Job description

We are looking for a skilled SysOps/DevOps Engineer and Linux admin. Help building and extending our hosting platform. Ensure the highest levels of availability, performance and security. Make a big impact by joining a small developer-centric team.

Core responsibilities

Strategic thinking: Shape future features
Development: Help building a new platform version

Might involve

Maintenance: Help keeping the current infra running (security updates & review)
Operations: Troubleshoot issues (review & restart failed services)
Automation: Increase system efficiency & lower the human intervention
Tuning: Evaluate performance, identify bottlenecks, implement solutions
Security: Oversee security, backup and redundancy strategies
2nd level support: Help clients

Why to join

Join a small team to make a big impact
Be part of a technology focused company culture
Research continuously, acquiring knowledge
Enjoy good working conditions
Freedom of time
Freedom of location
Growth opportunities

Please consider

Strictly no agencies!
This is a full time offering, half-time also possible
Job location is Berlin Kreuzberg, nearby Schlesisches Tor
REMOTE is OK
This does not matter: race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical disability, unemployed …

Job requirements

Practical mindset
Eager to learn new things
Courage for responsibly
Team player
Practical experience with Kubernetes in production
Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, IAM, DynamoDB, S3)
Linux administrator by heart (Ubuntu/Debian)
Good understanding of Linux security strategies
Good understanding of container operations (LXC)
Track record building scalable architectures
Experience with web service operations (Apache, HAproxy, NGINX, FPM)
Experience with peripheral operations (memcached, queueing, centralized logging, elastic search, bind, …)
Experience with RDBMS, specifically with administering MySQL
Fluent in written and spoken English

Your nice to haves

2+ years experience of working on a Systems Engineer position
Experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform vs. CloudFormation
Experience in backend development (GoLang)
Puppet / Chef / Ansible – at least one
Some experience with the PHP
Knowledge in other tech, languages & frameworks (Python, Ruby, Node, ..)
A public record of mentorship, writing, public speaking, or OSS contribution
You speak German
Startup experience