Staff Cloud Platform Engineer (d/f/m)

mobile.de is Germany's largest vehicle marketplace with about 1.4 million listed cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Both private customers and more than 40,000 registered vehicle dealers use the platform. Including listing exports to the sister platform Kleinanzeigen, mobile.de reaches about 20 million unique users per month (AGMA digital facts; mobile.de and Kleinanzeigen; categories: cars, motorcycles, commercial vehicles, motorhomes; Ø month April 2022 to March 2023). As a "one-stop shop," mobile.de offers not only buying and selling services but also financing and leasing solutions, among others. The company, founded in 1996, is a subsidiary of Adevinta, a globally leading provider of online classifieds portals.

mobile.de is part of Adevinta: a global online classifieds specialist and sustainability leader with 25+ products in 10 countries.

What you’ll do ​& Who you are

The Team:

The mobile.de SRE team is providing tooling and support to enable our application developers within a public cloud environment. We take care of IaC for containerised workloads on Kubernetes, observability integrations, resource management and more. We fight toil, believe in everything as code and enjoy enabling our colleagues to work smarter and faster. We are heavily involved in mobile.de’s ongoing public cloud transformation and we watch over our platform 24/7 to detect and tackle incidents in time.

The Role:

• We contribute to the success and future of Germany’s biggest automotive marketplace with our knowledge and experience

• We challenge the status quo every day and are a vital part in the optimisation and evolution of the platform in the public cloud

• We co-own operations and constantly improve our platform by driving automation, simplicity, reliability and observability

• We share our knowledge and mentor team members as well as application developers in SRE principles

• We use, adapt and (re)design automated workflows as well as maintain and upgrade services of any kind

• We aim to understand the platforms history to shape the future by establishing playbooks and tools for maintenances and migrations

• This role is all about platform engineering in the public cloud and its operations and we want you for this!

Who you are:

• You are able to plan and lead migration projects

• You excel with agile processes, communication and project management

• You have a proven track record in internet platform operations

• You are proficient in public cloud (AWS, GCP) and containerisation concepts

• You are looking forward to working with K8s, Docker and Cloud Native Services

• You write your configuration code in Terraform/Terragrunt

• You are not afraid of the occasional deep-dive into Bash, Python, Java, etc.

• Replicated datastores like MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, etc. do not scare you

• Your skill set includes good operational knowledge (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, etc.)

• Consulting and helping others with your expertise makes your day

• Your deep understanding of cloud architecture enables you to contribute to ADRs

• You are able to fluently communicate in English

Benefits

Life at Adevinta comes with its perks! Our Adevintans enjoy the following benefits: 

• An attractive Base Salary 💸

• Participation in our Short-Term Incentive plan (annual bonus) 🏆

• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere! Maybe not from the moon🌛well why not! just make sure you have internet connection! 🌍

• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care ❤️‍

• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow 🌱 

On top of these, we also provide a range of locally relevant benefits. Wanna know more? Apply and ask our recruiters! ✨

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.