DevOps Engineer - Event Infrastructure

At Statista, we’re all about facts and data, for we are the world's leading business data platform. By providing reliable and easy-to-use data as well as various data analytics products and services, we empower people worldwide to make fact-based decisions.

Founded in Hamburg in 2007, we have quickly grown into a global company with offices in major cities such as London, New York, Berlin and Tokyo. And we still have a lot of plans. Our constant growth does not only prove our success, but also keeps creating new development and career opportunities for our employees.

We value and celebrate our diverse culture. You are welcome here for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or whether you prefer bar graphs to pie charts. Your story matters – keep writing it as part of our team.

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About the Role

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with strong AWS expertise to build and operate our company-wide event bus platform. You will extend our existing real-time event monitoring system into a scalable, self-service platform that enables teams across the organization to produce and consume events reliably.

What You'll Do

- Build & Operate Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure for a company-wide event streaming platform using Infrastructure-as-Code (AWS CDK)

- Automate Everything: Create CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and infrastructure provisioning workflows

- Scale the Platform: Architect highly available, fault-tolerant systems using AWS services (ECS, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch)

- Enable Teams: Build self-service tooling and documentation so other teams can onboard to the event platform independently

- Ensure Security: Implement IAM policies, network security, secrets management, and compliance controls

- Monitor & Optimize: Set up observability with Datadog, establish SLOs, and optimize infrastructure costs

- Collaborate: Work closely with development teams to ...