Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (Platform)
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Summary
Senior SRE on Scalable Capital's Platform Engineering team, building secure, compliant, scalable cloud building blocks and CI/CD automation so developer teams can ship software quickly and reliably. Core stack: AWS (ECS, Fargate, Lambda, EKS), Terraform, GitHub Actions/Jenkins, Python and Java/Kotlin or Node.js.
- Our team’s mission is to provide secure, compliant and scalable building blocks or automations to enable developers to build workflows that rapidly but reliably ship software
- Scalable Capital was built in the cloud from day one. Our services currently run on various AWS services like ECS, Fargate and Lambda and are distributed across multiple accounts
- We embrace a DevOps culture where the development teams manage their CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure for their services themself. Our Platform Engineering Team focuses on providing everything necessary to build and ship code into these systems fast, security and developer friendly
- Shape the way how Scalable builds micro services in the most performant, secure and cost efficient way
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and understand build and development requirements for our platform
- Design and rollout CICD related improvements paired with internal automation tooling running in ECS, Lambda and EKS
- Develop and AI based supporting tools and libraries
- Mentor and enable our software development teams to further foster our DevOps culture by educating them and providing reusable and unified building blocks which can be used to improve development speed, security, testing and releasing
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, tools and techniques related to platform engineering
- Design and implement best practices around building our infrastructure
- Keep our internal development tooling up to date and support teams with migrating to new technologies
Benefits
- Remote working opportunities - collaborate with your team no matter where you are in Germany: the majority of our jobs can be done working from home. So if you aren’t near one of our physical locations in Germany, check out if your job is eligible remotely
- Join an international and diverse, inclusive community - be part of a network of highly talented, diverse and motivated people, from more than 30 nationalities. We enjoy regular office parties & after work drinks, BBQs in the summer, weekly runs and much more
- Lounge around - take a break to relax on our terrace in Munich or in the Beergarden downstairs in Berlin. Enjoy fresh fruits, soft drinks, and tea daily, and if want, develop your Barista skills with our Espresso machine
- Gear and perks - work with the latest hardware (including a MacBook Pro or equivalent and your choice of headphones). We also support your workplace with the equipment that you need, either in the offices or at home
- Learn and grow - develop yourself further with a personal education budget and in-house knowledge sharing sessions with catered lunch. If you want to learn or improve your German language skills, you will like the free classes right in the office or our support for online classes
- Have an impact - ship features to thousands of users and work with leading financial institutions across Europe on a regular basis. Transform with us the traditional finance industry with the aim of democratizing investment management and brokerage
- Good working knowledge with Python and at least one additional general purpose programming language (Preferably Java/Kotlin or JavaScript/Node.js) and build automations tools
- A passion for automating, improving processes and working together with other developer teams
- Solid understanding of scalable system design principles, distributed systems, and cloud technologies
- A degree in a relevant field of study (e.g. computer science, engineering, sciences) or work experience in a role that typically requires a university degree
- Multiple years of experience with AWS and infrastructure as code (mainly Terraform)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment
- Solid experience with GitHub Actions and Jenkins or similar CICD tools
- Full professional proficiency in English and the ability to communicate concisely in an international English-speaking environment
