Cloud DevOps Engineer

Company Description

At lastminute.com, we live for the holidays. We are the European Travel-Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. With technology, we turn spontaneous thoughts into meaningful experiences, helping people travel the world.

Job Description

We are looking for a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our team of around 1,700 people worldwide to help us power up the traveller's journey for millions of holidaymakers. If you are passionate about shaping the future of cloud infrastructure, and skilled at driving innovation through DevOps excellence, keep on reading, as you might be the perfect fit for this job.

The job in brief: 

• Job Title -  Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Working model -  hybrid from Chiasso
• Team -  you will join the Product SRE team within the Platform department.
• Level - Professional 
• Location - Chiasso, Switzerland
• Contract -  Permanent 

What your impact will be:

Will be part of engineering teams working side by side with engineers and product owners to improve release management infrastructure and processes

• Improve and evolve the current Self-Service Capabilities to developers
• Actively contribute to define common processes  like Cloud governance, new technologies adoption, cost management and optimisation
• Collaborate with SRE teams to increase awareness of day-to-day issues for developers and inform a reliability roadmap
• Understanding product engineering problems and where new processes and automations can improve workflows
• Create a DevOps culture of communication and support between product engineering and SREs
• Collaborates with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex technological infrastructure, security, or development problem
• Administer and provision part of infrastructure through IAC (Terraform) 

• Support teams on legacy stack migrations to AWS

• Support teams on SLI/SLO/SLA definition and related implementation

• Collaborate closely with architects, developers, database administrators in order to handle the reliability and scalability of the infrastructure

Qualifications

Your expertise: 

• + 4 years experience as DevOps
• Strong experience and knowledge of AWS 
• Strong knowledge  of Docker and Orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes, EKS)
• Experience working in microservices based architectures
• Strong understanding of configuration management tools like Ansible and IAC tools (Terraform) and their best practices.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience using  Continuous delivery and deployment tools like GitlabCI, Spinnaker or similar (CircleCI / GoCD / Github Actions …)
• Knowledge of tooling such as Helm, Gitlab CI, Terraform, Gitlab, Vault etc.
• Good Knowledge of languages like Go, Python 
• Familiarity  understanding of change management and incident management processes

Desirable: 

• Experience working with product owners or product managers
• Certifications in one of above described fields
• Good understanding of hybrid cloud architecture
• Experience in the programming language Java

Additional Information

Perks of working with us:

How we work together:

• An inclusive, friendly, and international environment (you’ll be working with colleagues from +10 countries and over 48 nationalities)
• Shorter working week (36h as full time), with a half working day on Fridays
• Flexible start and end of the working day, with core hours from 10:00 to 4:00 pm
• Possibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year defined according to local regulations

How we learn together:

• Fri-Yays: half a day on Friday morning with a no-meeting mandate and dedicated to deep work, personal growth, learning and training and/or focus time.
• Professional and managerial skills development training paths, access to e-learning platforms such as O’reilly, Udemy, Coursera (depending on the department), and to our internal platform offering bespoke training content

Other perks:

• 2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes
• Occasional social events to foster connections among colleagues
• Travel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares
• We support our employees through life's significant moments with leave options (e.g parental responsibilities, marriages, bereavements, relocations, etc.) in line with local laws.

Wish you were here? We do, too!

Selection process steps*:

• HR interview
• 1st Interview (2 hours): Manager + Team Member + Pair Programming
• Offer extended
  (*Please note the process can slightly vary. The recruiter in charge will share more details when setting up the interview)

Our commitment to celebrate diversity and generate belonging

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression, and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

Eligibility criteria:
By submitting your information and application, you confirm that you are legally authorised to work in the country of employment and that you do not require visa sponsorship to obtain employment visa status.