Senior DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

At shipzero, we believe that cleaner logistics and better business go hand in hand. We help companies measure, understand, and reduce the carbon emissions in their supply chains — with granular, shipment-level data that turns sustainability from a compliance exercise into a competitive advantage. Our story: Less Carbon. More Margin. We're a team of around 45 people in Hamburg, and we're looking for the person who becomes the expert voice on emissions methodology — internally and in the market.

🏢 About shipzero

shipzero is a company focused on sustainability in logistics, helping businesses measure and reduce carbon emissions in their supply chains. We are based in Hamburg and are part of an innovative, international, and growing start-up environment.

🎯 The Role

You will be responsible for conceptualizing, managing, and monitoring cloud resources to improve overall performance and maintain efficiency. You will also build, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, efficient, and automated software delivery.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, manage and monitor cloud resources to improve overall performance and maintain efficiency
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, efficient, and automated software delivery.
• Drive our information security practices within engineering to help keep our architecture scalable, safe and compliant
• Explore and champion AI-assisted and agentic workflows across Product, Engineering, and other business functions, identifying opportunities for automation and implementing practical AI-powered workflows.
• Build and maintain observability via Datadog to support other teams
• Mentor other teams on DevOps best practices

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of relevant professional engineering experience, including substantial hands-on experience with DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience deploying infrastructure via Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Experience with information security topics and practices, including working with an Information Security Management System (ISMS), security controls, risk management, and compliance requirements.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Hands-on experience with modern AI tooling and building AI-assisted, agentic and automated workflows across Product and Engineering.
• German language skills are a nice-to-have, not required
• Experience working with microservices architectures and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with data engineering concepts and tooling, including data pipelines, data warehouses, and reliable data processing workflows, is a nice-to-have.

🎁 Benefits

• #purpose - together we create a sustainable future
• #team - an innovative, international, and growing start-up environment, a friendly and open team atmosphere, and regular team events
• #personalgrowth - a challenging role, a supportive team, and the opportunity to learn, contribute and implement your ideas
• #flexibility - a hybrid work model with the option of remote work and a modern workplace in Hamburg's Speicherstadt

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