Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, Data, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will improve and maintain a scalable data platform on AWS, K8s, Confluent Cloud, and Snowflake, ensuring high availability by building CI/CD pipelines and developing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
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Your role in the team
- Improve and maintain our scalable data platform infrastructure on AWS, K8s, Confluent Cloud, and Snowflake, ensuring high availability and reliability for all data consumers across the organization.
- Collaborate closely with data engineers, analysts, and product teams to understand their needs and continuously improve the platform's usability and self-service capabilities.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring our cloud environments are reproducible, auditable, and well-documented.
- Operate and improve our data platform by optimizing workloads for performance, cost-efficiency, and resilience.
- Build and refine CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) to enable fast, safe, and automated deployments across the data platform.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies and best practices to keep our data platform modern, secure, and future-proof.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical documentation, sharing knowledge within the team and across the organization.
- Implement and maintain comprehensive observability and monitoring (Datadog), creating actionable alerts and dashboards to proactively detect and resolve issues.
- Participate in the team's on-call duty schedule.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- The right cultural fit: a genuine desire to help colleagues, a focus on delivering the right solution over the fast one, and comfort with frequent context switching.
- Strong Kafka knowledge from architecture and a developer's perspective, enabling hands-on support for application developers and contributing to our infrastructure.
- End-to-end infrastructure ownership - CI/CD (GitLab), observability & monitoring (Datadog) - with the ability to create meaningful, actionable monitors.
- Solid Terraform knowledge to confidently navigate, maintain, and contribute to our infrastructure-as-code codebase.
- Fluent in English, with strong technical communication skills adaptable to diverse audiences.
Experience
- Strong data architecture experience, with a proven track record of solving complex data challenges in large or multi-team organizations.
- Extensive experience with scalable data platforms in complex environments, including ownership of platform-critical applications.
- On-call experience and a clear mindset that critical issues don't follow business hours.
- Solid experience with a Cloud Provider (preferably AWS).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
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What we offer
- At Flix, we offer a dynamic work environment with competitive pay, strong growth opportunities, and a tech-driven approach to making travel more accessible, sustainable, and affordable.
- We recognize that everyone carries a unique set of valuable skills and experiences.
- If you think you could have an impact even though you don't meet 100% of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.
- We want to hear from you!
- Travel perks: 12 free Flix vouchers + 12 discount vouchers for friends & family.
- Work from (M)Anywhere: Depending on your role, work from another location for up to 60 days per year.
- Hybrid work model: We are an office-first company, but we offer flexibility to balance work and life.
- Wellbeing support: Access confidential 1:1 counselling, courses, and stress management for yourself and up to four family members.
- Learning & Development: Take advantage of language classes, training courses, and expert-led sessions to grow your skills.
- Mentoring Program: Connect with experienced colleagues to gain insights and accelerate your career.
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Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Industry, Production
Senior Data Platform Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
