Platform Engineer

ProPursuit are currently looking for an experienced Platform Engineer for a client of ours in Munich who has over 18 million monthly user's and the largest in their field within German speaking countries.

The role will offer a hybrid remote module with at least 2 days on-site each week.

Your role:

• The operation of a large web platform in a team, with everything that goes with it
• You make sure to build maintainable and stable solutions with appropriate documentation
• You actively participate in the architecture of our platform and infrastructure
• You provide advice and assistance to colleagues in the other departments and are happy to pass on your knowledge and experience
• You actively help to reduce problems and complexity in existing solutions
• You work closely with your team and our software and data engineers

Our tech stack:

• Nomad, Docker, Chef, AWS, Centos, Elasticsearch, Varnish, HAProxy, XtraDB, Jenkins, Minio, Ovirt, Linkerd, Redis, RabbitMQ, Graylog, Kafka, Scala, Go, Python, Spark, Hadoop, Prometheus, Slack

• You have worked as a platform engineer / DevOps / SRE for at least 2 years, preferably in the web industry
• You have experience of operating a complex platform with self-managed hardware based on Linux and OSS
• You are confident in at least one programming language (Python or Go preferred) and value clear communication and maintainability of the code
• You want to work in a self-organized manner using agile methods
• You also have experience with operating platforms in the cloud (at best with AWS)
• In planning, development and operation, you take on responsibility and show initiative

• Retros and post mortems help us to get even better
• Platform stability and the speed of development do not have to be opposites - we pull together
• With us no specifications are thrown "over the fence", but ideas and architectures are developed together
• We work in self-organized, agile teams in which everyone can contribute their individual strengths
• Our hierarchies are flat, the teams dynamic and the atmosphere is relaxed and friendly with lots of fun
• Night owl or morning person? We live flexible working hours and trustful working hours, because a work-life balance with consideration for your family life is important to us
• We work data driven. Theses are confirmed or rejected with an A / B test
• Even after the pandemic, we can of course work several days per week on the move
• 30 days of vacation to unwind and relax, plus amenities such as our breakfast muesli bar, fresh organic fruit and drinks for every taste
• Linux or Mac? We leave that up to you!

Full Time