DevOps Team Lead
Location: remote in Germany
Language requirements: English fluent
Experience requirements: working experience as a DevOps Engineer or a similar position
Employment type: Full Time employment
The Role: For DF Deutsche Fiskal GmbH, part of the fiskaly group we are seeking a DevOps Team Lead, who ensures reliable operation of our cloud product while guiding a skilled team of DevOps engineers. Your role bridges leadership, architecture, operations, and agile delivery practices. We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader with a strong engineering background and a passion for agile DevOps culture for our subsidiary DF Deutsche Fiskal GmbH.
Your Responsibilities
- You lead and develop an international DevOps engineering team, aligning team goals with product and business strategy while fostering a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.
- You mentor and support your team members through coaching, performance development, and by guiding recruitment, capacity planning, and onboarding of new engineers.
- You take technical ownership of our cloud operations (preferably in MS Azure), ensuring high system reliability, scalability, and performance in coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
- You drive the evolution of our Kubernetes-based cloud architecture and are responsible for robust CI/CD processes and modern DevOps practices.
- You automate and optimize deployment, monitoring, and maintenance workflows using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Opentofu, and GitLab CI/CD.
- You ensure operational excellence by managing incident, problem, and change processes and by designing and optimizing our development, test, and production environments.
Required Qualifications
- You successfully completed technical studies or equivalent IT training
- You have a proactive mindset, team spirit, and worked in a cross-functional, international setting
- You have proven experience in leading international development or DevOps or Operations teams and you have the ability to manage priorities effectively
- Or you want to reach the next level and start your leadership role based on 5 years DevOps experience.
- You have hands-on experience with: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- Infrastructure as Code is not new to you: Terraform, Opentofu
- You worked with CI/CD Tools like GitLab and your preferred Operating Systems are SLES, RedHat, CoreOS, Ubuntu
- You worked with Cloud Platforms, preferably with MS Azure
- You have experience Bash, Golang, Python (Java – e.g., Spring Boot, Liberty – is a plus)
- For Observability & Monitoring you worked with: Elastic Search, fluentD, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus
- You worked in an agile setting: Practical knowledge of Scrum and Kanban
- You worked with Databases like MongoDB, Redis (or comparable systems)
- You have experience in Application Management, DevOps Operations, Networking & Cloud Infrastructure Administration
- You preferred Atlassian Tools are JIRA, Confluence
- Analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, and a high sense of responsibility
- You have a passion for learning, sharing knowledge, and applying new practices
What we can offer
- Strategic leadership role in a high-impact, innovation-driven environment
- Full technical ownership and influence over architecture and operations
- Dynamic, agile, and cross-functional team setup
- Modern DevOps toolchain and cloud-native infrastructure
- Flexible working conditions and remote/hybrid collaboration
- Open and feedback-oriented company culture
- Emphasis on automation, quality, and operational excellence
- Moderate travel requirements (~10–20%, for workshops or team events)