Devops Engineer (hybrid)

Engineering · Winnipeg, Canada

Job description

     

Global Savings Group (GSG) is Europe’s leading shopping rewards and recommendation company.

Our mission is to create rewarding moments for consumers and empower them to make the best shopping decisions in a smart, fair, and enjoyable way. To achieve that, we run market-leading platforms that provide our users with the best savings, cashback, deals, shopping inspiration, and trustworthy reviews from real users.

We have over 70 nationalities represented among 1000+ talented colleagues spanning 10 countries, welcoming very diverse backgrounds which range from tech enthusiasts to online marketers, key account managers, or editors.

With us, you will be able to work on projects with an international footprint, leaving your mark in the industry and becoming a true driver of change.

About this role : 

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer (f/m/x) that joins our Engineering team to strengthen our IT Department. Here, you will join our Operations team and work alongside a highly skilled group of Linux/Web System Administrators.

  • You will work closely with our in-house and external development teams
  • You will design, deploy, operate, maintain, and lifecycle applications and infrastructure to help keep our momentum rolling
  • Furthermore, you will also work with external providers to manage resources used by various teams


Responsibilities:

  • Orchestrate Linux and container-centric capacity and applications
  • Support the ongoing operations of existing projects
  • Design and deploy new projects and infrastructure
  • Understand, avoid, and address points-of-failure in complex distributed applications
  • Ensure availability, security and performance of business critical applications
  • Optimise costs and providing "best fit" for highly dynamic workloads

Your Profile:

  • Being familiar with DevOps and SRE approaches
  • Innovator with strong opinions, quick problem-solving abilities, and a results-oriented attitude
  • Be Cloud Native application admin with experience running production workloads on major public cloud providers
  • Believe in solving problems; not treating symptoms
  • Having extensive experience with various scripting languages
  • Having extensive experience managing Infrastructure as Code
  • Being comfortable working both independently and with a team to accelerate project timelines
  • Working with Linux, Containers, and container orchestration platforms daily
  • Experienced with version control software (Git)
  • Deeply familiar with Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, and routing
  • Experienced with continuous integration, continuous delivery, and versioned release software (Gitlab / Jenkins)
  • Deeply committed to constant improvement
  • Having excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Bonus points if you are/have: 

  • Thrilled by the idea of orchestrating and administering projects on massive scales
  • Familiar with infrastructure testing: You're able to quickly understand the root cause of a problem and identify a strategy to prevent reoccurrence
  • Experienced with application middleware and highly distributed applications
  • A deep understanding of Linux systems, you know how the kernel works and how to better optimise for highly targeted workloads
  • Experienced with database platforms covering Relational, Columnar, Timeseries, Document, and more
  • Experienced with a multitude of caching strategies and how to implement them
  • A deep understanding of vendor independent multi-cloud workload management and disaster recovery
  • Worked with various application monitoring and performance analysis tools
  • Deeply familiar with MVC web application architecture
  • Understand the 12-factor app approach


Our Benefits:

  • A culture that cherishes your individual and professional development
  • An open-minded team that embraces new ideas, perspectives, and methodologies
  • Flexible hybrid working scheme with the possibility of working from abroad for up to 6 weeks
  • Cloud-based company
  • 32 days of paid vacation + your birthday off
  • Global and Local get-togethers
  • Possibility of taking a sabbatical after 2 years in the company
  • Access to training and self-development learning platforms with up to 2.5 hours a week of your working hours

Are you up for it?
We’re looking forward to receiving your CV in English.


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At Global Savings Group, we want to ensure that all employees can thrive in an inclusive environment. Our employment opportunities are open to every gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, ability, place of origin, or socioeconomic status. We remain committed to a culture of diversity, equity and belonging, where all employees are welcomed, respected, connected, and engaged. 

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