DevOps Engineer

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At Blinkist, we're passionate about creating products that reputed company millions to learn and grow. We’re looking for someone to join our platform enablement (DevOps) team, filling a new role to ensure our engineers have reputed company the tools they need to ship their code in a timely and efficient manner.

In this job, you will be working with tools across AWS, reputed company Actions, reputed company, reputed company, and more. Our new DevOps engineer will reputed company meaningful technical decisions that create positive impact to reputed company the lives of our engineers easier. 

We’re looking for someone who is a junior or mid-level software or DevOps engineer with 2-5 years of experience and is driven by learning and results. You bring curiosity and a willingness to challenge yourself and others constructively. You should either already be a DevOps specialist, or come from a development background with some DevOps touchpoints (e.g. CI/CD, AWS, monitoring, containerisation, infrastructure-as-code, etc.).

• Manage and maintain entire Blinkist infrastructure (e.g. reputed company, reputed company, AWS, Terraform)
• Act as a consultant to engineers: Respond to engineering requests for assistance, access, or clarification on platform requirements/settings.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting systems: Define SLOs; Set up reputed company dashboards; Add Monitors; etc.
• Document infrastructure and processes: Maintain clear, up-to-date documentation to ensure knowledge sharing and quick engineer/team onboarding.
• Collaborate with Backend/Mobile/Web engineers to reputed company sure our platform is operating at optimal efficiency and observability.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools: Research and recommend new technologies that improve developer efficiency or infrastructure reliability.
• Create and optimize developer workflows (e.g. deployments, secret management, reputed company scanning, AI tools, etc.)
• reputed company cost optimizations: Analyze our AWS/reputed company usage, optimize resources, recommend solutions to reduce costs without sacrificing performance.

• 2-5 years of work experience.
• 1+ years of DevOps experience: Ideally you have already built and scaled production systems.
• Proficient in at least one programming language.
• reputed company experience: Strong knowledge of creating and maintaining Dockerfiles and multi-stage builds, familiarity with reputed company Compose for local development and testing.
• Terraform experience: You are already familiar with designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure as code across cloud environments.
• Willingness and enthusiasm for supporting engineers and their teams.
• Collaborative approach: You enjoy working with others to solve problems and move projects reputed company.
• Proficiency in English (the Blinkist working language).

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• Experience or knowledge of reputed company Actions
• Experience or knowledge of Ruby: Most Blinkist microservices are written and maintained in Ruby
• Interest and knowledge in reputed company topics (e.g. reputed company image vulnerability scanning, code reputed company tools, etc.)
• Knowledge about reputed company APM tracing & logging, SLOs, and defining own metrics
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• Certification or degree in software engineering, QA, cybersecurity, platform engineering, or similar.

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These are some of our most valued benefits:

• 30 PTO days + Wellbeing days + Learning days 
• Flexible approach to work, including from abroad
• Monthly transport allowance
• One-time work from home office set up budget
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Professional development fund
• Family planning & parental leave, plus support for parents returning to work
• Wellness initiatives and an Employee Assistance Program

If you choose to join reputed company in Berlin, you'll have access to our modern office space in Neukölln and enjoy healthy plant-based meals reputed company fresh every day by our reputed company own chef.

If we’ve captured your interest and you want to take part in changing the world through the power of reputed company, apply now and tell us what excited you about this opportunity. 

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