DevOps Engineer

Posted Jul 17

About the job

🔥 Our mission: Innovation to patient, faster.

As regulations of the medical sector become increasingly strict in the European Union, health institutions, such as hospitals and laboratories struggle to maintain compliance due to a lack of knowledge and resources. This bears the risk of pushing small laboratories out of business and reducing the overall offering in diagnostics, ultimately resulting in a reduced health care quality for patients.

At Platomics, we address this problem by creating products that tap into an existing ecosystem and make complying with a wide range of regulations fast and easy. Candidates should be prepared to work in a high-cadence environment, collaborating with a qualified and international team.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join us on this journey.

The Role

At Platomics, the DevOps Engineer will need to seamlessly collaborate with our software developers, release managers, and other IT professionals to support code releases. You will be bridging the gaps between our software development, testing, and operations, fostering an environment of harmony and efficiency. Some activities will include the following:

  • Engaging and enhancing the life-cycle of applications on Kubernetes from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
  • Maintaining services in production by measuring and monitoring their availability, latency, and overall system health, ensuring optimal performance.
  • Scaling systems through automation and continually improve their reliability and velocity.
  • Enabling developers to manage their workloads efficiently through GitOps and CI/CD, streamlining their workflow and boosting productivity.

Tech Stack:

  • Kubernetes
  1. CSI
  2. RBAC
  • