Senior DevOps Engineer

About Deutsche Telekom Services Europe Romania

In Romania, Deutsche Telekom has set up a Shared Service Center in Bucharest & Timisoara - Deutsche Telekom Services Europe Romania (DTSE Romania), which delivers support function services such as HR, Accounting, Reporting and Finance, as well as IT support services for these lines of business, for the whole European Deutsche Telekom footprint since July 2013.

We Are Focused On

• the best customer experiences
• delivering high quality services
• great working conditions
• growing with innovations
• continuously improving competitiveness through digitalization

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work as part of a dedicated DevOps team designing, maintaining, and enhancing cloud-native infrastructure that supports data science workloads. You’ll collaborate with multiple development teams with deploying and maintaining time-series forecasting and generative AI applications. The role focuses on building reliable, secure, and observable platform in GCP using Kubernetes, IaC, and automated CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Working in a distributed DevOps team across multiple locations using agile practices
• Supporting the design and operation of core infrastructure on GCP for data science and Python-based ML/AI workloads
• Maintaining and improving Kubernetes environments with Helm and ArgoCD
• Developing and reviewing Terraform modules and cloud configurations
• Managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines across applications, infrastructure, and ML projects
• Implementing and optimizing autoscaling strategies for workloads and clusters
• Ensuring robust observability across monitoring, logging, and tracing using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo
• Troubleshooting issues across cloud, container, networking, and application layers
• Enhancing platform reliability, cost efficiency, and developer experience
• Educating developers and data scientists on best practices and relevant parts of the technology stack

Experience And Skills

• Fluent English; German is a plus
• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in DevOps or related roles
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Strong expertise with at least one major cloud provider (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure acceptable)
• Experience in any public cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) - GCP is preferred
• Extensive experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm charts, and container-based production systems
• Understanding basic security concepts and helping to identify and mitigate common vulnerabilities
• Solid hands-on proficiency with Terraform, Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitLab CI
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux administration, shell scripting, and practical networking fundamentals
• Experience with monitoring and observability solutions (Grafana stack; ELK also relevant)
• Familiarity with autoscaling concepts (HPA/VPA, KEDA, cluster autoscaler)
• Experience with relational and document databases, such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB, is a plus

DTSE-RO is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decision at DTSE-RO are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, with no regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.

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