DevOps Engineer for George (all humans)

Make a difference in the financial life of millions of people: At Erste Digital you are co-creating the digital future, in which better financial health is possible. #believeinyourself

We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.

Over 10 million people across Europe organise their personal finances with George. Where design meets technology, George stands out on an open platform. We invite you to develop this platform with us into the next dimension. We achieve this by empowering people to understand, manage and, last but not least, enjoy one of their most personal things: their money.

For this international customer-oriented banking application, we seek a candidate for the position “DevOps Engineer” for Cloud and on-premise datacentre infrastructure and applications.

What to do:

• Analyse and investigate incidents on a technical level in the cloud and on-premise infrastructure
• Support developers in infrastructure architecture topics
• Inspect and analyse logs (Apache, Tomcat, custom) and correlate information in several logs using tools such as Kibana, CloudWatch
• See the “big picture” of the whole solution to be able to determine the root causes of problems
• Support in performance testing and analyse results to suggest software and infrastructure optimisation
• Support in application sizing and releases from test environments to bringing it to production
• Create and maintain operational documentation.
• Participate in the ongoing initiative to migrate on-premise infrastructure to public cloud
• Setting up and maintaining monitoring of applications for Service Desk teams (Kibana, Prometheus, Grafonnet, OpenTelemetry)
• Investigate and suggest improvements to current infrastructure set up by staying up to date with the latest technologies and infrastructure.
• Do on-call support rotation (1 week on call in 6 to 8 weeks)

You check these boxes:

• Proficient in English
• Experience with:
  • Linux
  • Elastic Search, Kafka, Cassandra
  • Relational databases and SQL queries
  • Experience with AWS(EKS, RDS, ALB, EC2, SG) and many more AWS services
  • Proficient with Kubernetes and helm
  • Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXC)
• Understanding of:
  • Java Application servers / Standalone Java basic configuration
  • HTTP/HTTPS, RESTFul API (JSON)
  • Messaging services/Concepts (MQ, AQ, JMS)
  • Infrastructure as a code principle
  • Code versioning

Why you will like us:

• Because you will be joining a dynamic, international and diverse workplace
• We provide a relaxed, professional environment and all the hardware & software you need to work efficiently (e.g. Laptop, mobile device, licenses...)
• We care for your personal well-being and career development while actively supporting your educational needs
• We communicate and collaborate with a variety of tools including Slack, Confluence and JIRA
• We encourage regular conference visits and multiple chances to shine with George.
• Working from home, virtual office, working while riding a bike. What ever and how ever you do your best work to make George shine, is fine by us.
• A competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted - we are obliged by law to quote the minimum wage of EUR 3.000,- gross per month for this full time position. But this is just a formality, we are more than happy to discuss your actual expectations.

The way we are:

Erste Group considers the diversity of its employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.