• 12 May 2026

Senior DevOps Engineer (freelance or employment)

Your Opportunity

mediafellows is a leading software provider for the media and entertainment industry. Headquartered in Berlin, we provide cloud-based content management, marketing, and distribution solutions (SaaS) for broadcasters, studios, and distributors worldwide. Our tools are used to screen, sell, and securely manage high-value media assets.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to help provision, secure, automate, and operate the AWS-based infrastructure supporting our MediaStore platform and related services. A strong focus of this role is infrastructure security, operational reliability, and automation.

This is a unique position to work at the forefront of the transformation of the media industry from on-prem to cloud-based workflows. We look for a new colleague with skill, passion, humor, and a decent sense of responsibility who help us raise our solution to the next level with state-of-the-art web technologies.

Your Responsibilities

  • Provision, maintain, and secure AWS-based production infrastructure
  • Design and operate highly available, fault-tolerant cloud environments
  • Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows
  • Collaborate with developers to bring new services and features into production
  • Help establish and spread DevOps practices across engineering teams
  • Support and troubleshoot large-scale production environments
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions
  • Improve infrastructure security, hardening, and operational resilience
  • Support infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives
  • Ensure reliable environments for media processing and streaming workloads

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in provisioning and operating production multi-service infrastructures in the cloud
  • Strong Linux / Unix administration skills
  • Deep knowledge of AWS infrastructure and services
  • Experience with REST APIs, SOAP/XML, JSON, YAML
  • Strong understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with Git and modern version control workflows
  • Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
  • Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
  • Experience with Docker and containerized environments
  • Familiarity with orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, firewalls, load balancing, and infrastructure security
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (NewRelic, Grafana, etc.)
  • Experience in troubleshooting production incidents and large-scale operational issues
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Nice to Have

  • Security-focused DevOps background
  • Experience in media delivery or streaming platforms
  • Familiarity with security hardening and infrastructure security best practices
  • Experience with security audits (TPN, ISO 27001, etc.)

What we Offer

  • Competitive salary package with perks and/or bonus options
  • Flexible working hours and remote work options
  • A key role in an international team of industry veterans
  • The opportunity to work with high-profile content from major global studios

How to Apply

If this position is of interest to you, please send us your application via email to hr@mediafellows.com containing:

  • A short introduction about yourself, including references
  • List of AWS / DevOps project references you worked on
  • Your availability and preferred setup (employee or contractor)
  • Your expected salary or hourly rate