Linux DevOps Engineer

About DEGIRO

DEGIRO is a fast growing, online broker available in 18 countries. Currently we are market leader in the Netherlands and a top tier player in Europe. Our trading platform is internally created and maintained and therefore we are always looking for expansion in our tech team.

Position

We are looking for a Linux DevOps Engineer to join us in our Amsterdam office and assist the team in designing, developing and implementing solutions that meet the business needs.

You will join a team with a wide range of responsibilities, from data centre planning and management to supporting and troubleshooting applications. The goal of your team is to offer support and be responsible for all the layers from the bare metal machines, operating system and sometimes application support.

Our environment consists of 400+ servers, including physical servers, virtual machines and containers in multiple datacenters across Europe.

What you will be responsible for:

• Design, develop and implement solutions that enable the transition of our corporate services to the private cloud using Infrastructure as code 
• Improve the performance and reliability of our platform and internal services 
• Identify and reduce technical debt by building, enhancing and maintaining tooling and scripts to automate repetitive tasks
• Ensure availability of effective monitoring and alerting capability throughout our platform 
• Collaborate in the design and development of business-critical systems to meet business needs and respond to/anticipate technological advancements
• Share the on-call rotation to handle outages and be an escalation contact for incidents

Your qualification

• At least 3-years experience working in a DevOps position using code to build and maintain large, complex and scalable system infrastructures
• Knowledge in working with RESTful APIs, stream-based and general service and event/message-queue oriented architectures
• At least 1-year experience with Kubernetes, EKS and etc in production
• Experience with designing, developing, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, Helm, Ansible and etc.)
• Experience with Linux administration, networking, troubleshooting
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language. For example Python, Bash, Perl or PowerShell
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK)
• Ability to understand developers’ needs and explain complex concepts to stakeholders

Will be a plus

• Experience with Openshift/OKD (installation, maintenance, troubleshooting)
• Experience with distributed storage systems (Ceph/Rook) 
• Knowledge of base concepts of Istio (experience is a strong plus)
• Knowledge about GItOps concept, hands-on experience with ArgoCD
• Experienced with VMware (vSphere, vCenter)

What we offer

• Personal and professional development with access to relevant training and certifications
• Opportunities for career development 
• 25 paid days leave
• Annual performance bonus 
• Additional allowance for home office and home office culture 
• Additional health insurance Luxe package (covering children under 18, dental and vision care)
• Best Doctors’ health insurance providing access to the best medical treatment worldwide
• Multisport card with access to many different facilities
• Referral bonus
• Everything included in the regular benefits package (see below)

The basics you shouldn’t live without:

• Fruit and coffee at the office
• Team activities and monthly Friday drinks (once we are back at the office) 
• Like-minded colleagues with whom you can talk about your passion for Finance
• Modern and friendly work environment
• Flexible working opportunities
• Company laptop and other materials

Are you relocating? This is what you can expect:

• Relocation ticket
• Become a part of the “Buddy” system where a colleague will help make your first few weeks easier, share information about the company culture and the city, and help you out with any questions you might have
• Apartment in the city centre, close to the office
• Two round-trip flight tickets per year to your hometown

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of DEGIRO.