Lead DevOps Engineer SaaS Platform & Cloud

Shape the Future of Financial Compliance

At INFORM's Risk & Fraud Division, we develop and operate a SaaS solution that helps organizations across Europe meet Anti‑Money Laundering (AML) requirements through reliable and efficient Customer Watchlist Screening.
As a Lead Dev Ops Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our product. Working in a cross‑functional product team, you'll drive architectural decisions, improve platform reliability, and help build scalable cloud‑native services that deliver real value to our customers.

• Take technical ownership of our Customer Watchlist Screening platform and actively shape its future development.
• Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure cloud‑native services - contributing hands‑on across the full stack where needed.
• Ensure stable operations, high availability, and strong observability across our platform.
• Drive continuous improvements in deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation, and platform efficiency at scale.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management and System Architecture to drive the development of new features and services.
• Guide and mentor fellow engineers, fostering engineering excellence and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Work with platform, cloud, and authentication teams to leverage shared services and build on a scalable infrastructure.

• Proven Dev Ops Expertise: 5+ years of hands‑on experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or Platform Engineering, building and operating scalable, production‑grade SaaS systems.
• Fullstack Engineering Mindset: Strong experience across the full development lifecycle - from backend services to cloud infrastructure, with the ability to contribute hands‑on where needed.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to take ownership of architecture decisions, service design, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization in a team context.
• Cloud‑Native & Platform Thinking: Deep understanding of modern cloud‑native architectures, containerization, and operating distributed systems in production.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to take ownership of architecture decisions, service design, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization in a team context.
• Hands‑on Mentality: Comfortable switching between development, infrastructure, and operations topics.
• Agile
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Experience working in cross‑functional product teams with a pragmatic, solution‑oriented mindset.
• Communication & Ownership: Strong communication skills and the ability to proactively drive technical topics with Product, Architecture, and Platform teams.

• Backend Development: Python (Flask), asynchronous programming, APIs and service integration
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS), Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Container Platform: Kubernetes, Helm, Flux, KEDA
• Observability & Reliability: Grafana, Prometheus, monitoring and alerting concepts
• CI/CD & Automation: Git Hub Actions, automated testing and deployment pipelines
• Frontend (nice to have): Type Script (e.g. Vue.js / Vite)
• Additional (optional): Exposure to Java‑based services

• Flexible working hours, hybrid work, workation, sabbatical
• Childcare subsidy and other family‑friendly benefits
• Urban Sports Club membership and other health/sports offers e.g. bike leasing
• Long‑term development prospects with a wide range of further training opportunities
• Varied, healthy and subsidized lunch in our canteen
• Large INFORM summer party, company and team events as well as a Christmas party