[Back to all jobs](/?language=en) # DevOps Engineer (f/m/x) Potsdam, Berlin Full-time Permanent employee ## Hi there! *Are you eager to learn new things and implement your own ideas while working with an international and passionate team of professionals?* *At Data4Life, we empower researchers and public-health partners by building secure, compliant, and high-impact digital solutions. As we expand our Health Evidence solutions and researcher-focused developer tooling—we seek a DevOps Engineer with strong Infrastructure as Code development skills and cloud infrastructure experience.* *You will work closely with engineering, researcher, project, and product teams to build, integrate, and evolve our Kubernetes-based Application Tier that enables advancing medical and public-health research and translation applications.* We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Research Enablement team. This is a full time position located in Berlin/Potsdam, with a possibility for hybrid work. ## Your future role * Work in a collaborative and supportive manner with engineers and researchers to enable smooth deployments, handovers, and operational reliability. * Take ownership of our Kubernetes-based Application Tier and drive its evolution across Azure and hybrid environments. * Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions. * Improve and automate platform workflows, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and secrets management to empower internal and external developers. * Help shape the long-term cloud architecture for research workloads, including scale-out strategies, secure data paths, and HPC integrations. * Proactively explore and evaluate new technologies that support research computing, high-performance, and reproducible system design. * Contribute to architectural discussions, documentation, and cross-team decision making around networking, IAM, security boundaries, and service architecture. ## What you need to succeed * You have experience developing and operating Kubernetes-based systems - ideally in managed environments like AKS, EKS, or GKE. * You have experience with at least one modern programming language - with a willingness to learn Go, and shell scripting for Linux systems. * You have hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform, plus familiarity with Helm, GitHub Actions, and GitHub runners. * Strong understanding of cloud networking (VNet/VPC design, private endpoints, DNS, ingress controllers, TLS, routing). * You are familiar with Docker, containerized workloads, PostgreSQL, object storage, and monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana or ELK). * You are a team player and motivated to explore and evaluate new technologies. * Strong communication skills in English (at least C1). * You are comfortable working in research-driven and experimental environments. ## Why you will love working with us * High level of personal responsibility and creative freedom * Work on socially impactful projects in the healthcare sector * Collaboration with leading partners from research, technology, and healthcare * A diverse, interdisciplinary, and international team working across three locations (Potsdam, Berlin, and Singapore) * Flexible working models with the option to work from home * Permanent employment contract with 30 days of vacation * Attractive employee benefits, e.g. private supplementary health insurance, public transport ticket ## Good to know * We especially welcome applicants from the LGBTQI+ community, people with a migration background, people of color, and individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses to the team. * If you need support or special assistance during the application or interview process due to a disability, please feel free to let us know and we are happy to accommodate you as much as possible. * This position offers an unlimited contract. * In this position you will be working from our Berlin/Potsdam office