DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Berlin (cognita Deutschland GmbH)

Your profile
  • DevOps practices are your passion
  • You work with Linux infrastructure on a daily basis
  • You have an Infrastructure-as-Code set of tools of choice, in ideal case including Terraform
  • You know networking, monitoring, databases, AWS, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, ElasticSearch, 12-FactorApp fairly well
  • You can quickly navigate complex infrastructure and enjoy a bit of archaeology at times
  • You work well across multiple teams and you are also able to finish projects on your own
  • You are a great communicator, fluent in English (German is a plus) and you enable your team to find optimal and practicable solutions by actively participating in team discussions and leading meetings
  • With your experience and your strong eye for detail, you find the balance between pragmatism and perfection
  • Your are familiar with agile development (Scrum)
Your tasks
  • Operate core cloud infrastructure (including AWS Lambda, Kubernetes/EKS, PostgreSQL RDS, ElasticSearch)
  • Improve reliability, harden security and reduce operational risks (SRE)
  • Evangelize DevOps practices and culture
  • Document tech stacks, create training materials for developers and teach them
  • Improve/review developers CI/CD code
  • Help debugging issues when others are stuck
  • Develop and maintain our internal CI framework
  • Plan, present and implement additional fundamental infrastructure requirements
  • Host several DevOps related re-occurring meetings
  • You are part of an agile development team in Berlin where your contribution makes a difference and can have a big impact
Why us?
  • straightforward, talented and diverse team
  • modern, well connected office in Berlin Mitte
  • flexible working hours & mobile work
  • Highlights such as team breakfast and weekly desk yoga in the office
  • Fresh fruit twice a week
  • Travel Industry Card for discounted travel & company health card
  • Generous sabbatical policy for long-term employees
  • MacBook, which can be used for private purposes in addition to work
About us
Christian Beilborn and Denis Nordmann founded the ETH Zurich spin-off in 2008. As a full-service provider, cognita develops and operates the topic and media monitoring blueReport as a modern "Software as a Service" (SaaS) solution. The online application is continuously expanded by an in-house development team and allows media reviews and evaluations to be created in no time at all. Currently, more than 60 people are employed at the Berlin and Zurich offices. Ministries, leading companies, associations and organisations, as well as media and communication agencies in Europe rely on blueReport for their daily media monitoring.
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