Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes / Bare Metal (m/w/d)

About Us

We are 180 creative minds working here in Espelkamp on truly strong solutions for the web of tomorrow. Happiness for us means making life on the web as easy as possible for our customers.

We love web. We breathe code. We rethink hosting.

Our job is to look into the future. What is important to us? We want to make agencies & freelancers even better. Even more productive and efficient. We know their challenges and are partners at eye level. What else is important to us: Web hosting in the 21st century must be high-performance and flexible, but also sustainable. That's why our own data center processes data in a climate-friendly, secure, and efficient way – right on our doorstep. This is how we take responsibility for our actions. Every day.

Your Role

• You will further develop our Kubernetes-based hosting platform and ensure that all systems run – stable, performant, and scalable.
• You will manage bare metal deployments and storage provisioning on bare metal Kubernetes nodes.
• You will contribute your experience to technological decisions, recognize the impact of systemic changes, and create understanding for their impact.
• You will recognize what can be improved – and significantly advance our platform with targeted optimizations and your know-how.
• You are curious, open to new things, and follow current developments in the open-source world and new technologies.

Your Tech Stack & Mindset

• Container: Docker, containerd, cri-o
• Orchestration: Kubernetes
• Deployment: Helm
• Linux: Expert level & system-close
• Storage: OpenEBS, zfs, xfs, CSI
• Tooling: Git, CI/CD, Monitoring (PrometheusStack, etc.)
• Network: CNI, BGP
• Development: Golang, Bash, SPL
• Mindset: Forward-thinking, open, solution-oriented, passionate

*You: "I don't know all the technologies mentioned yet." We: "No problem! We share our knowledge and would like to get to know you."

What We Offer You

• Security & Perspective
  • Permanent contracts, flexible working hours, industry-standard salary, company pension scheme, and 30 days of vacation: We are looking for cool people for long-term cooperation at eye level and want to go through thick and thin with you.
• Geek Paradise
  • Whether Kubernetes, microservices, or React – you can do really cool stuff with us. To help you give your best, you are the admin on your device and have free choice of your hardware and workplace equipment.
• Active Part of the Community
  • We are part of the open-source and Linux community. We make parts of our stack freely available, actively develop open-source projects we use, and sponsor projects and events in the open-source context. And we support your community work.
• Your Development
  • We want you to reach your full potential. We actively support you through further training, courses, and our coaching offers. Do you see an exciting topic that will move you and us forward? Then take the time to deal with it.
• Your Influence
  • We are looking for thinkers! We give your ideas space and are open to new things. This is how we continuously develop as a company. Do you want to make a difference? Get involved and give your thoughts free rein. We live real co-determination – regardless of role and title.
• Health & Well-being
  • You can look forward to offers related to your physical and mental health (like Sportnavi, active break, etc.), our bicycle leasing, and corporate benefits. Of course, we also provide vitamins, caffeine & H2O.

Application Process

1. Receipt of Your Application Your application has been received – what now? Together with the department, we will review your documents as quickly as possible. We will then get back to you promptly with feedback, usually after about 5 days. If we find you and your career interesting, and we have the impression that you could fit in well with your strengths and interests, we would like to get to know you personally.

2. Personal Introduction (On-site or via Teams) We want to learn more about you: What do you enjoy most? What topics excite you? You are welcome to think of and prepare questions about Mittwald. Technical expertise is important to us, but your personality is more important. We want to get to know you as you are – only then can we utilize your strengths effectively.

3. The Next Round The first impression has been confirmed – let's move on! Your conversation partners from the first meeting will now plan a trial work day, which will be tailored entirely to you. We would like to give you an authentic insight into the Mittwald world. You will get to know the scope of tasks, can participate in team meetings, and/or conduct expert discussions on exciting technical topics. So you can be excited! We will conclude the trial work with a feedback session.

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