Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

<p>We're looking for a motivated and driven <strong>Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)</strong> to join our team.</p> <p>Do you want to play a key role in shaping our infrastructure while ensuring security best practices? Are you passionate about automation, cloud technologies, and empowering development teams? Then this is your chance to have a direct impact on our success!</p> <h3 id="What-we-do"><strong>What we do</strong></h3> <p>Our team provides the tools, infrastructure, expertise, and best practices that enable software engineering teams to develop excellent products and rapidly ship them. Our goal is to make Flix a company where tech teams can efficiently deliver secure, robust, and efficient applications with minimal operational overhead. We continuously reflect on our work and adapt new technologies to stay ahead. Collaboration and trust are at the core of everything we do.</p> <h3><strong>Your Tasks – Paint the world green</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Own and build our cloud infrastructure:</strong> Design, deploy, monitor, and maintain our infrastructure on <span><span>AWS</span></span>, including multiple Kubernetes clusters, using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).</li> <li><strong>Automate everything:</strong> Improve efficiency through automation, ensuring infrastructure is fully reproducible and scalable.</li> <li><strong>Enhance security:</strong> Leverage <span>AWS</span> Security Tools (e.g., Security Hub, Macie, GuardDuty) to implement best security practices.</li> <li><strong>Support <span><span>CI</span></span>/CD:</strong> Work with GitLab <span>CI</span>/CD (or similar frameworks) to ensure smooth and secure deployments.</li> <li><strong>Develop ops-related solutions:</strong> Use Python and Bash to create automation scripts and tools.</li> <li><strong>Guide and educate:</strong> Support and enable teams to fully utilize our DevOps stack.</li> <li><strong>Optimize security:</strong> Work with OAuth, <span><span>WAF</span></span>, <span>AWS</span> Config, OpenSearch, and security policies.</li> <li><strong>Ensure reliability:</strong> Troubleshoot issues, optimize monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog), and contribute to disaster recovery strategies.</li> <li><strong>Be part of on-call rotation:</strong> Maintain high availability and ensure system uptime while ensuring work-life balance.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Your Profile – Ready to hop on board</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Strong experience as a <strong>Senior DevOps Engineer</strong>.</li> <li>Proficiency in <span>AWS</span> (<span>WAF</span>, Lambda, Config, OpenSearch, Security Hub, Macie, GuardDuty is a plus).</li> <li>Experience deploying infrastructure using <strong>Terraform</strong> (or similar <span><span>IaC</span></span> tools).</li> <li>Expertise in <strong>Kubernetes</strong> and <strong>Docker</strong>.</li> <li>Strong knowledge of <strong>Python</strong>.</li> <li>Experience with <strong><span>CI</span>/CD pipelines</strong> (GitLab preferred, but GitHub Actions, Travis, etc., are also fine).</li> <li>Basic knowledge of <strong>OAuth</strong>.</li> <li>Strong autonomy and ability to drive initiatives independently.</li> <li>Experience or strong interest in security practices.</li> <li>Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.</li> <li><strong>Fluent English</strong> (spoken and written).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span>AWS</span> Certified Security – Specialty certification.</li> <li>Experience with Istio, GitOps tools (e.g., FluxCD, ArgoCD), or improving Developer Experience.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Our Perks – More than just a job</strong></h3> <ul> <li>You have an impact. <span lang="EN-US"><span>With innovation and smart technology, </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>we are</span><span> creating the easiest way to travel. We want your ideas </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>and give you autonomy to make them reality.</span></span><span>​</span></li> <li>Flix is flexible. Organize your own schedule with trust-based hours and up to 60 days of working from (m)anywhere. We are an office-first company, and we encourage all employees to come regularly to their local office.</li> <li>Travelling is our passion. <span lang="EN-US"><span>Discover the world with your free </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>Flix rides and bring along your friends and family for half </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>price.</span></span></li> <li>Teamwork makes the dream work. <span lang="EN-US"><span>Our </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>FlixTeam</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span> has people </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>from over 80 different nations. We work in a multicultural </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>environment where we can challenge and support each other.</span></span></li> <li>We're not only green in color. <span lang="EN-US"><span>We’re</span><span> building for the long </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>