fortrabbit

Help building and extending our hosting platform on a technical level using modern cloud technologies. Please only apply when you think to have the right cultural fit, the skills and the experience for this.
 

Core responsibilities

• Strategic thinking: Shape future features
• Development: Help building a new platform version

Why to join

• Join a small team to make a big impact
• Be part of a technology focused company culture
• Research continuously, acquiring knowledge
• Enjoy good working conditions
• Freedom of time
• Freedom of location
• Growth opportunities

Please consider

• Strictly no agencies!
• This is a full time offering, half-time also possible
• This is a REMOTE position
• Headquarter is in Berlin Germany
• We will be looking at your intro
  
• We will be looking at your StackOverflow and GitHub profiles
• This does not matter: race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical disability, unemployed …

Your skills

• Think like a developer
• Practical mindset
• Eager to learn new things
• Courage for responsibly
• Team player
• 5+ years of working experience in this or related jobs
• Practical experience with Kubernetes
  
• Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, IAM, DynamoDB, S3)
• Linux administrator by heart (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Good understanding of Linux security strategies
• Good understanding of container operations (LXC)
• Track record building scalable architectures
• Experience with web service operations (Apache, HAproxy, NGINX, FPM)
• Experience with peripheral operations (memcached, queueing, centralized logging, elastic search, bind, ...)
• Experience with RDBMS, specifically with administering MySQL
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Your nice to haves

• 2+ years experience of working on a Systems Engineer position
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform vs. CloudFormation
• Knowledge of GoLang
  
• Experience in backend development
  
• Puppet / Chef / Ansible - at least one
• Some experience with the PHP
• Knowledge in other tech, languages & frameworks (Python, Ruby, Node, ..)
• A public record of mentorship, writing, public speaking, or OSS contribution
• You speak German
• Startup experience

• Maintenance: Help keeping the current infra running (security updates & review)
• Operations: Troubleshoot issues (review & restart failed services)
• Automation: Increase system efficiency & lower the human intervention
• Tuning: Evaluate performance, identify bottlenecks, implement solutions
• Security: Oversee security, backup and redundancy strategies
• 2nd level support: Help clients

We are not looking for

• Java skills
• Oracle certificates
• MS Office skills
• AWS junior associate level
• Corporate environments experience