Our mission:
Are you a motivated DevOps Engineer ready to make an impact by shaping OX Cloud, our fully hosted and managed global email platform?
At Open-Xchange, we develop and deliver open-source communication and collaboration technologies for email and DNS security that connect millions of people worldwide and enable digital sovereignty.
Discover what Open-Xchange offers you:
* We work in a non-hierarchical organization that empowers everyone to take responsibility, stay focused, and contribute directly to the company’s success and customer value.
* We value expertise and continuous professional development. Our professionals work closely with experienced colleagues, take ownership of their work, and continuously expand their skills
* Openness and diversity are core to OX. Different perspectives, backgrounds, and ways of thinking strengthen our collaboration and help us see the bigger picture.
Your team:
The OX Cloud team is at the heart of Open-Xchange to make millions of users worldwide happy by supplying them our open-source products. We collaborate with various engineering teams to automate deployment processes, increase system reliability, and enhance scalability. We drive diverse non-functional feature of our products like availability, reliability, security, and observability in close collaboration with all the other engineering teams.
Right now, we are on a journey towards a more wholeheartedly approach to DevOps and transforming our engineering organization.
Your new job:
* Automate the provisioning of infrastructure, products and configuration with tools like Terraform, Ansible and Helm in collaboration with other engineering teams.
* Run our production environments.
* Operate containerized applications on Kubernetes and consult others with Helm-based deployments.
* Contribute to the management and optimization of storage and database infrastructure.
* Join our on-call rotation to handle incidents and improve overall system reliability.
* Collaborate closely with developers and other teams to ensure smooth integration, delivery and operations across all stages of the product lifecycle.
* Raise the bar for us and bring us to your level in hard engineering skills and/or engineering & product culture.
This is the tech stack you'll be working with:
* Operating system: Linux
* Container orchestration: Kubernetes
* CNCF ecosystem: Prometheus, Grafana
* Automation tools: Terraform, Ansible, Chef
* CI/CD: GitLab CI
* Scripting languages: Python, Shell
* Databases & storage: MariaDB/MySQL, S3
Your background:
* Several years of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Helm, or hands-on experience as a software developer (strong plus).
* Practical experience operating Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
* Contributions to CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab or Jenkins.
* Experience troubleshooting distributed systems running on Linux.
* Familiarity with various databases and storage solutions.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
* Intrinsic motivation to take ownership and a passion for open-source technologies, thriving in a low-hierarchy environment.
* Comfortable working in a remote-first environment with multicultural teams across different time zones.
This is what you get at Open-Xchange:
* The flexibility to work 100% remotely ensures a work environment that suits you best.
* Flexible working hours that allow you to successfully combine your home and family responsibilities with work.
* Getting together in-person for workshops and fun team events.
* Time off to volunteer – and mental health support when you need it.
* We provide financial relief through corporate benefits and a subsidy for ergonomic chairs and desks.
* We can discuss further location-related benefits together in an initial talk.
Join the team:
Join us in our fight for an open internet and deliver added value! Click “Apply now” to submit your application.
Your contact person:
Reach out to Justin (recruiting@open-xchange.com ) from the People Team. He will be able to discuss current opportunities and tell you more about our exciting vision and mission @OX.