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What's in it for you?
- We pride ourselves on mentorship, support, collaboration, and vulnerability. Our approach to psychological safety, growth and personal development makes it a perfect environment for someone starting their journey as a Cloud Native Engineer. We know that one year working on projects with us is equivalent to three years in a different type of company (product company) in terms of depth of experience.
- We offer a diverse work environment where people are respected for who they are and a culture based on learning, trust, and collaboration.
What does it take?
- We often build tailored, innovative solutions within complex and ambiguous environments. On top of that, consulting with clients, which depends on asking the right questions and crafting solutions as a team, requires strong collaboration and communication skills.
- You need to be inquisitive and eager to explore.
Want to work with us? If you’ve made it this far, we (probably) definitely want to work with you too!
- Drop us your CV and tell us, briefly, why you are applying. If your CV shows that you have what it takes, here’s how we will proceed:
Job Benefits:
- All travel covered
- Unlimited books budget
Time zone: (GMT+00:00) London +/- 4 hours
Why Work At Container Solutions?
What our engineers say:
- "I'm trusted to get my work done. I don't always work best in a 9-5 routine. I can work the hours I need to in the times that make the most sense for me and the teams I'm working with." - Cari Liebenberg, Cloud Native Engineer
- “It’s about the people. It's equal. It's human. We’re all working towards a shared goal. People listen. They want to learn.” - Lian Li, Engineering Manager
- “CS is a consultancy that cares about you. The cool tech that CS promotes is to genuinely improve customers’ infrastructure, not just give them what they want.” - Eric Caleb, Cloud Native Engineer
- “I like the culture and the people. The work too, there are plenty of opportunities to grow.” - Michiel Bakker, Senior Cloud Native Engineer
What is Container Solutions?
- Container Solutions helps companies migrate to Cloud Native. Working together with our clients' teams, we tailor and implement solutions that last, by focusing both on technical as well as organisational transformation. When companies like Google, Shell, and Adidas need help with Cloud Native, they turn to Container Solutions.
- Our people are innovative and curious. They join us to learn, collaborate, and share their knowledge. With close to a hundred colleagues, and offices in Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, Montreal, kitchens, living rooms, dining rooms and wherever remote working finds us, we are building an exciting future. Will you be a part of it?
- Our biggest benefits are our people and our culture, but we know that’s not enough to get you to hit ‘Apply’. We offer a diverse work environment where people are respected for who they are and a culture based on learning, trust, and collaboration.
The role and the details
- Previous experience and roles that equip you for this role: Full-stack engineer / DevOps Engineer / experience with containerization and Docker
- As a Cloud Native Engineer, you’ll be in charge of shaping solutions for companies in the midst of both an organisational as well as a technological transformation. Working in small, self-managed teams, you’ll guide our clients towards creating and automating their cloud infrastructure. We are a vendor-agnostic company, meaning that you will get to apply a diverse mix of tools and services. You mostly perform work from our offices. However, sometimes cooperation with our customers requires us to travel as part of the job.
- The role is remote within these timezones GMT-4 to GMT+3. We are looking for people who already live in these timezones.
Benefits
➤ Budget and time for learning, personal development, certifications, and contributing to open-source projects➤ A competitive salary (aligned with your experience)
➤ Possibility for employee ownership and equity-based compensation
➤ Full coverage of travel and commute
➤ Unlimited books budget
➤ 25 days of paid leave
➤ A pension scheme
What does it take?
We often build tailored, innovative solutions within complex and ambiguous environments. Therefore, having an inquisitive mind and the eagerness to explore is vital. On top of that, consulting with clients, which depends on asking the right questions and crafting solutions as a team, requires strong collaboration and communication skills
Must-have technical skills ➤ Background in development and/or operations➤ An understanding of best practices and patterns in software development
➤ Experience with CI/CD (knowledge of the principles and ability to set up a pipeline from scratch)
➤ Infrastructure provisioning (such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, etc)
➤ Experience in either public or private cloud
➤ Understanding and exposure to Kubernetes
Nice-to-have We offer engineering roles at different levels of seniority. These are some attributes that could make you a candidate for more senior positions:
➤ A deep and demonstrated understanding of distributed systems, including containerized microservices and highly scalable web applications
➤ Advanced (admin-level) knowledge of Kubernetes in production
➤ A passion for the community (attending events, advocating cloud technology via meet-ups and conferences, or writing blog posts and other pieces of content)
➤ Coaching and mentoring junior engineers
Selection process
Stage 1:
- CV sift based on our core requirements for this role + possible call with the recruiter
- Abstract Reasoning Aptitude Test: you will be asked to complete online abstract reasoning aptitude tests. We will only take through the highest performers to the next stages.
