Sr. DevOps (m/w/d)

About us

Join bonify, Germany’s leading platform for credit scoring and financial management. We are on the mission to revolutionize the FinTech industry and make the credit score and financial data available and transparent for our users. We are seeking a talented Sr. DevOps to join our dynamic team in Berlin.

Founded in 2015 by industry leaders from McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has gathered substantial investment from renowned international venture capital firms such as Mosaic Ventures and Ribbit Capital, as well as visionary entrepreneurs including the founders of Zalando and Raisin. Now bonify is ready for the next step: thanks to our acquisition by SCHUFA, we are ready for further advancement, fresh ideas and limitless growth.

Your tasks

• Design, implement, and maintain Jenkins/Jenkinsfile-based multibranch pipelines (or equivalent Bitbicket ) for automated building, testing, and deployment of microservices, web applications.
• Collaborate with developers to integrate unit/integration tests, code quality checks (e.g., SonarQube), and security scanning into pipelines.
  Author and maintain Terraform (or CDK) modules for provisioning AWS resources (VPCs, EC2/EKS, RDS/DocumentDB, S3 buckets, IAM policies, NLBs, etc.).
• Manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS), configure internal/external load balancers, and optimize resource allocation.
• Implement secret management (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault) and ensure secure handling of credentials/configurations.
• Develop and maintain monitoring dashboards and alerts using AWS CloudWatch (logs, metrics, and alarms), Prometheus & Grafana, or ELK Stack, Fluentd/Fluent Bit.
• Automate vulnerability scans (e.g., container scanning, OS patching), ensure IAM least privilege, and perform periodic security audits.
• Maintain compliance with GDPR and other relevant data protection regulations.

Requirements

• 5 + years in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering role.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions).
• Hands-on with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (preferred) or CDK
• Strong AWS experience: VPC, EC2/EKS, RDS/DocumentDB, NLB/ALB, CloudWatch, Serverless stack.
• Proficient in scripting languages (Bash, Python, or similar) for automation tasks.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems administration (Ubuntu, CentOS, or Amazon Linux).
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals: subnets, routing tables, security groups, NACLs, load balancing.
• Knowledge on Monitoring/logging tools: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or equivalent
• Experience with AWS Security Hub, DORA compliance, or penetration testing tools.
• Secret Management: Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or similar.

Nice to have

• Security & Compliance: Experience with AWS Security Hub, CIS compliance, or penetration testing tools.
• Secret Management: Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or similar.
• Automation Frameworks: Experience writing Ansible playbooks or Chef/Puppet manifests. Cloud Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or similar.

What we offer

As part of the bonify team, you'll have:

• The opportunity to take ownership from day one
• The chance to thrive in a dynamic and flexible startup environment.
• Access to extensive coaching and training programs through our personal development budget
• 30 vacation days
• 1:1 sessions and mental health platform access
• Subsidies for BVG and UrbanSportsClub
• 1:1 language classes in both German and English.