DevOps Engineer - Event Infrastructure

Job Overview

At Statista, we’re all about facts and data, for we are the world's leading business data platform. By providing reliable and easy-to-use data as well as various data analytics products and services, we empower people worldwide to make fact-based decisions. Founded in Hamburg in 2007, we have quickly grown into a global company with offices in major cities such as London, New York, Berlin and Tokyo. And we still have a lot of plans. Our constant growth does not only prove our success, but also keeps creating new development and career opportunities for our employees.

About the Role

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with strong AWS expertise to build and operate our company-wide event bus platform. You will extend our existing real-time event monitoring system into a scalable, self-service platform that enables teams across the organization to produce and consume events reliably.

Key Responsibilities

• Build & Operate Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure for a company-wide event streaming platform using Infrastructure-as-Code (AWS CDK)


• Automate Everything: Create CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and infrastructure provisioning workflows


• Scale the Platform: Architect highly available, fault-tolerant systems using AWS services (ECS, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch)


• Enable Teams: Build self-service tooling and documentation so other teams can onboard to the event platform independently


• Ensure Security: Implement IAM policies, network security, secrets management, and compliance controls


• Monitor & Optimize: Set up observability with Datadog, establish SLOs, and optimize infrastructure costs


• Collaborate: Work closely with development teams to understand requirements and translate them into reliable infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE


• Strong hands-on AWS experience (compute, networking, storage, security, monitoring)


• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK (preferred), Terraform, or CloudFormation


• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)


• Comfortable with Docker, Python scripting, and Linux administration

Nice to Have

• Kafka or event streaming platforms


• Kubernetes/EKS


• Datadog


• FinOps experience


• Internal developer platforms


• AWS certifications

Benefits

Join us and benefit from: Hybrid work and flex-time, international team and social events, subsidized urban mobility and access to fitness and wellness options, free access to Perplexity Enterprise, career & training opportunities, attractive locations and modern offices, mental health support with OpenUp.