Lead DevOps Engineer (all genders) – SaaS Platform & Cloud

Shape the Future of Financial Compliance

At INFORMs Risk & Fraud Division we develop and operate a SaaS solution that helps organizations across Europe meet Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements through reliable and efficient Customer Watchlist Screening.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer youll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our product. Working in a cross-functional product team youll drive architectural decisions improve platform reliability and help build scalable cloud-native services that deliver real value to our customers.

• Take technical ownership of our Customer Watchlist Screening platform and actively shape its future development.
• Design build and operate scalable reliable and secure cloud-native services - contributing hands-on across the full stack where needed.
• Ensure stable operations high availability and strong observability across our platform.
• Drive continuous improvements in deployment pipelines infrastructure automation and platform efficiency at scale.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management and System Architecture to drive the development of new features and services.
• Guide and mentor fellow engineers fostering engineering excellence and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Work with platform cloud and authentication teams to leverage shared services and build on a scalable infrastructure.

• Proven DevOps Expertise: 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps SRE or Platform Engineering building and operating scalable production-grade SaaS systems.
• Fullstack Engineering Mindset: Strong experience across the full development lifecycle - from backend services to cloud infrastructure with the ability to contribute hands-on where needed.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to take ownership of architecture decisions service design scalability reliability and cost optimization in a team context.
• Cloud-Native & Platform Thinking: Deep understanding of modern cloud-native architectures containerization and operating distributed systems in production.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to take ownership of architecture decisions service design scalability reliability and cost optimization in a team context.
• Hands-on Mentality: Comfortable switching between development infrastructure and operations topics.
• Agile Collaboration: Experience working in cross-functional product teams with a pragmatic solution-oriented mindset.
• Communication & Ownership: Strong communication skills and the ability to proactively drive technical topics with Product Architecture and Platform teams.

Technologies Youll Work With:

• Backend Development: Python (Flask) asynchronous programming APIs and service integration
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2 DynamoDB SQS SNS) Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Container Platform: Kubernetes Helm Flux KEDA
• Observability & Reliability: Grafana Prometheus monitoring and alerting concepts
• CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions automated testing and deployment pipelines
• Frontend (nice to have): TypeScript (e.g. / Vite)
• Additional (optional): Exposure to Java-based services

• Flexible working hours hybrid work workation sabbatical
• Childcare subsidy and other family-friendly benefits
• Urban Sports Club membership and other health/sports offers e.g. bike leasing
• Long-term development prospects with a wide range of further training opportunities
• Varied healthy and subsidized lunch in our canteen
• Large INFORM summer party company and team events as well as a Christmas party

Kevin Kiesling . (at) . Tel. 49 (0)