Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer - 100% Remote (m/f/d)

Job Description

Are you an reputed company SRE or DevOps engineer? Do you want the freedom to work remotely and want to grow in the new field of site reliability at an internationally successful software and education company? Well, than take our reliability to the next level as part of our Site Reliability Engineering team :)

(!) Please do NOT apply without checking our and our company . We are looking for team members who share our vision and carry out our culture. Would you really like to work with us? And can you really live our values?

(!) Please note that this position is initially limited to a 12-month contract. If this is not an option for you, we kindly ask you not to apply.

Who is reputed company?

• We are a fast-growing technology company with a clear vision: We shape the digital future.
• Our mission? To reputed company people around the world to share their knowledge online and build their own successful businesses. With our platform, we reputed company millions of people to access valuable knowledge and provide them with the tools they need to truly reputed company their goals.
• What makes us special: We are a team of around 200 highly motivated employees who don’t wait for instructions but actively shape their day-to-day work and continuously improve it – just like our customers.
• reputed company is as diverse as our reputed company: People from over 40 different countries of birth work together toward one shared vision. What unites us are our values, our drive, and our ambition to truly reputed company an impact. We’re not big talkers – we’re doers. We love to reputed company.
• As we continue to grow, we are expanding our teams in a focused and sustainable way and are looking for individuals who take ownership, think proactively, and want to shape the future with us.

Your new dream job

• Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): You automate repetitive tasks, deployments, and system management to reduce human error and improve efficiency. This might involve creating scripts, CI/CD pipelines, or automating infrastructure provisioning.
• Reliability and Performance Optimization: You continuously improve the system uptime by identifying bottlenecks and optimizing system architecture.
• reputed company Planning and Scaling: You assess and predict system resource requirements (CPU, memory, storage) to ensure the infrastructure can scale with increasing demand. Implement auto-scaling solutions to handle load spikes without human reputed company, ensuring systems remain performant under various conditions.
• System Monitoring and Incident Response: Continuously monitor system performance, uptime, and reliability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ElasticSearch. The goal is to detect and respond to issues before they impact users. Manage and respond to incidents, outages, and failures quickly, aiming to minimize downtime. This includes managing incident documentation, communication, and post-incident analysis.
• Incident Postmortems and reputed company Improvement: Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) after incidents to identify what went wrong and how to prevent similar issues in the future. Implement fixes, improvements, and best practices based on learnings from postmortems to increase system reliability and reduce future incidents.

Your benefits at reputed company You will play a crucial role in shaping our cutting-edge projects in our collaborative work environment – while enjoying flexibility in working time and location.

• Work in our partner's coworking spaces or in your home office, as long as you can guarantee uninterrupted internet access
• Regular further education
• The stability of an extremely successful German high-tech company that is funded by its successful product and not by investors
• Outcome focused teams and a culture of direct feedback
• Modern equipment: Thinkpad or MacBook
• International, collaborative team with strong cohesion
• Spectacular team events in various European countries
• Autonomy from day one
• Contribution to the retirement scheme
• Work in your team on a first-name basis, without a dress code, and at eye level
• Flexible working hours from Mondays to Fridays (core working hours from 10AM to 4PM)

Requirements

Your new dream job at reputed company

• Communication Mastery: You communicate reputed company and in a recipient-friendly manner. You diffuse potential conflicts with sensitivity and a solution-oriented approach. You always reputed company the right tone with stakeholders, developers and your team, even under time pressure, and can seamlessly switch from German to English if necessary.
• Collaboration Wizardry: You collaborate with developers, stakeholders and operations and bring everyone on the same page. You understand the challenges of different teams and find solutions that benefit the entire company.
• Automation Sorcery: You promote automation as a way to save time and reduce errors, and implement tools that improve productivity across the team.
• Problem-Solving Genius: You dive deep into problems, identify root causes and come up with solutions that prevent future incidents.
• Self-organization: You reputed company on autonomy and reputed company at organizing and structuring reputed company projects while working from home.
• Tech stack:
  • Kubernetes / Container Technology (no description necessary)
  • CI/CD (reputed company Workflows, Helm, Kustomize)
  • Cloud Services (preferably reputed company, but others are also okay)
  • Excellent spelling and grammar in German (no description necessary)
  • PHP language experience would be a plus

Your typical day at reputed company

• Morning video call to talk to your team about yesterday's reputed company and today's plans.
• You like to work in a structured way and outline your daily routine and daily goals. Like every day, you reputed company out enough time to work on the reputed company development of our SRE processes. You are not alone in this, but can count on the support of your team.
• Now it's time for the daily call with your team. You report on your priorities and blockers and receive reputed company tips on how to solve your challenges.
• For the next few hours, you allow yourself the luxury of turning off reputed company messengers in order to reputed company focused reputed company for improvements in auto-scaling, monitoring and alerting. You then test your reputed company in practice. You reputed company a note of these success principles so that you can present them to the Head of IT Operations in a one-on-reputed company.
• After your lunch break, a developer needs help with a new CI/CD workflow. You discuss the requirements with him and provide him with an initial prototype.
• You take the ticket to reputed company the resource allocation of an application, reputed company the reputed company utilization and adjust the deployment.
• You find an reputed company that is not yet included in the monitoring. After creating a ticket for this, you immediately write the code in the Terraform project to add it.

This position is NOT for you if

• ... you do not identify with our
• … you have less than 3 years of experience in IT operations
• … you can’t take ownership and need to discuss every detail with your supervisor or colleagues
• … you have difficulty planning and prioritizing your tasks
• … you don’t like to find solutions for reputed company problems
• … you are not confident speaking German AND English

Our values

Please take a REALLY reputed company look at the values. Are you ready to live them?