[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @KOSTAL Group

KOSTAL Group is a global, family-owned German company that develops market-leading solutions for the solar and automotive industries. The company was established in 1912 and employs about 20 000 people at 47 locations in 22 countries. In Hungary, KOSTAL is about to build its first business service centre to provide business support in IT, finance, procurement, master data, sales and HR fields. This will be a global centre with high value-added and complex processes which you can help to build. 

The work can be managed remotely – with time-to-time office presence depending on the team’s agreement and the demand of the respective professional area – from any location in Hungary. In case of some company events, office attendance is expected from the colleagues. Technical conditions for working from home are fully in place.

Overall Purpose of Job:

Compleo Charging Software’s e-mobility cloud platform as well as the software development process incl. CI/CD must be prepared for the hyper-exponential growth expected in the e-mobility market. The Site Reliability Engineering  team of professional DevOps Engineers ensures a scalable and highly reliable platform and utilizes synergies by supporting the

development teams through automation.

Main tasks, roles and responsibilities:

• As DevOps Engineer you will maintain and improve our DevOps environment (Gitlab, Grafana, K8s etc.) on all platform stages.
• Through automation in our own developer portal you will enable software developers and test engineers to focus on their job and not hassle with infrastructure requests, (such as database creation or access) or the zero-downtime deployment process.
• Together with your team you will improve the platform monitoring and support in case of platform infrastructure related incident analysis, side by side with our Operations department and software developers.
• With your experience you will act as technical sparring’s partner for our software developers and test engineers in case of questions related to infrastructure, monitoring, alerting and CI/CD.
• Together with your team you will keep an eye on new technologies to improve our platform and support our development process.
• You will work with international colleagues in the scaled agile software development program using SAFe methodology. 
   

Education:

• University degree in Computer Sciences or similar education

Work experiences – time/seniority/sector:

• 3+ years of DevOps Engineering or System Administration
• 2+ years as Developer, ideally Java and/or Javascript

Technical/ IT knowledge:

• Linux
• Gitlab – Administration and CI/CD
• Kubernetes - Administration
• Grafana - Administration
• Docker
• Ideally Java
• Ideally Webdevelopment – Javascript and HTML

Language – with level

• Fluent English

Mobility requirements

• As per need – usually 2-4 weeks per year to Germany or similar

Required Skills and Competencies:

• You are enthusiastic over solving complex problems in a team and automatizing recurring tasks
• You have experience with agile methodologies like Scrum/Kanban and ideally SAFe
• You have strong communication skills
• You are open minded

Additional information

Flexible working conditions with remote work possibility (in-person presence is required from time to time), you can have a real work-life balance

• Modern, newly renovated, sustainable office with parking space and bicycle storage area in the heart of Budapest
• Competitive salary, benefits and compensation packages (Medicover health insurance, bonuses, an extra day off on your birthday, eyeglasses contribution)
• Supportive, diverse and highly skilled community
• Ability to really make a difference and build new processes from scratch, you can participate in the formation and shape of the BSC processes
• KOSTAL is a dynamically developing company (10-20% yearly growth in the automotive and solar industry), an independent, family-run business which provides much flexibility
• You can enjoy our value-oriented work culture: we are down-to-earth, appreciative, inspiring and innovative

If you are looking for new challenges, we are looking for you! Shape the future of KOSTAL Hungary while building an international career at a 100+ years old German company! Our flexible working conditions and the excellent team at KOSTAL make the perfect place for your ambitions.