DevOps Engineer – Services Management (Keycloak & OpenLDAP)

We are actively seeking a dedicated and experienced DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes operations and Ansible automation. This role will have a specific focus on Keycloak & OpenLDAP. The ideal candidate will be proactive, innovative, and have a deep understanding of cloud-native service management. Moreover, the ideal candidate likes to dig through the vast expanse of open source documentation to find the best solution.

Your responsibilities:

• Deploy, configure, maintain and manage Keycloak & OpenLDAP services.
• Design and implement Ansible playbooks and roles for automation, ensuring seamless integration and high availability of services.
• Stay updated with the latest in Kubernetes and Ansible developments, ensuring that our operations remain cutting-edge.
• Monitor system health, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Respond promptly to updates, major incidents, and service disruptions, even outside of regular business hours.
• Implement and maintain security best practices for all managed services.
• Continuously improve our ansible pipelines.
• Provide technical support and guidance to other teams as necessary.

We offer:

• Competitive salary.
• Flexibility: Remote or in the office – you decide how and where you work, as long as it’s aligned with your project and your team
• OffProject Time – The majority of your time is spent working on client projects. Approximately 25% of your working time is available for further education, community engagement, personal development or internal initiatives.
• You get a budget for hardware, choose your favorites – private use included
• In addition to flexible, trust-based working hours, you have 30 days of vacation, special leave addition, you can take a sabbatical.
• You will find yourself in an environment that takes family friendliness, trust, freedom, knowledge sharing, co-determination and error culture really seriously.

Your profile

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Cloud Native Service Management.
• Design and implement Ansible playbooks and roles for automation, ensuring seamless integration and high availability of services.
• Willingness to respond to updates and major incidents outside of normal business hours.
• Experience with Grafana Observability Stack (Grafana, Grafana Agent, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, k6), OnlyOffice Document Server, NATS, DNS, ClamAV or postfix, Trivy will be considered a significant advantage.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A team player with a proactive attitude and a passion for continuous learning.

Our company

ownCloud is the leading open source file collaboration software designed and built to give businesses and individuals control over their data. With a team of more than 70 people, we develop the ownCloud server, the sync clients, our mobile apps and the web interface to enable secure and effective file collaboration across companies, organizations, administrations, institutions and families. We also implement customized solutions for enterprises and directly manage and maintain ownCloud instances. With over 200 million users worldwide and growing, ownCloud is the market-leading open source software for content collaboration.

Outlines

• Type: Fulltime (40h)/Permanent
• Location of work: Nuremberg or remote in Germany

Are you interested?

Please send your resume and references to and tell us why you’d like to work for ownCloud! Please state your expectations regarding salary and your possible starting date.

We look forward to getting to know you!

ownCloud GmbH

Rathsbergstrasse 17

90411 Nürnberg