Senior DevOps Engineer - Germany

Job Description :

Senior DevOps Engineer Semantic Framework

Summary :

Senior DevOps Engineer to support the Semantic Framework Platform Product within the global digital infrastructure for R&D and Regulatory functions. The role focuses on deploying, maintaining, and enhancing the Ontology Management Framework (OMF) while ensuring scalable, secure, and automated platform operations across interconnected systems.

Deploy, operate, and maintain the Ontology Management Framework platform.

Manage end-to-end DevOps activities including infrastructure provisioning, platform maintenance, monitoring and deployment automation.

Design and implement scalable infrastructure as code (IaC) solution using Lead migration activities from GitLab repositories and pipelines to GitHub Actions and associated DevOps resources.

Implement and manage containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps practices with ArgoCD.

Ensure secure platform integration with enterprise authentication and authorization systems such as Keycloak.

Monitor platform health, observability, performance, and cost optimization using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Collaborate with semantic web experts, developers, architects, and product owners to support ontology lifecycle management and semantic data enablement.

Ensure platform stability, scalability, security compliance, and alignment with evolving business and operational requirements.

Work effectively within global agile teams and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across DevOps and platform engineering processes.

Primary Skills(Must Have):-

Cloud Platforms:

Strong hands-on experience in AWS (Azure is a plus)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

Terraform, Ansible

CI/CD & DevOps Tooling:

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

CI/CD Pipeline design and migration expertise

Containerization & Orchestration:

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

GitOps (ArgoCD)

Security & Identity:

Keycloak or similar IAM tools

Observability & Monitoring:

Prometheus

Grafana

Programming/Scripting:

Python and/or Java

Agile delivery:

Experience working in International Agile/Scrum environments

Secondary Skills (Good to Have):

Ontology Management Framework (OMF) knowledge

Semantic Web technologies:

RDF, OWL

Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

Graph Databases:

Virtuoso, Fuseki, Neo4j

Query Languages:

SPARQL, Cypher

Certifications (Nice to have)

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer / Solutions Architect

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Developer (CKAD)

Terraform Associate Certification

Certified DevSecOps / Security certifications (nice to have)