Platform / DevOps Engineers

Job description

Role Summary

Technical implementation role focused on building, automating, operating, and scaling the Renovate platform across a very large GitLab landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and deploy the self-hosted Renovate environment

• Build automated repository discovery and onboarding processes via GitLab APIs

• Create and maintain central configuration presets and repository-level extensions

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and reporting dashboards

• Optimize performance, scalability, caching, and rate-limit handling

• Integrate artifact repositories and secure credential stores

• Produce operational documentation and support development teams during rollout

• Ensure stable operation across thousands of repositories

Required Skills:

• Proven experience as DevOps, Platform, or Automation Engineer

• Strong GitLab CI/CD and GitLab API expertise

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container platforms

• Infrastructure-as-Code knowledge (e.g. OpenTofu, Helm)

• Scripting/programming skills (Bash, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript)

• Experience with observability platforms, ideally New Relic

• Knowledge of Vault, secrets management, and package/container registries

• Practical Renovate experience

• Strong automation mindset and independent working style

Project Details

· Start: asap

· End: 15 December 2026 (including option for extension)

· Remote assignment

· German client in the energy sector

· Agile setup

Language: English