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).