European Energy Exchange AG · 13 hours ago
Senior DevOps Engineer (f/m/d) (part-/fulltime)
Energy, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior LevelEuropean Energy Exchange AG is a leading commodity exchange in Europe, developing and connecting markets for global energy and commodity trading. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the technical operation of SaaS applications, focusing on infrastructure architecture and automation to improve product operability and reliability.
EnergyProfessional Services
Responsibilities
Full stack responsibility of infrastructure and applications (automate, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot)
Current technology stack: On-premises setup with VMware VMs, RedHat 8, Ansible/Jenkins, self-developed Java/Kotlin applications, Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL
Operational duties include 24/7 production support shift duty and on-call shifts distributed among the team (an average of two one-week shifts and two one-week on-call duties per month will be expected)
Monitor infrastructure and applications metrics via monitoring/observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch) to ensure performance/capacity management, etc
Deployment and support of internally developed applications as well as third party software from test stage up to production environment
Systems administration of application hosts: upgrading, patching, and tuning, capacity and performance management
Contribute to evaluation and development of initiatives in the DevOps area, including various automation and containerization
Counterpart for development in architectural design and advice
Qualification
Required
University degree in Information Technology or equivalent apprenticeship
Proven professional experience in technical operations of high critical environments
Willingness to work with a classical on-prem stack but also ability to improve it towards containerization (will take some time due to 24/7 critical infrastructure and its regulation)
Expertise in RedHat Enterprise Linux (installation, system monitoring and maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting, etc.)
Experience with automation, software deployment, orchestration technologies and continuous integration & delivery (most relevant being: Ansible, Jenkins, Git, GitHub)
Be able to take responsibility and deliver results autonomously, sometimes under time pressure
Teamplayer who likes to share knowledge and tasks with the team and other peers. Openly communicate and synchronize with the team, share experience, listen and discuss critically and productively. We work in an agile development environment
Proficiency in written and spoken English
Preferred
Network knowledge: Topologies, LoadBalancer, firewalls, switches, xinetd Proxies, troubleshooting e.g. telnet, ss, Wireshark
Good knowledge of one or more of the following areas: Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Prometheus
Architectural understanding of infrastructures and application design
Experience with security requirements (certificates, TLS encryption, central identity management)
Experience with one or more of the following languages: Java/Kotlin/Python/Go
Understanding of Serverless, Microservices architecture
Benefits
Childcare
Meal allowance
Job ticket
Sports and leisure events
Company
European Energy Exchange AG
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is the leading energy exchange in Europe.
Founded in 2002
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Peter Reitz
Chief Executive Officer
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