<div class="show-more-less-html__markup show-more-less-html__markup--clamp-after-5 relative overflow-hidden"> <p>Cloud Engineer — Kubernetes / Distributed Systems / AI Platform</p><p><strong>Remote anywhere in Germany | HQ in NRW | Work from anywhere for up to 180 days per year </strong></p><p><br/></p><p>This is not a “keep the lights on” DevOps role...</p><p><br/></p><p>You’ll be part of the team responsible for running and operating a large-scale AI platform used in complex customer environments — including highly customised on-premise infrastructure deployments.</p><p><br/></p><p>The challenge here isn’t just Kubernetes.</p><p>It’s making a highly distributed, containerised system reliably run in environments you don’t fully control.</p><p><br/></p><p>That means troubleshooting under pressure, improving deployment processes, working directly with customer-side infrastructure teams, and owning the operational reality of a production AI platform end-to-end.</p><p><br/></p><p>You’ll be working on systems running more than 1,000 containers in production across a large microservice architecture, helping improve everything from CI/CD pipelines and observability to runtime stability and deployment reliability.</p><p><br/></p><p>This role is heavily focused on runtime operations, incident handling, and delivery infrastructure — not feature development.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>The Engineering Muscle You Bring</strong></p><ul><li>Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift</li><li>Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservice architectures</li><li>Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Ansible, or ArgoCD</li><li>Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, or Instana</li><li>Knowledge of technologies like Redis, Postgres, MariaDB, Kafka, Elastic, or Minio</li><li>Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills</li><li>Hands-on engineering mindset with a strong sense of ownership</li><li>Fluent German and English communication skills</li></ul><p><br/></p><p><strong>Why This Role Appeals to People Who Like Complexity</strong></p><ul><li>Large-scale production systems with 1,000+ containers running live</li><li>Complex Kubernetes and OpenShift environments</li><li>Real operational ownership instead of pure maintenance work</li><li>Challenging on-premise customer deployments</li><li>Exposure to modern AI platforms and distributed architectures</li><li>High-impact work with lots of technical depth and learning potential</li></ul><p><br/></p><p><strong>Khalifa@thryvetalent.com</strong></p> </div>