Senior DevOps Engineer - Monitoring

Tech stack:

• Icinga2, Prometheus, Grafana

• Opsgenie

• Terraform, Ansible

• Kubernetes

• NIS2, Kritis compliance

• Application Performance Management (APM) tools

• Incident Management

• SLA Management

Project description:

Our customer is a leading German producer of customized solutions for the self-supply of solar-powered electricity. This includes photovoltaic and energy storage systems as well as cloud technology solutions helping individuals to achieve energy independence.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer – Monitoring to join our team. The ideal candidate will have in-depth expertise in system and application monitoring, infrastructure automation, and compliance. This role requires strong hands-on skills with tools such as Icinga2, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, and Ansible, as well as proven experience in Kubernetes administration, APM, and incident management.Please note that this position involves occasional on-call duty to handle customer-critical incidents.

Main responsibilities:

• Configure and manage monitoring solutions using Icinga2, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Set up and optimize alerting systems and incident management platforms with Opsgenie and other relevant tools.

• Automate infrastructure and configuration management with Terraform and Ansible.

• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters for performance and reliability.

• Implement and monitor compliance with NIS2 and Kritis security requirements.

• Utilize APM tools to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical applications.

• Lead the Incident Management process, ensuring adherence to on-call duty policies.

• Define, monitor, and continuously improve Service Level Agreements (SLA).

Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant DevOps experience.

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Icinga2, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• At least 2 years of experience with Opsgenie alerting and incident management configuration.

• Proven track record in Terraform and Ansible for automation.

• 3+ years of Kubernetes administration and optimization.

• Strong knowledge of NIS2 and Kritis compliance implementation.

• Experience using APM tools for performance monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Incident management expertise, including on-call duty operations.

• SLA definition, tracking, and improvement experience.

Recruitment process:

• Recruitment screening and experience survey (ca. 1 hour)

• Profile-specific offline assignment (approx. 2–3 evenings of concentrated work, depending on experience)

• Client technical interview (ca. 1 hour)

• Client team interview (ca. 1 hour)

• Offer meeting (ca. 30 mins)