- Tech Challenge: You will receive instructions for a technical assessment, which will be evaluated by one of our current engineering team members.
- Personality Profile Assessment: You will complete an online personality assessment and undertake an interview based on your profile via Google Hangouts.
- Final Behavioural and Situational Interview with two members of our engineering team.
Job Benefits:
- All travel covered
- Unlimited books budget
Time zone: (GMT+00:00) London +/- 2 hours
About the Role
Container Solutions, a professional services company focused on Cloud Native transformation for enterprises, is seeking a Cloud Native Engineer Intern to join us for 10-12 weeks during summer 2021. Our preference is for a current university student but you may also be a very recent graduate. You must also be fully able to work remotely within Canada for the duration of this project.
You will work on one of our Open Source projects, implementing new features to drive the project forward. You will collaborate with our engineers in regular meetings and discussions over video calls and Slack. You will work independently, asking for advice and help when required. You will regularly present your ideas and work to the team in a supportive environment. This will be a fantastic opportunity to gain exposure to a scale-up cloud native consultancy at the very start of your career.
Salary and Benefits
This internship is indeed a paid position, but we have much more to offer you. Even though you will be here for just the summer we still want you to know everything you do matters, and your voice will always be heard. Container Solutions is a respected company in the field of Cloud Native and we believe that this is a wonderful opportunity not only to learn from us but to start building your career whilst still studying. Our engineers are at the forefront of the field, and regularly present at industry events. This position will give you the opportunity to work directly with them and learn through this collaboration from them.
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What it takes To succeed in this role, you will need to be a highly conscientious, technically skilled and motivated individual with a genuine enthusiasm for building Open Source software. We hope to hire someone who is a proficient developer and capable of clearly communicating their understanding and findings. In addition, we’re looking for the following:
Must-have requirements
- A background degree (2019-2021 graduates only) or current undergraduate in Computer Science, Software Development or a related field
Nice-to-have skills
- Proficiency with either Go or Rust programming languages
- Experience with public or private cloud (e.g. AWS)
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Experience with Kubernetes
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The Selection Process
- Abstract Reasoning aptitude test: this is an online psychometric test measuring your ability to think laterally and find patterns in problems presented to you in a non-verbal format.
- Situational Judgment Test (SJT): this is an online psychometric test measuring how you respond to a range of common workplace scenarios you may experience as a new graduate.
- Personality Questionnaire (NEO-PI-5) and Interview: you will meet with one of our psychologists to talk through how you see yourself at work.
- Structured Situational Behavioural Panel interview: you will meet with two CS employees who will ask you questions about relevant experiences.
Job Benefits:
- All travel covered
- Unlimited books budget
Time zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time - Halifax +/- 2 hours
About the Role Container Solutions, a professional services company focused on Cloud Native transformation for enterprises, is seeking a Cloud Native Engineer Intern to join us for 10-12 weeks during summer 2021. Our preference is for a current university student but you may also be a very recent graduate. You must also be fully able to work remotely in the UK for the duration of this project.
You will work on one of our Open Source projects, implementing new features to drive the project forward. You will collaborate with our engineers in regular meetings and discussions over video calls and Slack. You will work independently, asking for advice and help when required. You will regularly present your ideas and work to the team in a supportive environment. This will be a fantastic opportunity to gain exposure to a scale-up cloud native consultancy at the very start of your career.
Salary and Benefits
This internship is indeed a paid position, but we have much more to offer you. Even though you will be here for just the summer we still want you to know everything you do matters, and your voice will always be heard. Container Solutions is a respected company in the field of Cloud Native and we believe that this is a wonderful opportunity not only to learn from us but to start building your career whilst still studying. Our engineers are at the forefront of the field, and regularly present at industry events. This position will give you the opportunity to work directly with them and learn through this collaboration from them.
