Senior DevOps Engineer – Beats & Bytes

About the role

Join the Beats & Bytes (B3S) team at Universal Music Germany as a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will act as the technical backbone for autonomous product teams, turning internal platforms into reliable, secure products that enable rapid software delivery for artists and fans.

Key responsibilities

• Treat internal platforms as products, continuously improving the developer experience for product‑team customers.
• Design reusable, cost‑effective platform solutions that balance performance and architectural requirements.
• Guide teams on container usage, cloud‑native architecture, and DevOps best practices.
• Document technical decisions, share knowledge, and eliminate single points of failure.
• Enhance observability and monitoring to meet SLAs and SLOs.
• Integrate security controls, maintain platform health, and support vulnerability remediation.
• Facilitate incident response, conduct root‑cause analyses, and drive sustainable follow‑up actions.

Required profile

• Strong experience delivering platform services in a fast‑moving, product‑centric environment.
• Ability to collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Proactive mindset focused on reducing operational complexity for developers.

Required skills

• Containers and container orchestration
• Cloud‑native architecture principles
• DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Observability and monitoring solutions
• Security integration and vulnerability management
• Incident response and root‑cause analysis