Lead DevOps Engineer - Payment (m/f/d)

We are hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer for our client, an international e-commerce group with more than 45 million monthly active users headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Join our client’s team and drive exciting topics such as scaling the cloud-based infrastructure across multiple online retailers or the always-increasing customer base in our online shop.

The Payments team is responsible for the complete payment lifecycle, from customers placing their orders within the Checkout to handling the refund of a returned item weeks later. The Payment team’s applications maintain range from high traffic & fault tolerance API hubs to security-conscious and reliable backend processing engines.

• Ensure availability, performance, and scalability of our infrastructure
• Drive the use of practices like continuous integration, continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Ensure the scalability of our flexible API solution by automating and standardizing the processes
• Take over responsibility for the availability and smooth operations of our infrastructure
• Supervise and monitor our infrastructure in integration, staging, and live environments
• Manage the resources and services in a cost-efficient manner

• At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps or DevOps-related roles
• Capable of leading a team of DevOps Engineers
• Good knowledge of maintaining unix server Infrastructures
• Experience with one of the major cloud providers, e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
• Experience using different monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, Sentry, NewRelic, Kibana, …)
• Understanding and interest in the security aspects of running a cloud infrastructure
• Experience in caching systems like Redis
• Eager to automate as much as possible
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written

Nice to have:

• Coding knowledge in PHP
• Experience using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc.)

• Hybrid working
• Fresh fruit daily
• Sports courses
• Free access to code.talks
• Exclusive employee discounts
• Language courses
• Company parties
• Mobility subsidy
• State-of-the-art technology
• Central location
• Flexible working hours
• Company pension
• Professional training
• Dog-friendly office
• Feedback culture
• Job bikes