Senior DevOps Engineer - Join Our Innovative Team at think-cell Software
Our Story
At think-cell, we create powerful software solutions that help professionals be more efficient and productive. Founded in 2002 and based in Berlin, our tools integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Office to help users create presentations, charts, and diagrams with ease. Our dynamic, international team values creativity, collaboration, and technical excellence.
What You Will Do
We are looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in Berlin. You will report to the Head of Infrastructure and act as the main DevOps contact for our AI and Data teams, helping to design, maintain, and improve our infrastructure. Your work will directly support the development team in implementing our AI product strategy, while playing a key role in maturing and securing our internal data software stack.
This is a hands-on role where you will design, standardize, and improve infrastructure, ensuring security, scalability, and reliability across hybrid environments (Azure, GCP, and on-premises).
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain, and improve infrastructure to support development and data teams.
- Design secure, scalable, and reliable systems with a “security by design” mindset.
- Standardize and advance our DevOps stack, introducing best practices and automation.
- Build and manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) and modern CI/CD pipelines (Gitea Actions, Jenkins)
- Deploy and maintain containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Establish monitoring and logging solutions to ensure visibility, reliability, and performance.
- Share responsibility for on-call and incident response within the senior engineering team.
- Collaborate closely with AI, Data, and Development teams, while aligning with the Head of Infrastructure.
You will be great for this position if you have
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines (Gitea Actions, Jenkins).
- Experience in hybrid environments (cloud & on-prem), ideally with Azure and GCP.
- A mindset of security by design and familiarity with modern security practices.
- Ability to improve and standardize existing DevOps environments.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across teams.
- Fluent English (mandatory); German is a strong plus.
- Curiosity, hands-on mentality, and a drive to stay up-to-date with evolving technologies.
- Experience in small or fast-paced environments is a plus.
This role is based in Berlin and requires in office presence 4-5 days a week.
Our Values
As part of our team, you will embody and help shape the following principles that define us:
Forward Thinking: We embrace change and challenge the status quo.
Ownership: We take pride in our work and learn from our mistakes.
Customer First: We prioritize delivering lasting value.
Unified Team: We foster collaboration, respect, and integrity.
Strive for Excellence: We set ambitious goals and pursue quality.
Why is think-cell the right place for you?
We empower over 1.2 million users across 30,000 companies, including top consulting firms and major global enterprises. With offices in Berlin, Denver, Boston, London, Tokyo, and Dubai, we’re a diverse team of over 150 people, committed to innovation and excellence.
Think-cell is more than a job – it's a chance to be part of an innovative, inclusive team that values collaboration and growth. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Together, we can shape the future of productivity software. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring to the team!
Top Skills
What We Do
think-cell is the world’s leading productivity software for creating data-driven presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, enabling users to generate sophisticated charts with ease while saving substantial time (based on a study, users save as much as 70% of their time compared to using native PowerPoint functionality). think-cell offers unparalleled layout functions for automatically arranging text, graphic elements and images while scaling and aligning their content accordingly.
Our software has more than 1 million business users in 194 countries. think-cell is used by 10 out of the 10 top global consulting firms, >90% of the Fortune 100, the entire DAX 40, and 10 of the top 10 business schools.
Why Work With Us
think-cell is a well-established, fast-paced software company. We know that our success is based on the skills and dedication of our team members. Therefore, we try to create a working environment that is friendly and welcoming and makes exceptional people come and stay.
