DevOps Engineer - Cloud Platform Team

FlixBus

FlixBus

Software Engineering

Lisbon, Portugal

Posted 6+ months ago

We're looking for a motivated and driven DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team who will help us drive the company to the next level, and have the most direct influence on our success.

Curious to know what we are working on?

The team provides tools, infrastructure, expertise and good practices, enabling software engineering teams to focus on developing excellent products and rapidly shipping them. Our goal is to make Flix a company where tech teams can quickly deliver secure, robust and efficient applications with minimal operational knowledge. We have a constant process of reflecting on our current work, and adapting new practices and technologies. Our daily work is built on trust and collaboration.

Your Tasks – Paint the world green

  • Build our cloud! Design, deploy, monitor and maintain our infrastructure that hosts flix.com and the services it depends on, which is comprised of multiple Kubernetes clusters on AWS (provisioned with Terraform).
  • Don't repeat yourself! Automate everything and use Infrastructure as Code.
  • Speak freely! Develop ops-related solutions, preferably in languages like Bash or Python.
  • Go team! Educate and support other teams to enable them to fully utilize our stack.
  • Fix it for everyone! Contribute to open-source projects and upstream repositories for code we use.
  • Decisions, decisions... Evaluate interesting new technologies and come up with strategies to implement them.
  • Don't panic! Spot and troubleshoot problems using our monitoring systems (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog) and use your insights to improve our disaster recovery plan.
  • Be alert! Participate in our 24/7 on-call rotation, which ensures our systems’ uptime as well as the off-call team members' downtime.

Your Profile – Ready to hop on board

  • Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer
  • Experience deploying infrastructure via Terraform or similar technologies
  • Knowledge of CI/CD
  • Experience with a public cloud
  • Experience in an agile organization
  • Good technical communication skills
  • Very good command of English

Nice to have

  • Experience with GitOps tools like FluxCD or ArgoCD
  • Experience with AWS, Linux, Kubernetes, Istio, Datadog
  • Experience in improving Developer Experience

Our Perks – More than just a job

  • You have an impact. With innovation and smart technology, we are creating the easiest way to travel. We want your ideas and give you autonomy to make them reality.
  • Flix is flexible. Organize your own schedule, and balance work between the office and home as it’s best for you. We give you trust-based hours and a flexible smart working policy.
  • Travelling is our passion. Discover the world with your free Flix rides and bring along your friends and family for half price.
  • Teamwork makes the dream work. Our FlixTeam has people from over 80 different nations. We work in a multicultural environment where we can challenge and support each other.
  • We're not only green in color. We’re building for the long term, and that means protecting our planet. We constantly test new green technologies and compensate for the CO2 after all our business travel since 2018.
  • Your well-being is important to us. To treat your mind and body we will give you a competitive paid time off package, mental health support including 1:1 consultations with a psychologist, and a neat discount on UrbanSportsClub memberships.

Want to rewrite the history of mobility with us? Then join our ride and apply now. We're excited to hear from you!


Flix – A place to enjoy work and have an impact

The future of transportation is Green. Here at Flix Tech, the R&D group, we develop software with the brightest minds from around the world to engineer new experiences for our millions of customers across our apps and websites. Every day we solve challenging problems, like how to scale rapidly around the world and how to make an experience that delights our customers. We have a culture of sharing ideas, contributing to open source projects and being an active member in our technical communities.

Flix is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy and gender identity), national, social or ethnic origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, competence and merit.