About hellomed
hellomed is the leading digital medication partner for care providers — with the motto: Long-term medication, made simple! With our innovative hellomedOS software, we ease the daily medication work of care staff and make it even safer for their patients. hellomed is looking for an experienced, hands-on DevOps/Platform Engineer to build and operate secure, reliable infrastructure on DigitalOcean while improving our developers' tools and delivery workflows.
Responsibilities
•Administer and operate DigitalOcean infrastructure with OpenTofu / Terraform.
•Administer secure staging and production environments.
•Build, administer and maintain Docker-based development and deployment workflows.
•Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment security and developer experience.
•Implement pragmatic approaches to secrets, access, backups, monitoring and infrastructure state.
•Reduce manual operational tasks so that changes are traceable, reviewable, reproducible and auditable.
•Work independently while documenting decisions and training developers, so knowledge and good operational practices are shared across the team.
•Assess operational needs as the platform grows, including whether formal incident response or on-call practices are needed.
•Contribute to the PHP/Laravel backend, where experience and role allocation allow.
Requirements
•Extensive senior-level experience building and operating production infrastructure.
•Strong practical knowledge of OpenTofu or Terraform.
•Comprehensive experience with Docker and container-based development and deployment.
•Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
•Experience with cloud networking, access control, secrets management, backups and observability.
•Ability to work independently, make pragmatic technical decisions and explain them clearly.
•A security-conscious approach appropriate for systems containing sensitive health data.
•Clear documentation skills and a desire to empower the team rather than become a knowledge bottleneck.
Nice to have
•PHP and Laravel development — explicitly welcome, especially for candidates interested in a full-time position.
•Experience with DigitalOcean or comparable cloud platforms.
•Ansible or similar configuration management tools.
•SOPS, age or comparable secrets management workflows.
•Experience with developer tooling and internal platform support for a growing engineering team.
Conditions
•Competitive compensation and work-life balance package.
•Up to 2 days of working from home after onboarding and flexible working hours: no shifts, on-call duties or weekend work.
•Permanent employment contract, including an attractive workspace in our modern office in the heart of Kreuzberg, Berlin, with good public transport connections.
•We provide drinks, fresh fruit and muesli every day.
•Whether over lunch or at regular team events, we create unforgettable moments together.
•Your personal development matters to us. You can pursue further education or attend training at any time to continuously develop your skills.
