The hiring company is a market leader in car rental comparison services. Since 2016, the team in Augsburg has been dedicated to helping customers find the best rental car deals while providing expert support for any inquiries or issues.
The company’s IT teams focus on continuously improving the usability and efficiency of the comparison platform, as well as streamlining customer service interactions. Combining the agility of a startup with the stability of a well-established market leader, the company offers an exciting work environment characterized by e-commerce dynamics, agile processes, short decision-making paths, and strong team collaboration.
Location: Augsburg, Germany.
Type of contract: Permanent onsite.
Your tasks:
1. Team collaboration: You will strengthen the existing team with your expertise as a DevOps Engineer and work hand in hand with developers on scaling the systems in a fast-growing environment. You will also support monitoring and analyzing applications.
2. Taking ownership: You will manage and set up the servers using centralized configuration via Saltstack, contribute significantly to the further development of the DevOps area, and help implement new process structures.
3. Improving products: You will be responsible for the setup, maintenance, and expansion of servers in the entire car rental domain, and implement backup and monitoring strategies as part of your daily tasks.
4. Bringing projects to life: You will enhance the deployment processes (Continuous Integration) and take on the customization and creation of automation as well as automated system configurations (scripting).
Requirements
5. Practical experience: Initial professional experience as a system administrator in the area of Debian Linux and rollout systems such as Saltstack, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef. Ideally, you have had first contact with programming languages like Python or PHP.
6. Tech Stack: Good knowledge in working with the Shell and configuring NGINX, PHP-FPM, and MySQL (replication, backup, etc.). Basic understanding of network infrastructure and routing (firewall, VLAN, routing, etc.).
7. Digital mindset: Interest in learning Elasticsearch and Redis, along with enthusiasm and knowledge for Docker-based deployment environments is desirable.
8. Drive and spirit: Strong sense of quality, hands-on mentality, enjoyment of development, excellent communication skills, team spirit, and high motivation.
9. Language skills: Fluent German (business level) and good English skills.
Benefits
10. You can get to the office easily:Central location directly at Augsburg main station in the Helio (with shopping, fitness, bowling and cinema right in the building). Bright and modern offices offer space for creativity, outdoor work and fun at the table football.
11. The company move you forward:Individual development and training opportunities through the strong and sustainable growth in specialist or management careers. The company also promotes your development with internal and external professional training as well as regular feedback discussions and personal coaching in order to identify and develop your strengths and potential.
12. Your ideas are important to the company and will be implemented quickly:Independent, agile work while contributing your own ideas. Short decision-making processes and release cycles are a matter of course for the team.
13. The company appreciates your commitment:unlimited contracts and attractive remuneration with annual bonuses for special successes. There are vouchers for numerous company products and a subsidized company pension on top.
14. The company equips you:A workstation with a powerful laptop, two additional screens and VPN access is available from the first day of work. Are you looking for individual equipment such as an ergonomic mouse or noise-canceling headphones? No problem!.
15. Here you can feel good:Free drinks - as it should be for Augsburg residents, also Spezi - are chilled in every office. Excellent coffee, cocoa, muesli and fresh fruit provide energy. Several times a month the company invites you to lunch together and order pizza, eat burgers or go to bars!
16. Besides the work, they are a great team:visits to the beer garden and Plärrer, drinkouts and legendary summer and Christmas parties. They also organize joint sports rounds, whether for football, bouldering or yoga.