DevOps Engineer Cloud & Kubernetes (Freelance possible)

Tasks and responsibilities: For a research environment focusing on earth observation and large-scale data platforms, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer to help build a reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure. The operations involve data distribution, on-demand image processing, and Big Data analytics on datasets rapidly growing from terabytes to petabytes. You will support DevOps and project-related questions and take shared responsibility with the team for the operational infrastructure. You will handle tickets from internal projects, with a focus on configuration as code and infrastructure as code. Additionally, you will handle the rollout and support of new components within the software stack and in public cloud environments. You will analyze complex incidents through monitoring, logging, and metrics, and develop proposals to improve the efficiency and stability of the environment. Over time, you will take ownership of specific components. In case of blocking issues, you will ensure correct internal or external escalation. Furthermore, you will implement security best practices across the entire infrastructure and work closely with architects and engineers. The infrastructure includes Linux-native environments such as CentOS, RedHat, and Alma Linux, virtualization and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, VMware, and OpenStack, and CI/CD and automation tooling such as Terraform, ArgoCD, Jenkins, and Packer. Experience with migration trajectories, Kubernetes...