Shape the Future of Financial Compliance
At INFORM's Risk & Fraud Division, we develop and operate a SaaS solution that helps organizations across Europe meet Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements through reliable and efficient Customer Watchlist Screening.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our product. Working in a cross-functional product team, you'll drive architectural decisions, improve platform reliability, and help build scalable cloud-native services that deliver real value to our customers.
What you can move with us:
- Take technical ownership of our Customer Watchlist Screening platform and actively shape its future development.
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Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native services - contributing hands-on across the full stack where needed.
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Ensure stable operations, high availability, and strong observability across our platform.
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Drive continuous improvements in deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation, and platform efficiency at scale.
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Collaborate closely with Product Management and System Architecture to drive the development of new features and services.
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Guide and mentor fellow engineers, fostering engineering excellence and knowledge sharing within the team.
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Work with platform, cloud, and authentication teams to leverage shared services and build on a scalable infrastructure.
What you bring along:
- Proven DevOps Expertise: 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, building and operating scalable, production-grade SaaS systems.
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Fullstack Engineering Mindset: Strong experience across the full development lifecycle - from backend services to cloud infrastructure, with the ability to contribute hands-on where needed.
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Technical Leadership: Ability to take ownership of architecture decisions, service design, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization in a team context.
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Cloud-Native & Platform Thinking: Deep understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, containerization, and operating distributed systems in production.
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Technical Leadership: Ability to take ownership of architecture decisions, service design, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization in a team context.
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Hands-on Mentality: Comfortable switching between development, infrastructure, and operations topics.
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Agile Collaboration: Experience working in cross-functional product teams with a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset.
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Communication & Ownership: Strong communication skills and the ability to proactively drive technical topics with Product, Architecture, and Platform teams.
Technologies You'll Work With:
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Backend Development: Python (Flask), asynchronous programming, APIs and service integration
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Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS), Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
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Container Platform: Kubernetes, Helm, Flux, KEDA
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Observability & Reliability: Grafana, Prometheus, monitoring and alerting concepts
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CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, automated testing and deployment pipelines
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Frontend (nice to have): TypeScript (e.g. Vue.js / Vite)
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Additional (optional): Exposure to Java-based services
How we value your work:
- Flexible working hours, hybrid work, workation, sabbatical
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Childcare subsidy and other family-friendly benefits
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Urban Sports Club membership and other health/sports offers e.g. bike leasing
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Long-term development prospects with a wide range of further training opportunities
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Varied, healthy and subsidized lunch in our canteen
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Large INFORM summer party, company and team events as well as a Christmas party
Contact person:
Kevin Kiesling . kevin.kiesling(at)inform-software.com . Tel. +49 (0) 2408 9456 0
