DevOps Engineer

Here at Rakuten Kobo Inc. we offer a casual working start-up environment and a group of friendly and talented individuals. Our employees rank us highly in terms of commitment to work/life balance. We realize that for our people to be innovative, creative and passionate they need to feel valued and supported. We believe in rewarding all our employees with competitive salaries, performance based annual bonuses, stock options and training opportunities.   
  

If you’re looking for a company that inspires passion, personal, and professional growth – join Kobo and come help us on our mission of making reading lives better. 
 

The Role:

Rakuten Kobo Inc. is currently looking for a talented DevOps Engineer to join our operations team at our Germany office in Darmstadt with remote option. You will work closely with a highly talented team of individuals and apply your knowledge of scripting, best practices, tools and technologies in an Agile Development Environment. The successful candidate will be a highly adaptable team player with a positive, supportive attitude, and a passion for delivering quality software. Our ideal candidate is a generalist who has previously fulfilled different roles.
 

Candidates must be able to legally work in the EU and be fluent in English.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage the infrastructure
• Develop pipelines and setups to automate builds and deployments and other tasks
• Write, maintain, troubleshoot Kubernetes
• Write and maintain monitoring, log aggregation and APM setup (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
• Basic system provisioning and operations
• Patch & update management
• Production Deployments and Configurations
• Collaborate with other teams on projects and provide recommendations support and guidance, e.g. for infrastructure and CI/CD
• Maintain 24/7 availability for responsible systems and participate in paid on-call rotation

The Skillset:

Required:

• 3+ years of Linux experience
• 3+ years of system administration, networking, automation, monitoring
• Experience with cloud technologies (GCP)
• A solid understanding of Microservices architectures, containerization, isolation and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, docker compose, helm charts)
• A solid understanding of system monitoring and tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
• Experience in CI/CD (Github actions, Gitlab runners, Jenkins)
• Experience in system automation programming (e.g. Bash, Python, Yaml/Json)
• Experience with Linux/Unix for deployment, automation and troubleshooting
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)
• A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts; understands principles of routing, client/server programming, the design of consistent network-wide filesystem layouts.
• Ability to work effectively on a self-organizing team with minimal supervision
• Initiative in communicating with co-workers, asking questions and learning
• Proactive and creative problem solver with the ability to multitask and manage tight deadlines

Nice to Haves: 

• Experience with Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, IIS, JBoss, Java, ELK, RabbitMQ, Chef, Ruby, LDAP
• Experience with different OS (Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS/Oracle Linux, Windows servers)
• Experience with different hypervisors (VMware ESXi, XEN)
• Exposure to working in Agile software development environment
• Able to communicate in German