Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/x)

Trust something new, grow beyond itself and redefine the boundaries of the feasible. That is exactly what our employees can and should live daily. To set the pace with our innovations and make it great. Because there are a lot of fascinating people behind every successful company.

ZEISS employees work in an open and modern environment with numerous development and further training opportunities. Our culture is characterized by expert knowledge and team spirit. All this is supported by the special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl-Zeiss Foundation: to advance science and society together.

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Diversity is part of ZEISS. We look forward to your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, world view, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

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The Carl Zeiss Group's Corporate Information Technology (CIT) is a central part of the corporate strategy that develops and implements innovative IT solutions to increase efficiency and competitiveness. CIT ensures that technological advances and digital transformations are seamlessly integrated into the business processes through close cooperation with various departments. Design, implementation and continuous development of a scalable, secure and highly available cloud infrastructure based on Microsoft Azure.

Build and support modern CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps for efficient and automated software delivery.

Administration and further development of our Kubernetes environments (AKS), including container orchestration, deployment and helmet charter management.

Automation of infrastructure and configuration processes with Terraform and Ansible to ensure stability and reproducibility.

Close cooperation with development and platform teams to ensure smooth integration, delivery and safe operation of applications.

Active participation in the development of our internal cloud platform based on Python and Django.

Ensuring monitoring, logging and application security using modern tools such as Blackduck, Polaris and Seeker.

In this role, you actively shape our cloud infrastructure and development processes and make a decisive contribution to the stability, security and scalability of our platform solutions. You can use your technical know-how in a versatile environment – from automation to secure provision of modern applications.

Successfully completed studies of (economic) informatics, engineering or a comparable discipline.

Multiannual professional experience (at least 2 years) in a DevOps role or a comparable technical environment focusing on cloud and automation solutions.

Funded knowledge in the Microsoft Azure Cloud as well as in the planning and operation of cloud-based infrastructure architectures.

Practical experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub or similar tools to implement efficient CI/CD pipelines.

Comprehensive knowledge in the administration of Kubernetes clusters (AKS) and the use of helmets to provide and manage containerized applications.

Safe handling of infrastructure-as-code solutions such as Terraform and Ansible for automating deployments and configurations.

Experience in object-oriented software development with Python, ideally in the context of modern platform architectures.

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