DevOps Engineer

About Wimdu

We are Wimdu, one of the world’s leading online marketplaces for private accommodation. We believe passionately in the power of travel and strive each day to make quality travel experiences more accessible to everyone. With over 350,000 properties in more than 150 countries, Wimdu offers travellers authentic and affordable accommodation, from city apartments in Barcelona, to chic studios in Paris, spacious lofts in New York and beach houses on the exotic island of Bali.

Remembered travel experiences are invaluable, which is why we connect travellers and hosts worldwide. Wherever you may travel, you are guaranteed to create long lasting memories with Wimdu. We operate our business under the idea that it is the small, local discoveries that make the holidays something special. Our apartments are ideal starting points for experiencing the many different facets of a city, whether it is in large metropolises such as Paris, Barcelona, or Rome, or in smaller, more relaxed cities.

Wimdu also lets you rent out your own place to those looking for a place to stay. Listing with us is free, and you can make money from your extra space whilst helping others explore the world.

Position

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to improve the stability and performance of our site whilst enabling our developers to make feature improvements quickly and reliability. We need to engineer our way past classic problems: monitoring, alerting, scaling, and automation.

Your Tasks:

• Build, automate, and manage key parts of the global Wimdu production environment
• Help define a solid strategy for ensuring future growth of our platform, and help with our migration to AWS
• Optimize existing systems and components for performance and stability
• Forge close relationships with development teams, and empower them to take ownership of their own parts of the infrastructure in a SOA environment
• Collaborate with developers and QA engineers on release processes, deployment and scaling
• Build and maintain core infrastructure components like monitoring services and automation recipes that our development teams can use
• Proactively monitor end-to-end system performance (client to database) to identify bottlenecks and potential failures, and help developers improve their code based on your analysis
• Help with maintaining our office infrastructure and lend an occasional hand to colleagues needing IT support
• Assume strong ownership for what you build — including being on-call for it

Your qualification

• 3+ years experience managing a high traffic consumer-facing website
• Expert level Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) system administration skills, and understanding of TCP/IP and networking concepts (e.g. firewalls, load balancers, routing, DNS)
• Experience with cloud-based and on premise systems, provisioning tools, virtualization and monitoring
• You are very familiar with AWS (AWS Certifications are a big plus)
• You have first experience with Puppet
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with test automation
• Experience with Agile (esp. Kanban)
• Ideally, development experience in Ruby, Java, Python, Shell or other high-level languages
• You are open, communicative, and enjoy working as part of a diverse team

What we offer

If you seek to work in a friendly and supportive environment with a high performance culture and many learning opportunities, then we are looking for you!

We offer international start-up spirit based in the heart of Germany's capital. Monthly events, a chilled-out work environment and fresh drinks and fruits will enrich your days as a part of our fantastic team. Of course you will be able to choose your OS freely, while working with up to date equipment.