Senior DevOps Engineer - Germany (d, f, m)

Your mission

As Senior DevOps Engineer at VR Smart Guide you will take a leading role in designing, implementing, and managing the infrastructure that powers our digital solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The mission is to ensure smooth, scalable, and secure operations of our systems, with a focus on maintaining high availability and efficiency, while enabling fast, reliable delivery of new features.

Your role and contribution

• Infrastructure Management : Design and implement cloud infrastructure (preferably GCP) for highly available, scalable, and secure services.
• Automation & CI / CD :   Lead the automation of deployment processes using CI / CD pipelines (e.g., Argo-CD, GitLab) to minimize downtime and enable frequent and reliable releases.
• Maintain our container orchestration cluster (Kubernetes).
• Monitoring & Incident Management :   Establish monitoring systems to ensure uptime, performance, and early detection of issues (e.g., using Prometheus, Grafana). Lead the incident response process and implement preventive measures.
• Maintain and further develop our infrastructure as code, which is build in Terraform.
• Collaboration :   Work closely with engineering teams to integrate DevOps principles into the software development lifecycle, enabling faster and more efficient feature delivery.
• Security : Implement security best practices including regular audits, vulnerability assessments, and security patches. Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Device Management :   Oversee the deployment, configuration, and management of end-user devices (e.g., laptops, workstations), ensuring proper security measures and software compliance.
• Cost Optimization :   Monitor infrastructure costs and optimize resource usage to achieve cost-efficient operations.

Your profile

8+ years in a DevOps role, ideally in a fintech or startup environment

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience)

Cloud Platforms : Proven experience with AWS (preferred) or other cloud providers (Azure, GCP)

CI / CD Pipelines : Experience in designing and maintaining CI / CD workflows (e.g., GitLab, CircleCI, ArgoCD)

Infrastructure as Code : Proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools

Containers & Orchestration : Expertise in container technologies like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes

Monitoring Tools : Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)

Security : Solid understanding of security best practices and compliance (ISO, GDPR)

Scripting & Automation : Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) for automation tasks

Fluent in English

Willing to travel occasionally to Berlin and / or Eschborn

Our benefits

About us

We are VR Smart Guide - we enable entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals to follow their real passion by continuously & proactively managing their liquidity situation and taking the administrative workload from them. Based on our understanding of the SME’s business situation, we proactively offer pre-checked financial products to solve business challenges before they even appear or to make use of potentials before they are realized.

What problem do we want to solve?

For many small businesses managing finances is a necessary evil. As a consequence, they are lacking a holistic overview of their liquidity situation and often miss out of the potential of financial products. When they wantr to finally unlock this potential, they experience long waiting times and manual interactions with financial institutions.

On the other hand, traditional banks are not well prepared for the needs of small businesses and lack adequate features and capabilities to serve this customer segment in a digital and profitable manner.

The innovation

We accompany small businesses in their day-to-day business by providing a continuous overview of their liquidity situation, proactively providing pre-checked financial product offerings that help to avoid liquidity problems before they even emerge. For banks, we provide relevant insights into the most recent business situation of their SME customer base to streamline their sales processes.

This is u s

Behind the VRSG is a multidisciplinary, heterogeneous team that, with a lot of passion and drive, does everything it can every day to solve real everyday problems for small companies and the self-employed. The feeling of actually being able to make a difference contributes a lot to the special team spirit in the VRSG.

For us, it goes without saying that we support each other in our personal development in order to be successful together as a team.

We don't always have to be in one place for this, but our office is the central meeting place where innovation and something special happens.

We are looking for you!

Would you like to strengthen our team?