DevOps / SRE Engineer

About Spark Networks

Spark Networks SE is a leading global dating company with a widening portfolio of premium & freemium apps. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange American under the ticker symbol ‘LOV’, the company was formed in 2017 following the merger between Berlin-based Affinitas GmbH and US-based Spark Networks Inc. From small start-up to the world’s 2nd largest publicly listed dating company with over one million monthly paying subscribers, Spark’s success story is nothing short of remarkable.

Position

• Designing, building, testing, delivering and supporting fully fledged web services or applications
• Working with engineering teams on design & implementation of new rollouts
• Working with engineering teams on design & implementation of large scale systems
• Analytical skills to determine what is going to break and when
• Automating post deploy smoke/integration tests to test and validate production changes
• Acting as an advocate for adoption of best practices in system design and automation standards

Your qualification

• Strong work ethic, self-motivation and good organisation
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment 
• Team-player 
• At least 4 years experience with AWS and containers 
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, building CI/CD, GitOps
• Good knowledge of AWS 
• Development/scripting skills (Golang, python or bash)
• Previous experience and willingness to work on the on-call basis
• Knowledge of Packer, Ansible, MongoDB, PostgresSQL, JVM, Kafka, and RabbitMQ is a plus

What we offer

• 27 holidays p.a.
• Flexi-time (where possible)
• Urban Sports Club membership (subsidized)
• Weekly in-house Yoga class
• Team sporting events
• Іn-house German language class or Babbel subscription
• Free access to Blinkist library
• Monthly training sessions via the ‘Spark Academy’
• Monthly team insight presentations via the ‘Meet the XX’ series
• Leadership training via the ‘Leadership Circle’ series
• Career development plans
• Relocation support (visa and registration)
• Company pension (15% company contribution)
• Cooperation with Berlin nursery (“Kita”) chain (no guarantee for free spot)
• BVG ticket discount (public transport)
• Free account on our dating platforms
• Employee discount program in collaboration with hundreds of brands