Senior DevOps Engineer (Berlin, hybrid)

Senior DevOps Engineer (Berlin, hybrid) LocationBerlinEmployment TypeFull timeDepartmentEngineeringA little about usAI-native design: End-to-end workflows where a single prompt produces product shoots, social video, labels and full campaigns without switching toolsMillions of users: Built a large user base since 2022, with a clear product bet on where design is heading nextDiverse team: 120+ people from 30+ countries, building one product togetherProduct-led: Engineers, product managers, and designers shape what Kittl becomesStrong backing: Over $45M raised from investors who've also backed Slack, Dropbox, and FigmaLearn more: www.kittl.com/careerYour role at KittlAs a Senior DevOps Engineer on Kittl’s Platform team, you will help build and evolve the reliable, secure, and cost-efficient foundation that enables our product teams to ship quickly in an AI-driven environment. You will work across our cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, observability, and platform security to improve release confidence and operational excellence.In this role, you will partner closely with engineers across backend, frontend, data, and AI teams to remove operational bottlenecks, improve developer workflows, and standardize how services are built, deployed, and operated. This is a hands-on role with clear impact, directly contributing to outcomes such as more reliable CI pipelines, faster incident detection, and improved infrastructure cost visibility.What you'll doImprove CI reliability & developer productivity: Reduce flaky pipelines and shorten feedback loops across CI/CD systems to improve developer experience and delivery speedStrengthen observability & incident readiness: Build actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for key user journeys to help teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues fasterOperate and evolve our Kubernetes platform: Manage and improve our AWS EKS environment, ensuring safe deployments, runtime reliability, and scalable infrastructureDrive infrastructure automation: Expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Pulumi and TypeScript; build reusable platform primitives and self-service patterns for engineering teamsImprove security & governance: Strengthen access management, secrets handling, and secure defaults across infrastructure and engineering workflowsOptimize infrastructure costs: Identify major cost drivers such as data transfer, compute usage, and logging; improve cost visibility and ownership across teamsWhat you’ll needKubernetes & cloud expertise: At least 5 years production experience running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and troubleshooting distributed systemsCI/CD expertise: Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar) and a track record of improving pipeline reliabilityInfrastructure as Code: Experience with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools and building reusable infrastructure patternsObservability knowledge: Practical experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring tools such as GrafanaSecurity mindset: Understanding of IAM, access control, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and secure operational practicesCollaborative approach: Comfortable working cross-functionally and driving technical initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomesInterview processRecruiter interview (30 min)Technical interview I (60 min)Technical interview II (60 min)Interview with CTO (30 min) & cross-functional team interview (30 min)Bar raiser interview with Head of Data (45 min)Our core tech stackAWS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Docker, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Redis, TypeScript/Node.jsWe are looking for someoneExceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quoWho takes extreme ownership & gets things doneWho goes above and beyond in their roleWho is deeply passionate about what they doBenefitsMaximise your impact: No matter if you’re leading a team or you stand out by your domain expertise - all we care about is supporting you to...