SRE/DevOps Engineer (mid/senior)

We’re looking for highly motivated, unconventional thinkers who love the outdoors to join our clients mission.

We have got big ideas and ambitions, backed by some of the best investors in technology and the outdoors. We are very proud of the incredibly talented and diverse mix of colleagues we work with and love to get outdoors together as much as we can. There’s always a team trip on the horizon and everyone in the company gets access to our breath-taking Chamonix mountain office and accommodation in Chamonix. We call it ‘product testing’!

If you love big challenges, a fast moving environment and want to help us build the future of outdoor adventure, we’d love to hear from you.

THE OPPORTUNITY - SRE/DevOps Engineer (mid/senior)

Come and join us on our mission to make our client  the Home of the Outdoors . . .
the place where every adventure begins.

Our client is expanding in Product Development and as such we are looking for an experienced person (f/m/d) to strengthen the team with their expertise.

Build the future of outdoor adventure with us!

A growing Outdoor Adventure Technology Company, building the leading platform for outdoor adventure. We are revolutionising the way people discover, plan, live and share their adventures. Our advanced 3D mapping technology, outdoor toolkit and curated adventure index is used by top professionals and a fast growing community of outdoor enthusiasts, to enjoy better, safer adventure.

Who – experience and mind-set

We are looking for another teammate with a deep understanding of DevOps and SRE technologies, methodologies and tooling.

You should be well versed in deployment, integration, automation and orchestration.

You should approach operational problems with an engineering mindset, and be comfortable making reliability and performance improvements in software as well as infrastructure.

With a deep and interesting tech stack and is solving hard problems. As we scale we need to do this more efficiently, both from an infrastructure and developer perspective.

Our team provides paved roads for deploying and operating our services and helps the mapping, rendering and product teams make their services reliable, observable and efficient.

Would you be excited to work on these topics with talented colleagues in a growing, smart and eager company determined to reshape outdoor mapping?

THIS is the place to be!

How – working here

People at ****** have a lot of autonomy at work. We offer a largely flexible environment. At our working hubs in Berlin (DE), Vilnius (LT) and Chamonix (FR) you'll be able to meet up with your teammates to work on a project together or just spend some time in an office environment.

We are mostly remote by nature, and hence value sync time strongly. We also value our hubs and trying to keep a balance. Still, you needn't worry about your calendar being full of regular meetings. You work with bleeding edge technology, use and run them in development and production. You are enabled to actively create and contribute to processes and ways of working.

This also requires you to be able to work independently. You need problem solving and debugging skills, and a good dose of pragmatism.

What – responsibilities

• Work as part of a team to develop and maintain infrastructure as code.
  

• Plan, improve, oversee and monitor our client's different environments.
  

• Optimise processes for efficiency and simplicity.
  

• Debug service failures.
  

• Champion site reliability engineering, leading by example.
  

  What – qualification and experience
  

  Required - your application will not be considered without these
  

• 3+ years experience in the field.
  

• Experience with Containers, Cloud and Orchestration. We use mainly Kubernetes.
  

  (EKS on AWS) and open source tooling around it.
  

• Experience with automation and scripting in a language like Bash, Python, Ruby or Go.
  

• We communicate a lot with our colleagues around the world hence English language skills are a must.
  

  Desired - your application is strong if you fulfill some of these criteria
  

• Bachelor’s or higher in computer science or related (STEM) subject.
  

• Expertise in Linux internals, TCP/IP networking, SRE processes and/or large scale
  

  cloud architecture.
  

• Our stack is primarily Golang, Ruby and Typescript, so software development experience in one or more of those languages is a big plus.
  

• Experience automating CI/CD and infrastructure, with tools like Buildkite, CircleCI, Github Actions, Jenkins, Ansible, Kustomize, Skaffold, Helm, Crossplane or Terraform.
  

• Experience optimizing and improving relational and non-relational database workloads. (i.e.: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, GraphQL or others)
  

• A passion for improving systems, and for working together towards a common cause.
  

• People at ****** generally share a passion for the outdoors and/or mapping.
  

• If you have such a passion or specific experience in this area, we'd love to hear about it in your application.
  

With great packages and benefits including

• 3 inspiring office hubs in Chamonix, Berlin and Vilnius Flexible and (partly) remote working - working adventure trips are encouraged
  

• Really awesome technical setup (laptop, screens, headset etc.) to get the job done
  

• All your outdoor gear at pro pricing unlimited reference and learning materials - for
  

  your work and adventures!
  

• Regular team/company trips to outdoor adventure destinations
  

• Free use of our Chamonix apartment - 100m from the ski lift and surrounded by the biggest mountain range in Europe! With a stash of gear including tents, bouldering mats, sleeping bags, harnesses, ropes to borrow for free any time you like
  

• New friends to explore with