Sr. DevOps Engineer

**Help us bring people and businesses together**

Our SaaS platform enables multi-location brands and businesses to boost their online presence in a rapidly evolving world. From big to small, from Adidas to ZenPark, our client base contains some of your favourite brands as well, we bet.

**The Past, Present & Future**

**The Past**: Founded in 2013 by David Federhen and Florian Hübner, two longtime friends with a vision to improve customer experience across the online and offline worlds, they created a platform that connected companies with local customers in the digital-first moment.

**The Present**: We're on a mission **to put every single business on the map**, and believe every business deserves success, regardless of size or location. Simply put, our location marketing platform exists to help our customers get found online and connect with customers through search, discovery, engagement and conversion.

**The Future**:We're a growing company with a bright future. We have established ourselves as a rising thought leader through the introduction of Location Performance Optimization (LPO). Our AI strategy is gaining momentum and it's setting us apart in the market. Our agentic AI 'UB-I' moves us from features and functions to business outcomes. UB-I will work 24/7 to optimize location performance, driving engagement, visibility and, most importantly, measurable results. As AI changes search far beyond traditional SEO results, we are at the forefront of enabling our customers to reach theirs in this new era. We have a passionate and diverse team, a comprehensive, intuitive platform and a clear vision for the future. We're looking for talented, passionate people, with an AI-first mindset, (like you \uD83D\uDC4B) to join us on our journey.

**You and us**

We are more than 400 Uberallers, with 50+ different nationalities in 30+ countries, who live and breathe our core values:
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- DEMONSTRATE PASSION & PERFORMANCE

✊ BE BOLD & DRIVE CHANGE

\uD83D\uDE80 BE CUSTOMER OBSESSED

**About the Role**

We are looking for a proactive and skilled **_DevOps Engineer_** with **_3+ years of hands-on experience_**_ _to join our growing engineering team. You'll be working closely with a small team of four engineers to build, maintain, and scale our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack. We value collaboration, strong communication, and a growth mindset: you'll be expected to contribute ideas, give and receive feedback, and work independently when needed.

**Your Responsibilities**:

- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure primarily on **AWS**, with a strong focus on **EC2, RDS, OpenSearch,** and** EKS**.
- Manage the **Kubernetes** clusters running our microservices (we have over a hundred in production) as well as the legacy EC2-based platform.
- Build and maintain **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)** using **Terraform** and **Ansible**.
- Improve and develop our observability stack.
- Collaborate closely with developers and other team members to ensure smooth CI/CD and release processes.
- Identify opportunities for automation and optimization in deployment and infrastructure management.
- Document processes, infrastructure, and decisions clearly and effectively.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response when required.

**Your Profile**:

- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps or similar role.
- Deep experience with **AWS services**, especially **EC2, RDS, EKS**, and **OpenSearch**.
- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with **Kubernetes** and related tooling (we use Helm, Kustomize and FluxCD, but we value knowing and adhering to the GitOps practices more than the specific tools).
- Strong proficiency in **Terraform** and **Ansible** for infrastructure automation.
- Database knowledge (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
- Familiarity with observability tools like **Prometheus, Thanos, Sentry, Loki, Grafana**, and **ElasticSearch**.
- Experience in CI/CD tools.
- ** Bash** or other **shell scripting**knowledge
- Nice-to-have: Experience with GitLab CI and GitLab in general.
- Nice-to-have: Familiarity with the JVM.
- Nice-to-have: Experience in cost optimization on AWS.
- Nice-to-have: Exposure to compliance/security best practices in DevOps.
- Nice-to-have: Having worked with Istio or other service meshes.

**Your Soft Skills & Mindset**:

- Highly **proactive** and self-motivated; able to identify and address issues before they escalate.
- ** Strong communication skills**, both verbal and written. We are a remote and distributed team, so we focus on effective and asynchronous communication.
- Comfortable working **collaboratively** within a distributed team, but also capable of driving tasks **independently**.
- Open to **giving and receiving feedback**, and eager to grow with the team.
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail and commitment to high-quality work.

**What we offer**:
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