Position: DevOps Engineer
Company: X1 Group
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

scoutbee (scoutbee.com) is a smart German startup, founded in 2015 by purchasing, operations experts and German engineers. It aspires to simplify scouting suppliers. The aim is to improve the transparency of your supplier network. Guys understand the complexities and the tedious, manual process in scouting and sourcing suppliers. They crave to provide more transparency and insights on suppliers. So, they built a software as a service suite, powered by Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to make it easy for people that need the right product to find the right supplier with the right product — in a couple of weeks...not a few months. That’s what scoutbee call Smarter Supplier Discovery.

You’ll be a part of a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our environments and the scoutbee codebase. Join us in supporting customers and partners in the effective implementation and automation of our software products lifecycle!

REQUIRED SKILLS
— Experience with Nginx, HAProxy, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform or similar technologies
— Experience with CI/CD, build configuration languages, package managers and installers, as well as automated build tools
— Good Knowledge in logging infrastructure, alerting and monitoring tools
— Solid background in config management systems
— Strong programming skills
— Enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude
— Ability to deliver quickly and iterate fast
— At least Intermediate level of spoken English

BENEFITS
— Build the product in direct collaboration with the founding and C-level team from Germany
— As an early team member, your work will have a lot of impacts and you’ll help shape the culture of the company
— Work remotely from any location
— Health insurance with premium-level clinics
— Covered 20 days of vacations and 10 days of sick leave
— Last but not least — fair compensation for your efforts

RESPONSIBILITIES
— Respond to scoutbee availability incidents and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents
— Think about repetitive, inefficient and time-consuming things people are doing and finding an automated solution for it
— Maintain programmable infrastructure and maximize the availability of the workloads that run on it
— Use your on-call shift to prevent incidents from ever happening
— Automate running our infrastructure (Terraform, Salt, Kubernetes and other tools)
— Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages
— Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible
— Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
— Document all the things so you don’t need to learn the same thing twice
— Conduct post-incident reviews