Team Lead - DevOps (m​/f​/d

Do you enjoy building and operating highly scalable, reliable cloud platforms that power thousands of fitness studios? Are you passionate about Linux, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure? Do you thrive when guiding teams through complex technical challenges and building world‑class engineering cultures? Then we would like to welcome you as Team Lead (m/f/d) to our growing international team in Berlin! In this role, you'll balance hands‑on engineering with people leadership, spending roughly half of your time designing and operating our modern GCP infrastructure and the other half mentoring and empowering a high‑performing Cloud Infrastructure team.

• Team Leadership
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  Guide and mentor the Cloud Infrastructure team (4 people) with full disciplinary responsibility, fostering a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Platform Architecture
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  Work hands‑on with the team on designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure on GCP using modern Dev Ops practices.
• Infrastructure Automation
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  Drive infrastructure‑as‑code initiatives and CI/CD improvements using Terraform, Helm, Git Hub Actions, and related tooling to reduce toil and improve velocity.
• Cross Team Collaboration
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  Partner with Software Engineering teams and the SRE team, enabling them to build and operate reliable services while advocating for infrastructure needs.
• Technical Innovation
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  Contribute to architectural decisions, continuously challenge existing solutions, and stay current with cloud technologies to improve scalability and resilience.
• Problem Solving
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  Take on diverse technical problems and work on tasks that enable continuous learning and technical growth.
• Security Hardening
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  Implement robust measures to protect our cloud environment and deployment platforms.

• Leadership Experience
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  At least 1 year as Team Lead or Engineering Manager with full disciplinary responsibility for a software engineering team.
• Cloud & Dev Ops Expertise
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  Several years of extensive experience in Systems Engineering or Dev Ops, with deep technical focus on Linux, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud providers (preferably GCP).
• Infrastructure as Code
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  Solid expertise with Terraform and experience managing containerized workloads at scale.
• Observability & Monitoring
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  Familiarity with monitoring and observability stacks such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Scripting & Automating
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  Effective scripting and automation using Python or Bash;
  Go or Java experience is a significant advantage.
• Technical Leadership
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  Proactive problem solver with a strong sense of ownership, technical judgment, and the ability to mentor and guide other engineers.
• Hands‑On Mindset
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  Desire to stay deeply technical while leading people, not transitioning into pure management.

• Integration
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  Gain a deep understanding of the EGYM ecosystem and how the different teams within the software engineering organization collaborate.
• Mastery
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  Become fully comfortable with our cloud infrastructure, tooling, and automation workflows.
• Leadership
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  Establish yourself as a trusted technical and people leader within the Cloud Infrastructure team.
• Mentorship
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  Actively mentor engineers, provide constructive feedback, and support their professional growth.
• Modern Tech Stack & AI Evolution
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  Explore our Tech Radar to see our stack and join us in building an AI‑centric, iterative, and incremental product culture where AI is a core accelerator of our development lifecycle.
• Learning Time
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  Use 10% of your time on learning topics of your choice (conferences, hackathons, internal and external events, videos, books or innovation projects).
• Choose Your Equipment
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  Use state‑of‑the‑art laptops (MacOS, Linux, Windows, or your preferred distro).
• International Team
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  Join our diverse and international team to collaborate with talented professionals from around the world.
• Work‑Life Balance
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  Benefit from flexible working hours, home office possibilities, and 30 days of vacation per year.
• Fit & Healthy
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  Train for free with EGYM Wellpass across thousands of sports and health facilities in Germany or use our in‑house gym with EGYM products.
• Flex Budget
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  Use €60 per month flexibly for public transportation and a meal subsidy.
• Mentoring Program
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  Exchange knowledge and grow together across teams and locations through our self‑organized mentoring platform.
• Discounts
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  Access a variety of great discounted offers, from fashion to leisure, through our employee benefits portal.
• Bike Leasing
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  Stay active and use our leasing bike offer for your way to work or in your spare time.