/Terraform.

- JFrog Artifactory (Deployment & Administration), Including use of Terraform to manage lifecycle.

- Hashicorp Vault (Deployment & Administration), Including use of Terraform to manage lifecycle.

- Open Telemetry (Deployment & Administration), Including use of Terraform to manage lifecycle.

- Good understanding of FluxCD and ArgoCD.

- Experience with programmatic (API or Ansible) use of networking fabric controllers (Cisco APIC, Juniper Apstra).

- Experience with programmatic (API or Ansible) use of hypervisor managers (VMware vCenter).

- Experience with programmatic (API or Ansible) use of storage platforms (NetApp ONTAP, Ceph).