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What it takes
To succeed in this role, you will need to be a highly conscientious, technically skilled and motivated individual with a genuine enthusiasm for building Open Source software. We hope to hire someone who is a proficient developer and capable of clearly communicating their understanding and findings. In addition, we’re looking for the following:
Must-have requirements
- A background degree (2019-2021 graduates only) or current undergraduate in Computer Science, Software Development or a related field
Nice-to-have skills
- Proficiency with either Go or Rust programming languages
- Experience with public or private cloud (e.g. AWS)
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Experience with Kubernetes
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The Selection Process
- Abstract Reasoning aptitude test: this is an online psychometric test measuring your ability to think laterally and find patterns in problems presented to you in a non-verbal format.
- Situational Judgment Test (SJT): this is an online psychometric test measuring how you respond to a range of common workplace scenarios you may experience as a new graduate.
- Personality Questionnaire (NEO-PI-5) and Interview: you will meet with one of our psychologists to talk through how you see yourself at work.
- Structured Situational Behavioural Panel interview: you will meet with two CS employees who will ask you questions about relevant experiences.
Job Benefits:
- All travel covered
- Unlimited books budget
Time zone: (GMT+00:00) London
About the role
We are looking for Site Reliability Engineers based in Europe to join our new Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team. As part of the team you will have responsibility for the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of our customers’ applications and infrastructure. We are building a remote-first team across multiple time zones with the goal of eventually enabling a follow-the-sun work schedule.
Core Responsibilities
- Be part of a fully remote team across multiple continents and time zones
- Regularly engage with customers to consult and share information
- Develop simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes
- Participate in your team’s effort to continuously improve our customers’ production environments
- Own your team's tech and tools stack and contribute to the relevant open-source projects
- Design, analyse, and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems
- Participate in your team’s on-call rotation
- Create and refine documentation and processes
- Automate almost all the things
- Provide ideas for future roadmap items, based on customer, operational, and/or organisational needs
- Learn and share by being part of the Cloud Native community through open-source tooling and processes, writing blog posts, and giving meetup or conference talks
If you are selected for this role and come to work for us on an employee basis, you can count on the following:
- A competitive compensation package
- Possibility for employee ownership and equity based compensation
- 25 days of paid leave annually
- Company-wide mental health days off
- ‘No Meeting’ Wednesdays
- Access to leadership development programmes, coaching and mentoring
- Access to our in-house psychologists
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What does it take?
Please make sure you meet these requirements before applying, as we will be checking for all of them in our hiring process.
Must-have requirements
- A strong engineering or operations background, and the commitment to develop continuously in both disciplines
- At least 3 years experience working in a related field
- A strong understanding and knowledge of the following:
- — Kubernetes API, core principles and components
- — Linux networking and security related to containers
- — Distributed systems and common distributed system failure modes
- Proven production experience with at least one of the following:
- — Common CI/CD systems such as Github Action, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, etc.
- — Major cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure
- — Modern infrastructure automation or configuration management system such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack, or Chef
- — Container platforms such as Kubernetes
- — Programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C, or equivalent
- Ability to contribute to polyglot code bases
- Experience working with distributed architectures, e.g. microservices or service-oriented architectures
- Experience operating and maintaining production systems on Linux in a public cloud
- Can work effectively in a globally distributed team
- An urge to collaborate and communicate asynchronously
- An analytical mind; debugging and problem solving skills are paramount
- Attention to detail and excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work on your own as well as part of a team
- Flexibility to learn from and work with different technical environments and teams Comfortable with working on-call (as part of a regular 24x7 schedule)
Nice-to-have requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a relevant field
- Experience being part of an on-call schedule
- Experience working 100% remotely
- Experience implementing monitoring solutions
- Operations experience with a production user-facing application
- Have developed a Kubernetes controller, operator, or other platform component
- A background in writing reliable software and/or automation tooling
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The selection process
Stage 1:
- CV sift based on our core requirements for this role (+ optional call with the recruiter)
- Skills Assessment: You will be asked to complete online abstract reasoning aptitude tests.
- Tech Challenge: You will receive instructions for a technical assessment, which will be evaluated by one of our current CRE team members.
Stage 2:
- Personality Profile Assessment: You will complete an online personality assessment and undertake an interview based on your profile via Google Hangouts.
Stage 3:
- Final Behavioural and Situational Interview with two members of our engineering team.
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About the team
We’re a new team with big ambitions, and to help us deliver on our lofty goals, we have the following values to help keep us on course:
- Do the right thing; blameless culture, be fair and do the right thing, and always be the change you seek
- Assume good intentions; always have good intentions, show integrity, and maintain levelheadedness
- Tireless generosity; always be generous to your peers, and collaborate whenever possible
- Communicate endlessly; communicate as much as possible, be straightforward as possible and avoid jargon and weasel words whenever possible, and always be information seeking
- Learn from reflection; working together to continually improve what we do, take time to reflect and learn from our actions/outcomes and to understand others points of view
Being as distributed remote-first team, it’s important to develop habits that bring us together and force us to interact with each other, encourage us to collaborate, and generally just brings us closer together. To achieve this we have regular events such as:
- Weekly Virtual-Coffee (social event, non-work discussions)
- Monthly Coding Katas (group coding exercises for learning)
- Monthly Team drinks (all drinks are welcome, teas, juices, alcohol, caffeinated, non-alcoholic)
- Show & Tell sessions (ad-hoc technical or hobby related informal presentations)
- Monthly Games Night (social event, e.g. Tetri.io, A Fake Artist Goes to New York, Among Us, etc)
And we’re always looking for more things we can do to facilitate this, so if you join the team and have some ideas about this, you can help us expand this list.
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We are closing this advert on 31 January 2021. Any applications following this date will not be considered.
Job Benefits:
- All travel covered
- Unlimited books budget
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Berlin
As a Cloud Native Engineer, you’ll be in charge of shaping solutions for companies in the midst of both an organisational as well as a technological transformation. Working in small, self-managed teams, you’ll guide our clients towards creating and automating their cloud infrastructure. We are a vendor-agnostic company, meaning that you will get to apply a diverse mix of tools and services. You mostly perform work from our offices or from home. However, sometimes cooperation with our customers requires us to travel as part of the job, an average of 2-3 days per month.
What's in it for you?
Our biggest benefits are our people and our culture. We offer a diverse work environment where people are respected for who they are and a culture based on learning, trust, and collaboration. You can also count on:
- A competitive salary (aligned with your experience)
- Possibility for employee ownership and equity based compensation
- Budget and time for learning, personal development, certifications, and contributing to open-source projects
- Unlimited books budget
- Permanent work contract immediately
- 25 days of paid leave
What does it take?
We often build tailored, innovative solutions within complex and ambiguous environments. Therefore, having an inquisitive mind and the eagerness to explore is vital. On top of that, consulting with clients, which depends on asking the right questions and crafting solutions as a team, requires strong collaboration and communication skills.
Must-have technical skills
- Background in development and/or operations
- An understanding of best practices and patterns in software development
- Experience with CI/CD (knowledge of the principles and ability to set up a pipeline from scratch)
- Infrastructure provisioning (such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, etc)
- Experience in either public or private cloud
- Understanding and exposure to Kubernetes
Nice-to-have skills
We offer engineering roles at different levels of seniority. These are some attributes that could make you a candidate for more senior positions:
- A deep and demonstrated understanding of distributed systems, including containerised microservices and highly scalable web applications
- Advanced (admin-level) knowledge of Kubernetes in production
- A passion for the community (attending events, advocating cloud technology via meet-ups and conferences, or writing blog posts and other pieces of content)
How to apply
Drop us your CV and tell us, briefly, why you are applying. If we think you have what it takes, here’s how we will proceed:
- CV sift + optional call with the recruiter
- Abstract Reasoning assessment to assess your critical thinking skills, attention to detail, problem-solving skills and in general your ability to learn and then use new information in a short period of time.
- A technical challenge, which allows us to asses the must have technical skills.
- An online personality assessment and interview. This measure enables us to discuss how you see yourself on a day-to-day basis and within the workplace.
- A final stage is a structured behavioural situational interview with the engineering team to evaluate how well you are able to work collaboratively and to assess your technical decision making skills.
Container Solutions is proud to be committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Container Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please let us know.
Job Benefits:
- All travel covered
- Unlimited books budget
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time +/- 2 hours
About the role
We are looking for experienced engineers based in Central Europe or North America to join our company as a Cloud Native Consultant. You’ll be in charge of shaping solutions for companies in the midst of both an organisational as well as a technological transformation. Working in small, self-managed teams, you’ll guide our clients towards creating and automating their cloud infrastructure. We work on the principles of humble consultancy and on top of that, we are a vendor-agnostic company, meaning that you will get to advise our customers on a diverse mix of tools and services.
