ABOUT YOU is a company driven by the passion to develop the best tech products. Currently, we are searching for an experienced and passionate Lead Platform Engineer (m/f/d) to join our team within the ABOUT YOU Commerce Business Unit and work on exciting topics such as scaling our cloud-based infrastructure for the growing customer base in our online shop.

As part of this role, you will form a central team that supports our development teams in effectively managing their infrastructure. This includes assisting with the implementation of new services and acting as consultants for our engineers, helping them choose the most efficient technology for their projects. Additionally, you will be responsible for ensuring that our teams have sensible defaults and access to valuable resources to build upon.

What you will do:

- Lead a world-class team of engineers to ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of our infrastructure.

- Promote practices like continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code.

- Automate and standardize processes to ensure the scalability of our flexible API solutions.

- Take responsibility for the availability and smooth operations of our infrastructure.

- Monitor our infrastructure in integration, staging, and live environments.

- Manage resources and services in a cost-efficient manner.

Who you are:

- At least 5 years of experience in DevOps or related roles.

- Good knowledge of maintaining Unix server infrastructures.

- Experience with major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

- Proficiency in Linux OS and the ability to code in Python.

- Experience using monitoring tools like Sentry, NewRelic, Kibana, or Datadog.

- Understanding and interest in the security aspects of running a cloud infrastructure.

- Eagerness to automate tasks as much as possible.

- You feel comfortable with people management topics

- Fluent in spoken and written English.

Nice to have:

- Coding knowledge in Golang, Python, or PHP.

- Experience using a broad range of AWS technologies such as EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, ElastiCache or CloudWatch.

Additional information:
*Working model:

Due to the upcoming tasks and responsibilities for this position, it is required to work onsite at our headquarters in Hamburg on a weekly basis. Therefore we’ve implemented a hybrid working model that allows us to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays and to work onsite from Tuesday to Thursday.

YOU ARE THE CORE OF ABOUT YOU.

We take responsibility for creating an inclusive and exceptional environment where all genders, nationalities, and ethnicities feel welcomed and accepted exactly as they are. We believe that a diverse workforce essentially contributes to the ABOUT YOU culture. In order to maintain talent and diversity, we emphasize the care for physical health, mental health, and overall well-being. Our values and work ethics essentially contribute to our brand mission: empower acceptance and shape an inclusive, fair, and circular fashion culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal! Thus, we can ensure a faster process and for you it is very easy to upload your application documents. :-)