System Engineer (m/f/d) in Berlin

About us

Contorion is an innovative and fast-growing online shop for professional industrial and trade supply. Thanks to an intelligent and technology-driven business model, Contorion is aiming to offer a wide range of products with high quality of service at fair prices. For making the vision of revolutionising the supply for small and medium sized businesses reality, we’re looking for dynamic and motivated people who want to become part of our team!

Your Tasks

• Supporting us with managing our infrastructure, deploying code and securing our customer data
• Building and supporting our cloud infrastructure
• Designing, building and maintaining our development, testing and production infrastructure
• Automation of infrastructure tasks
• Together with our other System Engineers and Developers ensure we deliver code quickly and safely into production, help building test automation infrastructure and related developer tools.
• Keep our production infrastructure running smoothly
• Work closely together with our cross-functional development teams in a SCRUM environment

Your Profile

• You have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or scientific/technical field or at least 3 years of practical experience as a System Engineer.
• You’re already a guru in Linux (especially Debian and Ubuntu) configuration and operation in large real or virtual datacenters.
• Good understanding of Internet protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTPS).
• You know some or most of the following technologies:
  -  You know how to write shell scripts or web apps in languages like Bash, Python, JavaScript or PHP
   - You’re familiar with cloud infrastructure software/solutions like Openstack or AWS
   - Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpsWorks and Terraform
   - You know how to administer, monitor and write basic queries for relational and nonrelational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aerospike, ZooKeeper).
   - Loadbalancers (Big IP, AWS ELB, HAProxy)
   - Queuing (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka).
   - Web servers (nginx, Apache2)
   - Monitoring (NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana)
   - Version control (git), CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Travis CI), and configuration management and infrastructure automation software like Saltstack, Puppet, Chef or Ansible are your best friends.
   - Experience with configuring virtual development environments (Vagrant)
   

Your Chance

• Work with more than 30 people from all over the world, organized in cross-functional teams driven by passion with flat hierarchies and approachable colleagues
• Have a direct impact within our organisation each day
• Encouragement of personal and professional development inside the company
• Regular update meetings on the company’s achievements & challenges
• Competitive compensation and plenty of room for personal growth
• You will be working in a modern office in the heart of Berlin (Checkpoint Charlie)
• Fresh fruit, snacks and regular team events
• A wide range of sport activities (Yoga, Pilates, Football, Beachvolleyball, Basketball)
• Learning & Development options (internal trainings, German course, DYI-workshops)
• A cool lounge with football table, playstation and table tennis