DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

About the Job

The DevOps Engineer will be a key member of the Personal Productivity Team within the Allianz AI Factory. The role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the CI/CD infrastructure, cloud environments, and automation frameworks that underpin the AI Factory's product delivery. The engineer will work closely with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and product owners to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure deployment of AI-driven solutions.

What you do

• Design, implement, and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for AI and software products.
• Develop and manage cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent frameworks. Operate and optimize cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) to support AI model training, deployment, and monitoring workloads.
• Build and manage containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (or equivalent orchestration platforms). Implement end-to-end monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform reliability and performance.
• Enforce DevSecOps practices, ensuring all infrastructure and pipelines meet Allianz security and regulatory standards. Partner with AI engineers, data scientists, and product teams to streamline development workflows and reduce time-to-deployment.
• Identify and automate repetitive operational tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort. Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and root-cause analysis for platform issues.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation for infrastructure, processes, and runbooks.

What you bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field with a minimum 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering role.
• Proven experience working in an AI/ML or data-intensive engineering environment is strongly preferred. Strong hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps. Proficiency in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP); multi-cloud experience is a plus.
• Expert-level knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (Helm, Kustomize). Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation. Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, agile setting.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or equivalent languages. Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK stack, or similar observability platforms. Advanced proficiency with Git and branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based development).
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), and vulnerability scanning. Strong problem-solving mindset with a proactive, ownership-driven attitude.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in an international, cross-functional team environment. Fluent in English (written and spoken); additional languages (German, Spanish) are an advantage.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience with MLOps platforms (MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Azure ML); Familiarity with AI/LLM deployment patterns (model serving, inference optimisation, A/B testing).; Relevant cloud or DevOps certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA, HashiCorp Terraform Associate). Experience in a regulated financial services or insurance environment.
• Machine learning knowledge is a strong advantage.

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz Technology

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform and innovate the infrastructure, applications and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization – from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.

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Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

To Recruitment Agencies

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

106048 | IT & Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent