DevOps / Platform Engineer — Scientific Computing

Location: Remote within Europe, with regular presence in Bremen Direct Reports: None Working Model: Remote / hybrid. Regular time on-site in Bremen. Mission Own build, deployment and infrastructure for scientific software that runs in awkward places — customer premises, restricted laboratory networks, air-gapped sites, and our own cloud. The role combines conventional cloud platform engineering with the harder problem of shipping updatable software into environments we do not control. Responsibilities Pillar 1 Deployment and Delivery

• Own build, CI/CD and release for the platform across cloud and on-premise targets.
• Build and maintain installers and update paths that work in restricted and offline environments.
• Manage database migration and rollback paths for customer installations. Success Metrics and KPIs: release frequency, failed deployments, time to patch a customer site. Pillar 2 Infrastructure
• Run the Kubernetes and GitOps side of the platform.
• Own secrets management, access control and infrastructure-as-code.
• Implement monitoring and log aggregation across internal and customer environments.
• Integrate with Constructor's platform, identity and deployment tooling. Success Metrics and KPIs: uptime, mean time to detect, infrastructure reproducible from code. Pillar 3 Security and Governance
• Introduce static analysis and dependency and licence scanning into the pipeline.
• Own backup, recovery and continuity for the platform.
• Support audit and compliance requirements from funded research and customer contracts. Accountability: no single undocumented dependency on one person, including yourself. Requirements Experience
• Strong AWS or equivalent, Kubernetes, and configuration management such as Ansible, at production scale.
• Real experience of on-premise and offline deployment, not only cloud.
• CI/CD pipeline ownership end to end Skills & Competencies
• Autonomous and proactive. You have carried infrastructure alone.
• Willing to hand knowledge over rather than hold it.
• Interested in the product and the science, not only the pipeline.
• Clear communicator in English. Education & Languages
• Degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent practical track record.
• Fluent English. What This Role Is (and Is Not) This role IS
• Full ownership of infrastructure for a technically unusual product.
• A role where you finally get a team around you.
• Exposure to a broad modern stack. This role is NOT
• A pure cloud or pure on-premise role.
• A ticket-driven operations role.
• A role without contact with the product.