[Hiring] DevOps Engineer @Alcumus Job at Alcumus in Germany

Overview

Sep 22, 2025 - Alcumus is hiring a remote DevOps Engineer. Location: USA. Veriforce is seeking a DevOps Engineer to be a key member of the Veriforce software development team, working to deploy, monitor, and operate our software across key production systems that serve tens of thousands of customers. Your work will have a strong impact on user experience, customer satisfaction, and company growth. We work in an agile environment utilizing modern tools such as AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible. The ideal candidate will be experienced, organized, positive, driven, and a team player.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical thought leadership in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering
• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for development, UAT, and production environments. Ability to leverage AI coding assistance (i.e. Copilot)
• Design, implement and maintain observability and monitoring solutions and monitor the system health, taking action to maintain up-time and performance SLAs, including on-call rotation
• Design, implement, and maintain continuous integration (CI) and delivery (CD) systems and advise development teams on code and implementation to increase application resiliency, operability, and best practices. AI assisted coding will be leveraged wherever possible.
• Management of containerized workloads. Deploying application servers hosting APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients.
• Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes clusters with advanced configuration and features
• Design, implement, and maintain Kafka clusters with advanced configuration and features
• Identify points of failure with ability to recommend and implement solutions in our infrastructure

What you’ll need to be successful

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) preferable
• 3+ years of relevant DevOps experience in a SaaS environment
• Expertise in distributed systems including load balancing, data storage, distributed messaging, and distributed databases
• Expertise in software configuration management (SCM) and tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar
• Expertise in cloud platforms, primarily AWS
• AWS PaaS tools: ECS, EKS, EC2, VPC, ELBs, S3, WAF, Parameter Store, SNS, SQS, SES, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and more
• Experience with automated deployment methodologies that support CI/CD/CM using Git, Jenkins or GitHub Actions
• Experience with managing infrastructure via IaC. Use of AI agent assistance (i.e. Copilot) a strong plus
• Experience with source control systems (e.g. GitHub, Bitbucket) and IaC collaboration tools
• Experience configuring and administering Kubernetes clusters with advanced features including non-standard networking, storage classes/claims, naming conventions, and multiple node groups
• Experience configuring and administering Kafka clusters including disaster recovery, data loss prevention techniques, and topic configuration sizing for variable loads
• Experience with Windows and Linux systems and tools
• Prior professional application development experience with a focus on SaaS applications and web development
• Knowledge of IP networking (TCP, UDP, firewalls, SSL)
• Knowledge of software engineering and design principles such as design patterns, architectural patterns, CAP Theorem, event-driven architecture
• Security-minded and adherence to the principle of least privilege
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills with structured problem-solving ability

What you’ll get in return

We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work, and believe that if you look after your people, they look after everything else!

• Integrated mental health & wellbeing support
• Vacation – starting at 3 weeks
• Wellness Days & Annual Giving Day
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• End of the year, company-wide shutdown for rest and recharge
• LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development

Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements?

Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We consider transferable and soft skills and may offer upskilling or developmental support. Our priority is to set people up for success.

Bring Your Whole Self to Work

Veriforce-Alcumus is proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team and an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.

What you can expect if you apply

• A response to your application within 15 working days
• An interview process consisting of:
• An initial discovery call with the recruiter
• A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
• Additional interview with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role