Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

Germany, Austria, Finland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain

Full or part-time

Permanent employee

Our mission:

Are you a motivated DevOps Engineer ready to make an impact by shaping OX Cloud, our fully hosted and managed global email platform?

At Open-Xchange, we develop open-source communication and collaboration software used by public sector organizations, telcos, and hosting providers to keep data secure and under their control. Our products cover email, collaboration, DNS security, and related services, and are used by millions of people worldwide.

Discover what Open-Xchange offers you:

We work in a non-hierarchical organization that empowers everyone to take responsibility, stay focused, and contribute directly to the company’s success and customer value.
We value expertise and continuous professional development. Our professionals work closely with experienced colleagues, take ownership of their work, and continuously expand their skills.
Openness and diversity are core to OX. Different perspectives, backgrounds, and ways of thinking strengthen our collaboration and help us see the bigger picture.

Your team:

The OX Cloud team is at the heart of Open-Xchange to make millions of users worldwide happy by supplying them our open-source products. We collaborate with various engineering teams to automate deployment processes, increase system reliability, and enhance scalability. We drive diverse non-functional feature of our products like availability, reliability, security, and observability in close collaboration with all the other engineering teams.

Right now, we are on a journey towards a more wholeheartedly approach to DevOps and transforming our engineering organization.

Your new job:

Automate the provisioning of infrastructure, products and configuration with tools like Terraform, Ansible and Helm in collaboration with other engineering teams.
Run our production environments.
Operate containerized applications on Kubernetes and consult others with Helm-based deployments.
Contribute to the management and optimization of storage and database infrastructure.
Join our on-call rotation to handle incidents and improve overall system reliability.
Collaborate closely with developers and other teams to ensure smooth integration, delivery and operations across all stages of the product lifecycle.
Raise the bar for us and bring us to your level in hard engineering skills and/or engineering & product culture.

This is the tech stack you'll be working with:

Operating system: Linux
Container orchestration: Kubernetes
CNCF ecosystem: Prometheus, Grafana
Automation tools: Terraform, Ansible, Chef
CI/CD: GitLab CI
Scripting languages: Python, Shell
Databases & storage: MariaDB/MySQL, S3

Your background:

Several years of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Helm, or hands-on experience as a software developer (strong plus).
Practical experience operating Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
Contributions to CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab or Jenkins.
Experience troubleshooting distributed systems running on Linux.
Familiarity with various databases and storage solutions.
Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
Intrinsic motivation to take ownership and a passion for open-source technologies, thriving in a low-hierarchy environment.
Comfortable working in a remote-first environment with multicultural teams across different time zones.

This is what you get at Open-Xchange:

The flexibility to work 100% remotely ensures a work environment that suits you best.
Flexible working hours that allow you to successfully combine your home and family responsibilities with work.
Getting together in-person for workshops and fun team events.
Time off to volunteer – and mental health support when you need it.
We provide financial relief through corporate benefits and a subsidy for ergonomic chairs and desks.
We can discuss further location-related benefits together in an initial talk.

Join the team:

Join us in our fight for an open internet and deliver added value! Click “Apply now” to submit your application.

Your contact person:

Reach out to Justin (recruiting@open-xchange.com) from the People Team. He will be able to discuss current opportunities and tell you more about our exciting vision and mission @OX.