Job Description
Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

It's more than a job

In this IT role, you will manage, develop, and support the technology infrastructure that powers Kuehne+Nagel’s global systems and operations. This contribution is vital to making both special and ordinary moments in the lives of people a reality. In fact, your work enables our teams to deliver fresh fruit, time-sensitive healthcare products and much more to people all around the world. Working in IT at Kuehne+Nagel contributes to more than we imagine.

The main focus of this role is development-oriented design, implementation, and maintenance of DevOps systems that support development parties and release pipelines for our projects. We are passionate about automating routines. Day-to-day, you will engage directly with internal customers, developers, and numerous other teams to better optimize their workflows through automation and well-designed systems. You will be involved in deploying and promoting new services for internal clients. Observability and logging are of the highest importance to us.

How you create impact

  • Monitoring, logging, maintaining, and scaling Cloud infrastructures.
  • Collaborating with infrastructure and development teams to improve our products and processes.
  • Taking responsibility for building and testing pipelines that will be used for both development and production deployments.
  • Analyze existing pipelines in terms of functionality and performance and take decisions to improve them.
  • Promoting DevOps culture and mindset.

What we would like you to bring

  • Strong background in Linux with hands-on experience with configuration management tools.
  • Experience using version control frameworks such as Git and repository manager like GitLab.
  • Good understanding of CI/CD, DevOps and Agile methodologies.
  • Cloud experience in most standard services, such as private links, VPCs, ECS, EKS, S3.
  • Strong experience with container tooling and orchestration – Kubernetes is a strong plus.
  • Experience working with DevOps Toolset; HashiCorp stack (Vault, Terraform).
  • Writing skills to automate routine tasks (example: Python, Bash).
  • Excellent knowledge of English, both spoken and written.

What's in it for you

You will have a direct influence on the future of logistics and IT. Your colleagues are experts who shape the IT industry in Portugal and worldwide. We want you to feel comfortable in your working surroundings. Therefore, we are offering you flexible working hours and mobile working arrangements. We value teamwork, continuous learning, and diversity. Kuehne+Nagel offers you a custom-made career – through individual planning and supervisors who support and advise you in every way. You get supported by many work-life balance offerings and supplementary health insurance.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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