(Mid-level and Senior) System Engineers / DevOps Engineers

Company Description

Blackbird Collective is an HR organization that helps startups and established companies find employees that match their current needs. We work on freelance and interim recruitment projects for clients based in Germany, most of which are located in Berlin.

Our client is  the leading online road freight forwarding company in Germany, they offer business customers a fully digital booking experience for logistics services – with one click only and as simple as online shopping.

Tech stack: Linux, Nginx, Percona, PHP, Puppet and AWS.

Job Description

•  As a Senior Systems / DevOps engineer you own the entire application infrastructure, served on AWS using Nginx & PHP 7.2 (EC2), Postgres (RDS), Redis (EC), ElasticSearch (ESS) and others 
• You prioritize availability and reliability and proactively find + resolve potential incidents 
• You are a positive and forward-looking human being - robots are cool and all, but we're a team that likes working together 
• You will become responsible for a mission-critical part of our platform 
• This means:

1. Plan, propose and implement big and small projects from start to finish 
2. Improve and optimize as the requirements change 
3. Drive evolution of systems architecture 
4. Ensure reliability 
5. Test, monitor and add resilience

• Collaborate closely with others, splitting tasks or pairing up as necessary, to leverage different skill sets and specialties across the team • Adopt, share and adapt conventions and best-practices - level up individually and as a team over time