About Data4Life
At Data4Life, we empower researchers and public-health partners by building secure, compliant, and high-impact digital solutions. As we expand our Health Evidence solutions and researcher-focused developer tooling, we seek a DevOps Engineer with strong Infrastructure as Code development skills and cloud infrastructure experience.
Your Future Role
- Work in a collaborative and supportive manner with engineers and researchers to enable smooth deployments, handovers, and operational reliability.
- Take ownership of our Kubernetes-based Application Tier and drive its evolution across Azure and hybrid environments.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions.
- Improve and automate platform workflows, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and secrets management to empower internal and external developers.
- Help shape the long-term cloud architecture for research workloads, including scale-out strategies, secure data paths, and HPC integrations.
- Proactively explore and evaluate new technologies that support research computing, high-performance, and reproducible system design.
- Contribute to architectural discussions, documentation, and cross-team decision making around networking, IAM, security boundaries, and service architecture.
What You Need to Succeed
- You have experience developing and operating Kubernetes-based systems - ideally in managed environments like AKS, EKS, or GKE.
- You have experience with at least one modern programming language - with a willingness to learn Go, and shell scripting for Linux systems.
- You have hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform, plus familiarity with Helm, GitHub Actions, and GitHub runners.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking (VNet/VPC design, private endpoints, DNS, ingress controllers, TLS, routing).
- You are familiar with Docker, containerized workloads, PostgreSQL, object storage, and monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana or ELK).
- You are a team player and motivated to explore and evaluate new technologies.
- Strong communication skills in English (at least C1).
- You are comfortable working in research-driven and experimental environments.
Why You Will Love Working with Us
- High level of personal responsibility and creative freedom
- Work on socially impactful projects in the healthcare sector
- Collaboration with leading partners from research, technology, and healthcare
- A diverse, interdisciplinary, and international team working across three locations (Potsdam, Berlin, and Singapore)
- Flexible working models with the option to work from home
- Permanent employment contract with 30 days of vacation
- Attractive employee benefits, e.g. private supplementary health insurance, public transport ticket