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Embark on a pivotal role at ACCURIDS, a trailblazing company revolutionizing pharmaceutical data management. This is a prime opportunity for a skilled DevOps/Platform Engineer to significantly impact a growth-driven environment, contributing to the core infrastructure of a company that accelerates life-science innovation. If you're eager to scale AWS infrastructure, enhance platform automation, and drive security operations within a collaborative, start-up-like setting, ACCURIDS offers a dynamic platform for your expertise to shine.
Principal DevOps Engineer
Join ACCURIDS and help shape the future of pharmaceutical data! At ACCURIDS, we're building the data backbone behind life-science innovation — a system that identifies, links, and standardizes critical enterprise data in compliance with global standards such as ISO IDMP. We help global life-science companies launch products faster, more safely, and with better patient outcomes.
At ACCURIDS, you’ll join a collaborative, growth-driven environment where your work makes a real impact from day one.
How You'll Make an Impact:
- Customer Installations: Set up, maintain, and troubleshoot customer installations, managing both high-standard SaaS environments and restrictive customer on-premise deployments.
- AWS Infrastructure: Operate and scale our core AWS infrastructure, managing multi-account environments, EKS, RDS, S3, networking, and IAM.
- Product Operations: Support our development team with product operations, maintaining and extending GitLab CI/CD pipelines, driving declarative GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Kargo), and managing incident response.
- SaaS Platform Development: Develop the Accurids SaaS platform stack, focusing on enhancing platform automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), identity management, and advanced observability.
- Security Operations: Drive our security operations, building out our compliance posture through log reviews, vulnerability scanning, active monitoring, alerting, and supporting ISO 27001 requirements.
- Operational Resilience: Ensure operational resilience and continuity, transitioning our infrastructure from a single-point-of-failure risk to a robust, well-documented architecture.
What Helps You Succeed:
- Adaptability & Continuous Learning: A strong engineering mindset with a proven ability to rapidly learn new tools, architectures, and methodologies.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Foundation: 3–5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering, with production exposure to a major cloud provider (AWS preferred, Azure/GCP acceptable).
- Containerization Concepts: Solid foundational knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI).
- Modern Operations: Familiarity with—or a strong desire to learn—Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and declarative GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Kargo).
- Observability & Security Awareness: Familiarity with cloud security tooling and monitoring/observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch). Experience building a security posture is a strong plus.
- Core Competencies: Business fluency in English and openness to integrating AI-assisted tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT). Prior experience with Elasticsearch, Keycloak, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, or ISO 27001 is a bonus.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Hybrid Work Model: Flexible hybrid arrangements from our Cologne office.
- Generous Vacation: 30 days of paid vacation.
- Competitive Salary: A salary package aligned with your experience and impact.
- Personal Growth: Flexible budget for training, conferences, or learning opportunities.
- Choose Your Perk: Subsidized Urban Sports Club membership or a City Plus Card with a €50 monthly allowance.
- Empowerment & Ownership: Take responsibility and shape your role.
- Modern Work Setup: Choose your preferred system (Windows, Linux, or Mac).
- Collaborative Culture: A dynamic, start-up-like environment valuing flexibility, trust, and innovation.
Not Ticking Every Box?
We encourage you to apply anyway! We value potential, curiosity, and motivation to learn. ACCURIDS is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team, and we especially encourage applications from women and individuals from underrepresented backgrounds in tech, science, and data.
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