DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

📋 Job Overview

As a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer at othermo, you will be responsible for operating and developing our services and infrastructure, expanding monitoring, and ensuring that our IoT platform runs stable, secure, and scalable.

🏢 About othermo

othermo connects technology with real customer benefit and focuses on pragmatic solutions rather than buzzwords. At othermo, you work in an environment where your ideas are heard, your contribution matters, and you can directly shape how the energy transition in the existing building stock succeeds.

🎯 The Role

As a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer, you will work with the Platform & Infrastructure team to ensure that our IoT platform runs stable, secure, and scalable. You will develop our Ansible-based server infrastructure at Hetzner and OVH, automate deployment processes, and create transparency in operations through monitoring, alerting, and logging. Your focus will be on operating and developing our internal and customer-oriented services, from deployment to availability and expanding our Airflow instances. You will work closely with the Backend and Embedded teams, act as a sparring partner in architecture decisions and code reviews, and take responsibility in incident cases for quick stabilization and sustainable root cause resolution.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Operation and further development of the Ansible-based server infrastructure at Hetzner and OVH
• Expansion and maintenance of monitoring, alerting, and central logging, including Grafana dashboards
• Responsibility for the operation and further development of our internal and customer-oriented services, including deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and ensuring availability
• Maintenance of the container infrastructure through current and secure base images, standardized build processes, and clean registries (Docker/Podman)
• Expansion and operation of our Airflow instances, including monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization
• Close collaboration with the Backend and Embedded teams in architecture decisions, code reviews, and troubleshooting
• Documentation of configurations, operational processes, and incident findings as well as establishing verifiable and reproducible standards

📌 Required Qualifications

• Good practical experience in the administration and operation of Linux systems, preferably in Fedora- or RHEL-based environments
• Confident handling of Ansible, especially with roles, vault, and inventories
• Experience in operating productive applications, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Routine in handling Docker or Podman as well as container builds and registries
• Structured analysis of technical problems, risk-aware approach, and verifiable as well as reproducible documentation of changes
• Responsible, calm, and solution-oriented action in disruption situations as well as binding communication of risks and dependencies
• Language: German C1, English B2.

🎁 Benefits

• Responsibility for a productive IoT infrastructure with own servers, real gateways, and tangible impact.
• A team that understands infrastructure as a common task and works closely together across disciplinary boundaries
• Clear quality standards and direct exchange with Engineering and Management
• Remote or hybrid in Alzenau possible - flexible designable.
• Optimal equipment, transparency, collegial interaction, and a fixed budget for further training

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information provided.