Senior DevOps Engineer

RELEX Solutions create cutting-edge supply chain and retail planning software. Within our platforms, we have the power and potential to increase adaptability, efficiency and sustainability in the consumer goods and retail value chain. Our impact is tangible; from sustainability and eliminating waste to delighting customers and delivering great tailored tech solutions, we’re curious and passionate challenge-seekers creating the future of retail today.

Our Technology Team: 

Our Technology team enjoy a challenge. They’re hungry to learn, and don’t hesitate to ask what, why, and how. They get to work with our unique, in-house database engine to create high-quality scalable code (just imagine, thousands of stores, millions of products, and billions of rows of raw data!) Their expertise positively impacts the environment and business processes around the world; alongside international colleagues, they drive change and develop solutions that become our pioneering end product. From functional programming, machine learning and interesting algorithms, to building big data pipelines, they’re behind it all. They can work in a flexible way, remote or in-office – after all, they contribute to all our achievements, so we reward them with genuine work-life balance and access to every opportunity.

Join us as a Senior DevOps Engineer in Helsinki. You should be able to visit the office in Helsinki when needed. Ideally, this would be a hybrid opportunity, but remote working from anywhere in Finland can be considered.  

You will join the Observability team which forms part of the Cloud Platform department! In this role you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing our state-of-the-art observability platform, ensuring seamless CI/CD integration, robust infrastructure automation, and real-time system monitoring to elevate our enterprise solutions. We are looking for an experienced engineer with a passion for observability platform development. We have low amount of bureaucracy and strong focus on autonomous work and getting things done. 

What you will be doing:  

• Help teams at RELEX monitor the availability and performance of their services by developing and maintaining our internal observability platform. 
• Automate systems using Gitlab, deploy and operate Azure and Kubernetes infrastructure. 
• Aid our users in getting the most out of the platform by responding to support requests. 
• If you want to go deeper into development, you can contribute to our internal and open-source tools and self-service portals using Go and JavaScript. 

Minimal requirements: 

• 5 years of experience on DevOps or SRE position 
• 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure 
• 3 years of experience with Gitlab pipelines in DevOps role 
• 3 years of experience with Kubernetes, Helm and containerization technologies 
• 3 years of experience with Linux 
• 3 years of experience with Terraform 
• Ability to work independently, maintain quality of your work and help more junior team members 

Skills considered as an advantage:

• Microsoft Azure Cloud certification 
• Work experience in an international environment 
• At least 3 years of experience related to deploying, maintaining and using Observability services and tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, VictoriaMetrics, Azure Monitoring, Honeycomb, etc.) 
• At least 2-3 years of experience of coding in any programming language 
• At least 2 years of experience with Golang 
• At least 2 years of experience with Ansible 
• Open-source contributions, especially to observability tools 
• Experience with Terraform Cloud 
• Experience with GitHub 

Our Helsinki office 

RELEXians can be found around the world, but here we’re based in Helsinki. We’re passionate about using our technology to improve sustainability and change the world. Our office provides a great space for you to socialise, exercise and even take time out in our relaxing areas. We make sure our unique approach to flexibility and work-life balance comes across loud and clear; we’re conveniently located, there’s plenty of public transport and you can even bring your pet to the office!

Across RELEX, our people are supported and rewarded.

In Finland, we go even further. As well as:
• A competitive salary
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Extensive physical and wellbeing support
• Up to 8 weeks of annual leave per year
• A true hybrid-working policy (home and office)

We also offer a range of benefits to support you, your family, and your life situation. We value your work-life balance and provide flexible hours with RELEX specific parental leave agreements. As we’re a diverse team of smart, motivated and fun people, we also have an office gym, offer a mobile phone package and bike leasing.

Are you the one we’re looking for? Apply today and become a part of our RELEX family!  

You can apply by sending your cover letter and resume through the application form as soon as possible. Please note that we will start screening all the applications after the application deadline.    

If you have questions, Sanober Masalawala ([email protected]) from our Talent Acquisition team is happy to answer them by email. Kindly note that we cannot process any applications through email.