Staff DevOps Engineer (f/m/d)

IDnow is a leader in digital identity and fraud prevention in Europe with a mission to transform trust into the most powerful asset in the digital world, empowering enterprises with AI-driven, SaaS-based identity solutions that deliver scalable security, adaptive compliance, and real-time fraud prevention. Through its broad portfolio of digital identity and fraud prevention solutions, IDnow establishes, maintains and enriches trust throughout the customer journey, ensuring businesses can confidently and securely operate while leveraging digital identity to drive growth, security and scalability.

The company has offices in Germany, United Kingdom, Romania and France, and is backed by renowned institutional investors, including Corsair Capital and Seventure Partners. Its portfolio of international clients spans a wide range of end markets including financial services, telecommunications, travel & mobility, gaming, and other industries.

This position is based in Rennes, France.  

IDnow is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer (f/m/d) to join our growing platform team in Rennes, France. We are looking for someone who can go beyond execution and take true technical ownership of our platform - driving architecture decisions, mentoring peers, and leading critical projects as we transition from on-premises infrastructure to AWS. 

You will be a senior technical voice within the team, working closely with the Engineering Manager and cross-functional stakeholders to shape the future of our platform infrastructure. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Act as a staff-level technical lead - own epics, drive architecture decisions, and set the technical direction for platform initiatives.
• Lead the migration from on-premises infrastructure to AWS, ensuring continuity and resilience throughout the transition.
• Champion best practices in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and platform reliability.
• Serve as a go-to expert and escalation point for complex technical challenges within the team.
• Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure across both cloud (AWS) and on-prem environments.
• Manage and optimize the on-premises virtualization platform (Proxmox/Ceph) while progressively shifting workloads to AWS.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (AWS) and Ansible (on-prem).
• Manage networking components including firewalls, switches, and related security configurations.
• Ensure platform security through TLS certificate management, Vault, and close collaboration with the Security team
• Participate in the on-call rotation (approximately every 6 weeks) covering the full platform stack - from infrastructure to CI/CD layers.
• Respond to and resolve production incidents in a timely manner; contribute to post-mortems and continuous improvement.
• Support and improve observability, monitoring, and alerting across the platform. 

Preferred Experience 

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering.
• Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Senior+ level — owning projects end-to-end with minimal oversight.
• Experience working in a hybrid on-prem / cloud environment, ideally during cloud migration.
• Passionate about technology and always learning.
• Proactive, ownership-driven mindset, you build, improve, and take responsibility.
• Strong communicator- able to engage stakeholders, document decisions, and collaborate across distributed teams. 

Nice-to-have's 

• Familiarity with Proxmox or similar open-source hypervisors.
• Experience with security tooling beyond SSL/TLS (e.g., WAF, IDS/IPS).
• Experience in a fast-moving SaaS or product-led engineering organization.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows. 

Perks & Benefits 

• Health & Wellbeing: Use your full access to the mental health platform nilo, including 1on1 sessions.
• We value personal and professional development: make full use of Udemy, our training platform with 24/7 access and unlimited content/course consumption incl. certification.
• We make your remote work comfy: we provide support on equipment and offer flexible working hours.
• We value collaboration & love to come together: regular onsite gatherings, internal initiatives and summer parties to connect outside of work.
• May your family require your attention or other reasons apply: use the benefit of our paid special leave days.
• Enjoy the possibility to combine work with a longer stay at your holiday destination or extend a weekend with our Workcation possibilities.
• In addition to the perks & benefits above, we offer specific benefits that differ between our locations. 

IDnow applies the principles of non-discrimination and equality: We strive to establish, maintain, and promote an open and inclusive recruitment process and working environment by respecting the principles of equal opportunities. Including but not limited to: sex, race or ethnic origin, religion or convictions, gender identity, citizenship, marital status, disability, age, or sexual orientation.