Working at Container Solutions:
The Cloud Native technology field is very new, and our success thus far has been built upon our commitment to learning and experimentation. Container Solutions prides itself on being a learning organisation. We don’t do things just because they have always been done that way; we innovate to help our customers be successful.
This role significantly differs from our Cloud Native Engineering role, as you will be in charge of Cloud Native Transformations—from design to building phase, the Cloud Native Consultant is there.
Daily activities involve:
- You are the point of contact for the customers and the engineering teams.
- You will be in touch with customers regularly , advising them and supporting them along their journey.
- You will work very closely with our Cloud Native Engineers and the customers core team.
- Continuous focus on developing and coaching both the customer team and CS team.
- Being to go to person for all tech-related delivery for Project Managers on any giving project.
- Willingness to travel to be on the customer site.
Key behavioural competencies:
- Highly adept at problem solving
- Able to managing relationships well, with a key focus on customer relationships
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Excellent aptitude for technical learning
If successful, you can count on us to offer you:
- A competitive package ( please note this is a non-commission based role)
- Possibility for employee ownership and equity based compensation
- Phone and laptop, brand of your choice
- Full coverage of travel and commute
- ‘No Meeting’ Wednesdays
- Unlimited books budget
- Access to leadership development programmes, coaching and mentoring
- We have in-house psychologists
Must-Have Skills:
- Technical skills
- Background in development and/or operations
- Deep understanding of Cloud Native technologies
- An understanding of best practices and patterns in software development
- Experience with CI/CD (knowledge of the principles and ability to set up a pipeline from scratch).
- Infrastructure provisioning (such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, etc)
- Expertise in cloud architecture or distributed systems engineering
- Has experience running ‘in production of any system’.
- A deep and demonstrated understanding of distributed systems, including containerised microservices and highly scalable web applications.
- Non-technical skills
- Communication skills and a passion for advocating cloud technology via speaking engagements, conferences, meetups or blogs
- Ability to empathise with client's problems and identify potential solutions
Selection Process
- Stage 1: CV sift + short call with one member of the talent team
- Stage 2: Abstract Reasoning Aptitude Test: you will be asked to complete online abstract reasoning aptitude tests. We will only take through the highest performers to the next stages.
- Stage 3: API test: You will receive instructions for a technical assessment, which will be evaluated by one of our current engineering team members.
- Stage 4: Personality Profile Assessment: You will complete an online personality assessment and undertake an interview based on your profile via Google Hangouts.
- Stage 5: Final Behavioural and Situational Interview with two members of our engineering Team.
Container Solutions is proud to be committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Container Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please let a member of our Talent Team know.
Job Benefits:
- All travel covered
- Unlimited books budget
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time +/- 2 hours
We are seeking to hire Engineering Managers. This senior technical and managerial role (50/50 split) would suit someone who has well-established engineering experience and is now looking for a new opportunity to build and lead dynamic teams. The successful candidate will be keen to progress within a rapidly expanding scale-up organization, helping build and lead teams. Engineering Managers play a crucial role in sharing and cultivating our culture, alongside developing our talent. You will have the opportunity to get involved in key decision making across our engineering teams, making an impact on our core business. The role will require the individual to manage a team of ambitious and highly driven Cloud-Native Engineers. The primary focus of the engineering manager will be leading through others. We would expect you to be a competent coach and mentor for this highly effective group.
On a day-to-day basis, the job will entail:
Technical challenges:
You will help your reports on their client engagements, solving both technical and business-related problems in a holistic way. You will be faced with unique challenges, encompassing:
- Chaos engineering
- Bare metal provisioning
- Serverless
- CI/CD
- Cloud migration
- Container Orchestration
- Microservices
- Observability
- … and many more
You will have the chance to stay technically focused whilst helping clients and your reports with their Cloud-Native transformations.
Managing your team:
- Managing and recruiting a team of engineers through hands-on career development
- Helping with project assignment and onboarding - based on engineers skills and career goals, aligned with the business needs
- Proactively supporting a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with CS values
Must-have Requirements:
- Deep understanding of Cloud Native technologies
- Understanding or experience of management practices
- Desire to support and develop other engineers
We are currently looking for people who are based in the EU or NA and have working permits for these places.
