Working Student InfrastructureDevOps 20 hrsweek fmd

Help us decarbonize the cement and concrete industry.

alcemy was founded to reduce the massive CO2 footprint of the cement and concrete industry. Concrete is humanitys second most used material by volume and its production is responsible for around 8% of global CO2 emissions.

We are changing this! We leverage machine learning to provide smart production control software to the cement and concrete supply chain to improve efficiency and allow for the production of lowcarbon cement and concrete at large scale. Our software is used 24/7 in cement and concrete plants to optimize production and reduce carbon emissions today. We are currently enabling our customers to save more than 100 000 tons of CO2 emissions each year and we aim to save 100 million tons per year in 2030.

Now as were growing we need you to support our Infrastructure/DevOps team.

What youd be doing:

• Join the infrastructure/DevOps team as a working student for up to 20 hours/week.
• Work closely with the other engineers to ensure our AWSbased infrastructure kubernetes platforms and development processes are top notch.
• Support application developers and ML specialists in their daily work with questions around tooling deployment CI/CD and many others.
• Develop internal solutions and tooling using Python or Bash for example to automate and optimize our setup.
• Take your first steps in the industry working in a startup where your actions truly have an impact.
• Help save the planet!

Requirements

Youd be a great fit if:

• You care about fighting climate change.
• You are a student currently enrolled in a Computer Science or similar program at a German university.
• You have experience with AWS kubernetes and a CI/CD platform.
• You are comfortable with the shell Bash scripting and git.
• You are a good communicator.

Even better:

• You know how IaC with Terraform works.
• You can set up and administer a kubernetes cluster.
• You know what these abbreviations mean and have some experience working with them: EC2 SQS SNS S3 EKS RDS IAM.
• You can tell the difference between Github and Gitlab and understand how CI/CD works on both platforms.
• You know some Python.

Within the first month you will...

• complete our onboarding and get guided through our development and CI/CD process and the details of our cloud infrastructure.
• know your way around the team and have helped the team to ship features.
• inevitably learn a lot about cement production or the intricacies of concrete data.

Within three months you will

• upgrade our kubernetes clusters to a new major version which we do multiple times a year.
• have contributed code to some of our repositories or even our Pythonbased CI helper chatbot.
• learn the intricacies of Terraform code and collaborative work on Terraform code.
• be able to assist other engineers when their applications fail by understanding logs and metrics.

Our Tech stack:

• Our applications and data are hosted entirely on AWS we make use of a variety of their services. EKS EC2 RDS and S3 are among them. We manage all of this infrastructure as code with Terraform in a Git repository.
• We want reliability scalability and flexibility so we built a kubernetesbased platform for running our applications. Deployment is automated and hooked tightly into our development workflow. Most engineers know how to interact and work with the platform.
• All our code lives on Gitlab and we use Gitlab CI to drive our development process.
• Our applications are written in Python using a number of different frameworks like FastAPI or scikitlearn. The frontend applications are built on top of NextJS and React.

Benefits

What we offer:

• A company culture where honesty professionalism and integrity run deep with an open feedback culture and regular 1:1 meetings.
• Flat hierarchies efficient decisionmaking processes and an agile company structure.
• Competitive marketrate salary aligned with your experience.
• Work fully remotely within Germany or from our office in the heart of Berlin with flexible working hours.
• Of course free drinks fruit and snacks in the office.
• Regular team activities and team weeks a few times per year.
• Mac or Linux laptop.
• English is our main language of communication.
• 28 days of vacation per year and an additional day of vacation every 2 years at alcemy.
• Access to nilo.health the comprehensive mental wellbeing platform that provides access to 1to1 sessions with psychologists group sessions and selfguided tools.
• Dogfriendly office with specific rules in place as well as dogfree areas for work and relaxation.

Working at alcemy:

• We value transparency and direct feedback and are always open to refactoring how we work together.
• Engineers take ownership of their features from implementation testing through code reviews and deployment.
• No one is oncall.
• Weve been working hard to get a defined career progression framework in place charting out both technical expert & management tracks.
• We are passionate about helping our customers and always approach them and each other in a supportive and appreciative way.
• We use modern communication tools like Google Workspace and Slack.

Hiring Process

Our hiring process is fully remote and well communicate with you over email and video chat.

• Initial 1:1 screening call (30 minutes) with one of our team members
• Complete a takehome task relevant to the actual work youd be doing
• A team and technical interview (60 minutes) with 2 of your future team members

Note: We cannot offer relocation support for this position and due to regulations you need to be enrolled in a German university.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) at alcemy

For the past two years we have been dedicated to enhancing the diversity and inclusivity of our company. We have organized diversity workshops and established a DEI workgroup. By actively collecting feedback educating our team and considering new ideas we have implemented several key improvements:

• Flexible work schedules to help you balance your job with your personal life.
• Access to nilo.health a comprehensive mental wellbeing platform that provides 1to1 sessions with psychologists group sessions and selfguided tools including sessions with representatives of minorities.
• A diverse team to work with. We have team members across different age profiles ethnicities religions gender identities and orientations.
• No mandatory vacation periods: use your time off for religious holidays special events or however you see fit.
• Collecting feedback from team members during 1:1 meetings with team leaders AMA sessions with the founders and through regular engagement surveys.

Were committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and included. Our journey toward diversity equity and inclusion is ongoing and were excited about the progress well make.