Job description
Description
Are you passionate about building a cloud infrastructure platform to meet business requirements?
Are you able to demonstrate a mix of technical skills, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities?
Are you continuously learning and looking for adoption of new technologies?
If the answers to the above questions are yes, then this role could be ideal for you!
We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team - where you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure solutions. Your day-to-day work will be alongside other DevOps Engineers in close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and enhancements. This also includes continually evaluating and optimizing the cloud platform infrastructure to improve performance, reduce costs, and enhance security.
Requirements
What you will do
Striving to build out the company’s cloud infrastructure in line with the technical vision
Help to shape GRID’s technological landscape together with experienced colleagues
Developing and improving existing infrastructure and delivery process
Clearly communicating technical approaches with technical teams as well as the wider business
Taking pride in building stable, scalable systems and maintaining a high degree of infrastructure uptime, both for production and development systems
Your skills will include
Minimum of 2 years of commercial experience in DevOps or related fields
A self-starting attitude with the ability to think on their feet and take the initiative to get things done
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment
Passionated with building scalable cloud-based infrastructure based on AWS
Implement infrastructure provisioning with using of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) tools
Experience in running Kubernetes clusters
Hands-on experience with CI/CD, such as GitHub Actions (GitLab CI)
Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, performance, and reliability.
Enthusiastic in writing clean and modular code that is easy to read, maintain, update, and scale
Transparent about system outages, errors, and mistakes and see them as a way to learn and improve
Being able to work the CET time zone
Nice to have:
Experience working with microservices and a strong understanding of the benefits and challenges of working with this architectural pattern
Experience working with software teams using similar technologies (Go, Kotlin/JVM, TypeScript)
Advanced level of hands-on experience with the Linux ecosystem
Experience in using Prometheus / Grafana for monitoring software and infrastructure performance
Experience of running large MySQL and PostgreSQL instances at scale
Extensive experience working with distributed systems running messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
Benefits of working at GRID
Luxmed - private health insurance
Multisports card (gym/ workout class membership)
It’s Complicated - mental health support
Flexible working conditions
Co-working space
Company-wide team events
Work travel opportunities with travel insurance
Training and development budget
English lessons
Company equipment
About our culture
Flexibility: Work from the place that inspires and motivates you the most! From our awesome Berlin/ Wroclaw offices to the comfort of your own home. Meet up in person with your colleagues every so often, making use of the travel opportunities GRID offers
Sustainability: We’re not a typical start-up. We want our employees to be rested and able to perform. We offer a generous vacation allowance (28+ days a year) and the opportunity to speak with professional counsellors to support mental health - covered by the business
Pragmatic: GRID thrives on being rational, allowing us to make the best decisions, rather than keeping to rigid processes and procedures that don’t work well for us
Fostering growth: Empowering employees who are determined to grow by providing a self-development budget and strong career advancement opportunities. Support from your teammates to guide and encourage you to grow in your desired professional field
Company culture: We believe a diverse industry is best served with an inclusive and diverse workforce. We have people based in over 24 countries, with recent employee surveys showing over 98% workplace satisfaction
Impactful: With a robust CI/CD process, and a full suite of automated tests, our engineers ship daily, allowing you to make an impact on the product from day one with peace of mind
Agile & Inclusively: We’ve developed our own kanban-based way of working that is constantly being improved and adapted by the self organizing product-engineering teams. Opinions and ideas are valued by all
Quality: Achieved by ensuring detailed stories and epics, high test coverage, a thorough code-review process, consciously taking on technical debt and an open culture of sharing opinions
Organized: We strive for considered decisions, creating software that lasts. We document them in decision records, which any engineer in any team can drive
About GRID
Founded in 2018 in Berlin, GRID offers the GRID Data Platform to the esports & games industry. Specialized in in-game, play-by-play data, GRID curates data for game developers and tournament organizers and leverages its data platform to unlock the potential of the right holders’ data assets for the purposes of storytelling, fan engagement, and integrity.
GRID’s official data partnerships cover multiple partnered rights holders (data sources), and integrated commercial data consumers, covering 15+ game titles. The partners’ list includes industry leaders such as BLAST Premier, PGL, WePlay Esports, Riot Games (VALORANT), and Krafton (PUBG).
If you have the ambition and desire to work at the forefront of cutting-edge industry projects, then GRID is the place for you.
Apply today to find out more and begin your journey!
