Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

Exasol accelerates insights from the world’s data. Our in-memory technology and massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture are specifically designed for analytics, enabling businesses to turn complex data into actionable insights faster than ever before.

At Exasol, we are committed to pushing the boundaries of what is possible in data analytics, and we are looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help shape the future of data technology. Join our diverse, remote-first team where more than 30+ languages (and counting!) are spoken and every voice is valued. We believe in collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to building world-class data technology.

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer with strong experience across AWS and on-prem environments, ideally with a product engineering background. This role requires deep expertise in Linux, Python, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native engineering. The ideal candidate will work as a senior individual contributor, capable of independently building and maintaining scalable infrastructure, improving developer productivity, and ensuring platform reliability.

🚀 Why Exasol? Why Now?

At Exasol, we believe that speed is the key to turning data into impact. Our in-memory, massively parallel processing (MPP) database is one of the fastest in the world, built specifically for analytics at scale. We help organizations across industries—including financial services, retail, and the public sector—unlock insights from their data in seconds.

As we continue to scale globally, we are strengthening our engineering capabilities and investing in world-class infrastructure and DevOps practices. This is your opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud and infrastructure technologies while shaping the operational backbone of a high-performance analytics platform.

💼 Overview

The Lead DevOps Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure across AWS and on-prem environments. This role focuses on automation, platform reliability, CI/CD pipelines, and observability.

You will work closely with engineering, QA, and IT teams to improve infrastructure performance, optimize deployment workflows, and support high-availability systems.

🎯 Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Design and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, EKS/ECS, Lambda, Route53, and ALB/NLB
• Troubleshoot and support on-prem infrastructure including Proxmox, networking, storage systems, and bare-metal provisioning
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation

Configuration Management & Automation

• Implement configuration management using Ansible (preferred), Chef, or Puppet
• Develop automation scripts and tooling using Python, Bash, and other scripting languages
• Build reusable automation frameworks, playbooks, and internal tooling

CI/CD & Build Engineering

• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitHub Workflows, and ArgoCD
• Improve build systems, artifact packaging, and deployment workflows

Containerization & Orchestration

• Manage containerized environments using Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Helm, and Kustomize
• Support scalable microservices infrastructure and container deployments

Observability, Monitoring & Incident Management

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk
• Provide operational support and lead incident troubleshooting and resolution

Security & DevSecOps

• Implement DevSecOps best practices including IAM hardening, secret management, dependency scanning, and container security
• Work with tools such as HashiCorp Vault, AWS KMS, Trivy, or similar

Collaboration

• Work cross-functionally with engineering, QA, and IT teams
• Improve developer experience by modernizing infrastructure and automation tooling

✅ Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, preferably in product engineering environments
• Strong expertise in Linux administration (Rocky Linux, CentOS, or Ubuntu)
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, and automation scripting
• Hands-on experience with:
• AWS cloud services
• Kubernetes and containerization
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• CI/CD pipelines and build automation
• Monitoring and observability platforms
• Experience working with hybrid environments (cloud + on-prem infrastructure)
• Strong troubleshooting and incident resolution skills
• Ability to work independently and implement infrastructure design solutions

💡 Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with analytical database systems or distributed data platforms
• Knowledge of zero-trust security architectures
• Experience working in high-performance data or cloud infrastructure environments

📆 A Day in the Life of a Lead DevOps Engineer at Exasol

You start your day reviewing overnight alerts from monitoring dashboards and checking infrastructure health. After optimizing a Kubernetes deployment pipeline, you collaborate with developers to improve CI/CD workflows. Later, you troubleshoot a production incident and automate a fix using Python and Terraform, ensuring the system runs smoothly and reliably.

📈 What’s in it for You

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Flexible and remote-first working environment
• Monthly home office allowance and flexible working hours
• Opportunities to work on cutting-edge cloud infrastructure
• Continuous learning through internal knowledge sharing and technical sessions
• A collaborative global team where your contributions truly matter

🎯 Ready to Build the Future of Data Infrastructure?

If you’re passionate about automation, cloud platforms, and scalable infrastructure, and you want to work on technology that powers some of the world’s fastest analytics platforms, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and be part of Exasol.

About Exasol:

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Exasol is a proud equal opportunities employer. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive working environment and therefore base all our employment selection decisions, within all aspects of our business, on experience, skill, and integrity. We strongly encourage applicants from all walks to life to apply for our positions, irrespective of age, sex, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, etc.