Hi there!
Are you eager to learn new things and implement your own ideas while working with an international and passionate team of professionals?
At Data4Life, we empower researchers and public-health partners by building secure, compliant, and high-impact digital solutions. As we expand our Health Evidence solutions and researcher-focused developer tooling—we seek a DevOps Engineer with strong Infrastructure as Code development skills and cloud infrastructure experience.
You will work closely with engineering, researcher, project, and product teams to build, integrate, and evolve our Kubernetes-based Application Tier that enables advancing medical and public-health research and translation applications.
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Research Enablement team. This is a full time position located in Berlin/Potsdam, with a possibility for hybrid work.
Your future role
* Work in a collaborative and supportive manner with engineers and researchers to enable smooth deployments, handovers, and operational reliability
* Take ownership of our Kubernetes-based Application Tier and drive its evolution across Azure and hybrid environments
* Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions.
* Improve and automate platform workflows, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and secrets management to empower internal and external developers
* Help shape the long-term cloud architecture for research workloads, including scale-out strategies, secure data paths, and HPC integrations
* Proactively explore and evaluate new technologies that support research computing, high-performance, and reproducible system design.
* Contribute to architectural discussions, documentation, and cross-team decision making around networking, IAM, security boundaries, and service architecture
What you need to succeed
* Comfortable working in research-driven & experimental environments
* Experience operating Kubernetes-based systems - ideally in managed environments like AKS, EKS, or GKE.
* Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform, plus familiarity with Helm, GitHub Actions, and GitHub runners
* Strong understanding of cloud networking (VNet/VPC design, private endpoints, DNS, ingress controllers, TLS, routing).
* Experience with Linux systems, shell scripting, and at least one modern programming language - with a willingness to learn Go
* Familiar with Docker, containerized workloads, PostgreSQL, object storage, and monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana or ELK)
* Team player and motivated to explore and evaluate new technologies
* Strong communication skills in English (at least C1)
Why you will love working with us
* Nonprofit work with a clear purpose: Make the world a healthier place. With us, you will find a fulfilling and meaningful task in a nonprofit environment that will advance our society.
* A diverse and international team of professionals working together at 3 locations (Potsdam, Berlin and Singapore).
* Real work life balance with flexible working hours, 30 days of paid vacation, and the possibility for mobile work.
* Support in the areas of private healthcare and sustainable mobility.
* Employee driven initiatives like the climate initiative and the DEI (diversity, equity & inclusion) initiative.
Good to know
* We especially welcome applicants from the LGBTQI+ community, people with a migration background, people of color, and individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses to the team.
* If you need support or special assistance during the application or interview process due to a disability, please feel free to let us know and we are happy to accommodate you as much as possible.
* This position offers an unlimited contract.
* In this position you will be working from our Berlin/Potsdam office.
* Occasional travel to customer and partner locations is required annually.
* Please enclose your complete documents (CV, letter of motivation, Git portfolio, salary expectations and earliest possible starting date) with your application.
About us
Data4Life is a nonprofit digital health organization headquartered in Potsdam supported by the Hasso Plattner Foundation, with additional locations in Berlin and Singapore. We make health data from diverse sources accessible, standardized, and secure - enabling responsible research to improve public health and personalized medicine. Our digital solutions support international standards such as FHIR and OMOP, and enable scalable digital research infrastructures with a strong focus on data sovereignty and transparency. We work with university hospitals and global research institutions to unlock the full potential of health data. In collaboration with Charité and Mount Sinai Health System, we are supporting cross-border use cases based on millions of patient records. As a nonprofit, we prioritize social impact, data ethics, and open collaboration.
We care about Diversity: Many different lives, careers, and development paths lead to Data4Life. We welcome experts from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to our international team, offering everyone equal opportunities to be themselves and develop to the best of their abilities. Diversity, equality, and inclusion are not just nice words at Data4Life – we put them into practice in all of our activities and projects, striving to incorporate them in our everyday lives. For this reason, we signed the Charta der Vielfalt (Diversity Charter) in 2022.