StepStone

ista SE

  • Essen
  • Post Date: 12. September 2024
Job Description
Senior DevOps Platform Engineer (m/f/d)
IT / Essen (Headoffice) hybrid / full-time / iSE02456

Welcome to ista

At ista, we support property owners and managers in making their buildings fit for the future and kind to the planet. That includes tracking and billing energy consumption in a way that's easy to grasp, to help save energy and cut CO₂ emissions. With over 6,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we're committed to making it happen. Join us and help shape tomorrow, secure in the knowledge that you're part of a successful company that also offers you the flexibility of agile working practices.

Everyone is welcome at ista, regardless of age, gender, background, sexual orientation, religion or disabilities. We're proud to be part of a diverse team. Fostering a culture of team spirit and togetherness, we are always there for one another. We set great store by ensuring a healthy work-life balance for our people. Plus, we offer each and every employee the opportunity to pursue further training and personal development.


  • You will work in an agile squad in the submetering platform tribe to develop and deliver the internal development platform to enable all other squads at ista
  • You will accompany software development squads on their journey to the cloud with consulting and mentoring on the CI / CD process and enable them to develop and maintain cloud-native DevOps operating models ("you build it, you run it") with the lowest possible ops overhead and fast time-to-market
  • You design the overall technical architecture for our DevOps platform together with the squad
  • You stay up to date with new trends on the market, select new technologies and integrate them into our modern CI/CD process to help the squads to continuously improve quality, security, speed and maintainability
  • You have solid understanding of the concept of Platform Engineering, and are able to articulate the vision to other squad
  • In your chapter "DevOps Engineering", you collaborate on the strategy and vision for our transformation of DevOps and cloud and share impulses and best practices with your peers

  • Hands-on mentality and an eye for details – without losing sight of the big picture. Drive for complexity reduction
  • Excellent communication skills in English (proficiency in German is a bonus) and the ability to handle different squads' and stakeholders' requirements
  • Proven skills with CI tools (GitLab and GitLab CI), continuous deployment tools (Argo CD) and cloud orchestration with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
  • Experience with hyperscaler clouds (e.g. Azure) and the associated infrastructure and PaaS / CaaS product suite (e.g. networking, serverless functions, app services, managed Kubernetes, databases)
  • Very good knowledge of the container ecosystem (Docker), container orchestrators (Kubernetes) and cluster fleeting technologies (e.g. Crossplane)
  • You have a solid understanding of the concept of platform engineering, and are able to articulate the vision to other squads
  • You can code (which language is not important)

  • Experience strong commitment: Join an agile transformation actively promoted by our CEO
  • Do the right thing with purpose: Our services save CO₂ and protect the environment – we work for a sustainable world of tomorrow!
  • Enjoy many benefits: Look forward to an attractive salary, 30 days of vacation per year, flexible working hours in a modern office building, as well as the opportunity to work remotely
  • Stay curious and develop yourself further: Standing still is not an option for us, which is why we support you in every aspect of your development – take advantage of our innovative training program, for example with courses from the online universities Udacity and Coursera or free training and certification from Microsoft ESI. Lots of learning opportunities are waiting for you!
  • Secure a bright future for yourself: With us, a solid international medium-sized company meets a start-up atmosphere – our path offers you long-term and excellent career options
  • Experience a working environment full of trust: We all share the same goals and pull together
  • Have fun in a motivated team: We organize cross-team coding dojos and hackathons, working-out-loud sessions, an international soccer cup and "Ice cream for everyone"-days in the summer – we always come up with something new, be curious!
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