Senior DevOps Engineer (AI & Automation Platform) (All Genders)

Schaeffler is a dynamic global technology company and its success has been a result of its entrepreneurial spirit and long history of private ownership. Does that sound interesting to you? As a partner to all of the major automobile manufacturers, as well as key players in the aerospace and industrial sectors, we offer you many development opportunities.

About the Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer (AI & Automation Platform), you will be responsible for building and maintaining secure, scalable cloud infrastructures that power AI-driven automation. In this role, you will design and operate enterprise-ready solutions, implement Infrastructure as Code practices, and drive automation across systems and workflows. You will collaborate with internal teams and external vendors, ensuring performance, reliability, and compliance while mentoring colleagues and fostering an agile, innovation-oriented culture. This position is ideal for a hands‑on engineer with strong analytical skills, a passion for automation, and the ability to take ownership of mission‑critical services.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure for AI process automation platforms
• Ensuring operable and securing cloud-based solution architecture for custom-developed, open-source, and off-the-shelf applications
• Acting as technical consultant for internal colleagues and collect their feedback to ensure a successful user experience
• Establishing and maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve performance issues
• Taking on the technical responsibility of applications throughout the life cycle as part of a DevOps team
• Driving improvements of the automation level of our operations towards self-service
• Close collaboration with external software vendors for managing, developing, and maintaining IT systems
• Building and maintaining disaster recovery and business continuity plans for mission‑critical applications and infrastructure
• Ensuring compliance with security policies and standards, working with security and compliance teams as necessary

Your Qualifications

• University degree in (business) informatics or alternative training with relevant professional experience in this field
• At least 7 years of relevant professional experience in this field
• Strong automation and infrastructure as code mindset backed by proven experience in using Terraform and CI/CD technologies like Jenkins or GitHub Actions
• Experience with DevOps workflows for infrastructure management and automated incident response
• Proven experience in installing, configuring, maintaining and managing support operations with third party software in secured and enterprise ready private cloud environments