Platform / DevOps Engineer (d/f/m)

RISK IDENT is a dynamic software development company based in Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 2012, our team became one of the market leaders within fraud prevention in the German speaking market in a very short period of time. Today, as an independent company within the OTTO Group RISK IDENT has a strong customer base, the majority of our customers coming from e-commerce, telecommunications, mobility and financial services. We secure more than 80 billion euros of annual turnover against fraud for our customers. We have an innovative SaaS business model with an excellent market position. Our team consists of around 80 people from all over the world with every single one of them loving what they do. We are always on the lookout for new challenges and for smart people to accompany us along the way!

Become the Sherlock Holmes of the web and help our clients to detect the fraudsters among their customers. In this never ending race, we are beating the bad guys with technology!

As a Platform / DevOps Engineer (d/f/m ) you are a member of our team which provides the platform for the latest version of our fraud prevention software FRIDA and DEVICE IDENT. We are looking for someone with a strong background in Linux and Kubernetes. Cloud knowledge is a plus but you should understand how things work behind the curtains. Troubleshooting distributed systems and complex technology stacks are nothing new for you. If you think the team will benefit from your creativity and motivation, take the next step in your career and be part of our growing company. An open mindset and your flexibility to adapt to situations and organize yourself will help you to deal with today's challenges of working remotely.

• Maintain and develop our on-premise Kubernetes implementation.
• Maintain and optimize our core services such as Kubernetes, MongoDB, Kafka and Elasticsearch.
• Automation and configuration management via Terraform, Helm, and Ansible.
• Configuration and optimization of our Monitoring/Metrics infrastructure (Prometheus/Grafana).
• Collaborate with our Development teams to solve challenges around our software product.
• Be part of our OnCall rotation.

• Linux is your choice of operating system (at least in the rack) and you feel comfortable with it.
• Basic understanding of IP networking, Load Balancing, Firewalling.
• You get the concept of container orchestration via Kubernetes and related abstraction layers (We host our stuff on-premise).
• You have deployed and maintained (upgraded) on premises Kubernetes before and know what it takes to make it highly available.
• You are able to deploy an application with high availability to Kubernetes, covering everything from source code to logging and alerting.
• You are able to methodically debug distributed systems.
• "Go" is part of your toolbox (as we have some custom kubernetes operators written in Go).
• Bonus points for experience with JVM applications, MongoDB, Kafka and Elasticsearch.
• You are fluent in English (German is not required).