Senior IT & Automation Engineer
UpvestInvestment Infrastructure company
Berlin, GermanySenior
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About the role
TL;DR
Senior IT & Automation Engineer at Upvest, focusing on internal IT stack, automation, and AI tool integration.
- •As a Senior Engineer, you'll be a core part of a small, high-ownership TechOps function at Upvest.
- •You're expected to bring ideas, challenge assumptions, flag risks early, and operate with a high degree of autonomy.
- •Key Responsibilities Owning our core internal IT stack, user lifecycle management, and security controls.
- •Managing our Mac laptop fleet and ensuring company endpoints meet security standards.
- •Acting as a trusted advisor to teams, evaluating and prioritising tooling requests.
- •Continuously looking for ways to automate and improve processes.
- •Leveraging AI tools to improve the quality and speed of output.
- •Collaborating with the Security team on AI tool governance.
- •Participating in response activities when a security event occurs.
- •Requirements Demonstrated ability to think critically and challenge assumptions.
- •Proven experience building and maintaining automations using tools like Okta Workflows, n8n, Tines, Make or similar.
- •Active, hands-on use of AI tools to improve work quality and speed.
- •Strong understanding of macOS and Apple device management (MDM/DEP).
- •Prior experience with Okta, Google Workspace is required.
Required skills
SlackKubernetesDockerPythonGo
Nice-to-have skills
GitHub ActionsTerraform
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Best-in-class AI tools, Impact-driven work, Wellbeing, Development, Flexible work environment, Compensation and equity, Team celebrations, Inclusion
Tech stack
SlackGitHub ActionsTerraformGoPythonDockerKubernetesLLMs