Factor Eleven is hiring a
Senior Cloud Engineer, Remote - Germany

Summary

Factor Eleven is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join their team and manage the production environment of their digital advertisement SaaS platform. The role involves planning, guiding, and reviewing contributions of team members, improving system reliability, optimizing performance, providing operational support, gathering and analyzing metrics, partnering with development teams, and creating sustainable systems through automation.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience working as Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer or similar role
• Firm grasp on Kubernetes with Helm and container composition using Docker
• Excellent knowledge and working experience with AWS
• Ability to program (structured and OO) with multiple high level languages, such as TypeScript, Rust, C/C++, C#, Python, GoLang or Java
• Extensive experience with Application Performance Monitoring, Tracing and Logging software such as DataDog, Kibana, Graphana, HoneyComb, Harvest etc
• Good experience with event driven architecture using distributed message brokers such as Apache Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ or Redis Streams
• Good knowledge of dynamic resource management frameworks (Kubernetes, Yarn, Helm, cdk8s, AWS CDK, Terraform)

Responsibilities

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Plan, guide and review the contributions of your team members
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Measure and optimize system performance
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for our digital advertisement SaaS platform
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning

Preferred Qualifications

• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Basic knowledge of common tools and pipelines in the NodeJS/NPM ecosystem

Benefits

• Transparent, above-market salaries
• 100% remote within Europe
• Flexible work-hours and part-time models
• Be part of a fast-growing, highly-skilled team
• In person department and company events
• Home office, co-working space and work-together allowance
• Personal and professional development courses from Udemy
• Case by case relocation and visa support