DevOps Engineer (f/m/d)

Your Responsibilities

• Full stack responsibility of infrastructure and applications (automate, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot).
• Operational duties include 24/7 production support shift duty and on-call shifts distributed among the team.
• Maintain and extend implementation of metrics-based monitoring systems.
• Deployment and support of internally developed applications as well as third party software from test stage up to production environment.
• Systems administration of application hosts: upgrading, patching, and tuning, capacity and performance management.
• Contribute to evaluation and development of initiatives in the DevOps area, including various automation and containerization.
• Counterpart for development in architectural design and advice.

Your Profile

• University degree in Information Technology or equivalent OR 3+ years prior experience technical operations of high critical environments.
• Willingness to work with a classical on-prem stack but also ability to improve it towards containerization (will take some time due to 24/7 critical infrastructure and its regulation).
• Expertise in RedHat Enterprise Linux (installation, system monitoring and maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting, etc.).
• Experience with automation, software deployment, orchestration technologies and continuous integration & delivery (most relevant being: Ansible, Jenkins, etcd, Git, GitHub).
• Ability to take responsibility and deliver results autonomously, sometimes under time pressure.
• Team player who likes to share knowledge and tasks with the team and other peers. Openly communicate and synchronize with the team, share experience, listen and discuss critically and productively.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English. Would be an advantage to have good knowledge of one or more of the following areas: Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Network knowledge: Topologies, LoadBalancer, firewalls, switches, xinetd Proxies, troubleshooting e.g. telnet, ss, Wireshark, Architectural understanding of infrastructures and application design, Experience with security requirements (certificates, TLS encryption, central identity management), Understanding and/or experience with DevOps, SRE, Agile working models, Experience with one or more of the following languages: Java/Kotlin/Python/Go, Understanding of Serverless, Microservices architecture.