Project Description & Role

K&C is currently looking for a senior DevOps Engineer for a project with one of the leading German brands in the Adventure and Event industry. Our client is building a new SaaS / Operator Solution that allows businesses and start-ups to build and customize their online shops, manage their cash desks, manage invoices and further operational topics without being IT experts.

Your role:

• Design and develop software that improves the availability, scalability and stability of our cloud platform
• Build robust microservices that integrate into our existing cloud landscape
• Build monitoring and alerting solutions to catch problems early and prevent them from happening again
• Increase the robustness, observability, and resilience of our applications and enable teams with operational excellence and custom tooling
• Work with bleeding-edge technologies and concepts such as containerized applications, container orchestration using Kubernetes, service meshes using Istio, among many others

You should be an expert in:

• Agile mindset and solution driven way of thinking
• Self-organized working and learning
• Passion for knowledge sharing with other team members regarding good practices, code quality and tech frameworks
• Background in software engineering for web with a focus on API-based development (REST, gRPC)
• Knowledge of preferably Golang or comparable programming languages (C++, Java)

Nice to have skills would include (at least one or multiple):

• Experience in AWS or other cloud providers
• Experiences with Kubernetes and cloud native concepts
• Understanding of microservices architecture
• Understanding of container virtualization
• Experience in event driven architectures, messaging patterns and Apache Kafka

CLIENT TECH STACK 

Kubernetes (AWS EKS) – Docker – Golang – Terraform – Helm – FluxCD – Azure AD – Oathkeeper – AWS Cognito – Istio – Prometheus – Grafana – PagerDuty – Fluentd – CloudWatch – Apache Kafka (AWS MSK) – PostgreSQL/MariaDB (AWS RDS) – Jaeger distributed tracing – Elastic Search (AWS OpenSearch) – Jenkins – and many more…

APPLIED CONCEPTS

Agile mindset, DevOps – You build it, you run it. – Infrastructure as Code – Continuous Deployment – 12-Factor App – Self-contained Systems – Domain-Driven Design (DDD) – Behavior Driven Development (BDD) – Test-Driven Development (TDD) – Event-driven Architecture – Self-contained Systems – Hexagonal Architecture – Micro Frontends – CI / CD – Contract First – GitOps – federated Single-Sign-On

Why join the K&C team and this project?

• German IT Company with HQ in Munich
• 20+ years in Europe
• Competitive compensation;
• Talented team without hierarchies
• 20 workdays of vacation per year, 15 days of paid sick leave;
• Fulltime remote work possible; as is being based in one of our offices in Kyiv, Krakow, Baku, and Sofia, if you prefer an office environment or hybrid
• flexible working schedule.

Sounds interesting? We are excited to get to know you!