You will go through a number of sequential stages as part of the selection process for the role, moving through each if successful. This will involve you completing psychometric tests and a technical assessment in addition to an interview. More details will be provided by our Talent team in your introduction call.This job ad will close on 5th January, applications coming in after this date will not be considered.
Container Solutions is proud to be committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Container Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or another legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request accommodation, please let us know.
Job Benefits:
- All travel covered
- Unlimited books budget
Time zone: (GMT+00:00) London +/- 2 hours
We are looking for Site Reliability Engineers based in Europe to join our new Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team. As part of the team you will have responsibility for the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of our customers’ applications and infrastructure. We are building a remote-first team across multiple time zones with the goal of eventually enabling a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.
Core Responsibilities
- Be part of a fully remote team across multiple continents and time zones
- Regularly engage with customers to consult and share information
- Develop simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes
- Participate in your team’s effort to continuously improve our customers’ production environments
- Own your team's tech and tools stack and contribute to the relevant open-source projects
- Design, analyse, and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems
- Participate in your team’s on-call rotation
- Create and refine documentation and processes
- Automate almost all the things
- Provide ideas for future roadmap items, based on customer, operational, and/or organisational needs
- Learn and share by being part of the Cloud Native community through open-source tooling and processes, writing blog posts, and giving meet-up/conference talks
If you are selected for this role and come to work for us on an employee basis, you can count on the following:
- A competitive compensation package
- Possibility for employee ownership and equity based compensation
- 25 days of paid leave annually
- Company-wide mental health days off
- ‘No Meeting’ Wednesdays
- Access to leadership development programmes, coaching and mentoring
- Access to our in-house psychologists
What does it take?
Please make sure you meet these requirements before applying, as we will be checking for all of them in our hiring process.
Must-have requirements
- A strong engineering or operations background, and the commitment to develop continuously in both disciplines
- At least 3 years experience working in a related field
- A strong understanding and knowledge of the following:
- Kubernetes API, core principles and components
- Linux networking and security related to containers
- Distributed systems and common distributed system failure modes
- Proven production experience with at least one of the following:
- Common CI/CD systems such as Github Action, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, etc.
- Major cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure
- Modern infrastructure automation or configuration management system such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack, or Chef
- Container platforms such as Kubernetes
- Programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C, or equivalent
- Ability to contribute to polyglot code bases
- Experience working with distributed architectures, e.g. microservices or service-oriented architectures
- Experience operating and maintaining production systems on Linux in a public cloud
- Can work effectively in a globally distributed team
- An urge to collaborate and communicate asynchronously
- An analytical mind; debugging and problem solving skills are paramount
- Attention to detail and excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- If you have read this far, please include a cover letter under Additional Information when you apply for the role
- Ability to work on your own as well as part of a team
- Flexibility to learn from and work with different technical environments and teams
- Comfortable with working on-call (as part of a regular 24x7 schedule)
Nice-to-have requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a relevant field
- Experience being part of an on-call schedule
- Experience working 100% remotely
- Experience implementing monitoring solutions
- Operations experience with a production user-facing application
- Have developed a Kubernetes controller, operator, or other platform component
- A background in writing reliable software and/or automation tooling
Here’s our selection process for this role:
Stage 1:
- CV sift based on our core requirements for this role + possible call with the recruiter
- Skills Assessment: You will be asked to complete online abstract reasoning aptitude tests.
- Tech Challenge: You will receive instructions for a technical assessment, which will be evaluated by one of our current CRE team members.
Stage 2:
- Personality Profile Assessment: You will complete an online personality assessment and undertake an interview based on your profile via Google Hangouts.
Stage 3:
- Final Behavioural and Situational Interview with two members of our engineering team.
This job ad will close on 08 January 2021. Applications submitted after this time will not be considered.
From the 18th of December till the 4th of January the Talent Team will be on their Christmas break. We will get in touch with everyone who applies throughout this period when we get back. We wish you all a very happy holiday season and we look forward speaking to you in 2021!
Container Solutions is proud to be committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Container Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please let us know.
Job Benefits:
- All travel covered
- Unlimited books budget
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Berlin +/- 2 hours