Your mission
As Senior DevOps Engineer at VR Smart Guide you will take a leading role in designing implementing and managing the infrastructure that powers our digital solutions for small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs). The mission is to ensure smooth scalable and secure operations of our systems with a focus on maintaining high availability and efficiency while enabling fast reliable delivery of new features.
Your role and contribution
- Infrastructure Management: Design and implement cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) for highly available scalable and secure services.
- Automation & CI/CD: Lead the automation of deployment processes using CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins GitLab) to minimize downtime and enable frequent and reliable releases.
- Monitoring & Incident Management: Establish monitoring systems to ensure uptime performance and early detection of issues (e.g. using Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack). Lead the incident response process and implement preventive measures.
- Collaboration: Work closely with engineering teams to integrate DevOps principles into the software development lifecycle enabling faster and more efficient feature delivery.
- Security: Implement security best practices including regular audits vulnerability assessments and security patches. Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Device Management: Oversee the deployment configuration and management of enduser devices (e.g. laptops workstations) ensuring proper security measures and software compliance.
- Cost Optimization: Monitor infrastructure costs and optimize resource usage to achieve costefficient operations.
Your profile
- 5 years in a DevOps role ideally in a fintech or startup environment
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent work experience)
- Cloud Platforms: Proven experience with AWS (preferred) or other cloud providers (Azure GCP)
- CI/CD Pipelines: Experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD workflows (e.g. Jenkins GitLab CircleCI)
- Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency in Terraform CloudFormation or similar tools
- Containers & Orchestration: Expertise in container technologies like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
- Monitoring Tools: Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack)
- Security: Solid understanding of security best practices and compliance (ISO GDPR)
- Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in scripting languages (Python Bash etc.) for automation tasks
- Fluent in English
- Willing to travel occasionally to Berlin and/or Eschborn
Our benefits
- Educational budget of up to 1.500 Euros per year to enhance your professional knowledge and skills
- A space to express yourself shape this role and your work according to what you think works best for your development and company success
- A hybrid work environment we have locations in Eschborn (near Frankfurt) and Berlin to come together to collaborate. The rest of the time enjoy the flexibility of remote work
- An exciting mix of cultures yes multiple nationalities coming together to serve small business owners AND a mix of speedy and spy startup action as well as an established brand to have our backs
- An opportunity to make a difference in the lives of small business owners and in shaping the way we work what benefits to establish and how we celebrate each other