Hands-on Engineering Manager and DevOps Leader with over 15 years of experience, strong analytical thinking, specializing in designing, building and running scalable, secure and cost-efficient cloud-native infrastructures at scale. Proven track record leading teams up to 6 engineers in agile and international companies, driving platform automation, and delivering B2B and B2C SaaS platforms. Focused on building platforms, leading engineers, and aligning infrastructure with business goals. Key skills: * Cloud-native architecture, cloud transformation, platform engineering & design leveraging AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, IaC, Terraform, DevSecOps, SaaS and Data infrastructure, cloud and infrastructure security in regulated environments * Building reliable teams, leadership & mentoring, cross-functional collaboration * Strategic thinker combined with operational excellence, deep technical roots and leadership experience - meeting SLAs and exceeding KPIs * Roadmap prioritization and alignment of DevOps strategy with business goals * Cloud operations, microservices optimization, advanced CI/CD pipelines design * Platform security, data protection regulations (GDPR), compliance frameworks, audits preparation (BaFin) * Release management, delivery management, ETL-tooling(Airflow) ownership * Monitoring, logging & observability (Grafana-Stack, Prometheus, New Relic) * Budget ownership, cost management and optimization * Vendor relationships, contract oversight, and external service coordination