Senior Software Engineer DevOps Toolchain AI (m/w/d)

About the Project

With the AI4DevOps project, we are creating a company-wide, standardized framework for the pragmatic, secure, and scalable use of Artificial Intelligence in the DevOps lifecycle. The goal is to specifically relieve developers and DevOps teams, increase quality, and sustainably integrate AI into tools, processes, and governance. A core component is the AI4DevOps Navigator as part of the DevOps Mainline. It bundles validated AI use cases, standards, best practices, prerequisites, and integration options along the DevOps lifecycle and serves as operational guidance for teams.

Responsibilities

• You analyze complex requirements and conceptualize strategic AI-supported DevOps use cases, the implementation of which you manage independently and further develop together with interdisciplinary teams.
• You are responsible for the development, integration, and operation of scalable automation solutions within the DevOps toolchain and drive their continuous optimization and standardization.
• You initiate and lead proofs of concept as well as technological evaluations and create well-founded decision-making bases for the use of new technologies and target architectures.
• You define, establish, and are responsible for sustainable quality assurance measures and best practices (including testing, CI/CD, documentation) and actively manage the further development of the Mainline.
• You take on technical leadership responsibility by coordinating projects, making largely autonomous decisions, and actively promoting the technical development of team members.

Requirements

• You have experience in cloud and platform architectures, especially with public cloud offerings from Azure, AWS, OpenAI, or Anthropic.
• You have sound experience in development with Java and Spring Boot, as well as with agentic frameworks and AI-based automation.
• You have extensive practical experience with CI/CD and DevOps processes (e.g., GitHub Actions, proFlow, CICDnext) and routinely implement test-driven development and common security standards (e.g., OWASP).
• You have experience in agile development environments and in using modern development approaches (e.g., Agentic SDLC) as well as practical knowledge in the productive use of AI tools like GitHub Copilot to increase efficiency in software development.
• You are motivated to actively help shape a company-wide AI framework for DevOps with high visibility and have a high willingness to learn.

Learnable Skills

• During onboarding, you will expand your knowledge of AI-SDLC and integration of AI into DevOps processes and agentic frameworks and AI-based automation.
• Application of AI Governance and Policy as Code.

What We Offer

• Possibility to work in "home office" in the sense of mobile, location-independent work within Germany, including the associated technical equipment.
• Flexible working hours, including the possibility of time off in lieu for good work-life balance.
• Large offering of professional and personal further training both during and outside working hours, as well as numerous internal communities for networking and mutual learning, and much more…

About Us

DATEV is more than a green rectangle. We are one of the largest software and IT service providers in Europe, with our headquarters in Nuremberg. More than 9,000 employees give their all to drive the digitalization of the business processes of our over 900,000 customers. They rely on our PC and cloud solutions as well as mobile apps and use them, for example, to process around 14 million payrolls every month. We are a strong and open community where people not only arrive quickly but also like to stay. Our culture of security and openness, which meets a technologically advanced working environment, ensures this. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are the essential foundation for us to ensure that everyone can participate equally in working life. DATEV stands for this every day. The best future is created in a strong community. We are DATEV! We look forward to your application via our career portal and to getting to know you. To ensure a secure and efficient application process, we ask you to create an application account on the next page.

Contact

Lena Ehemann Phone: 49 (911) 31942448 E-mail: