About the role
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.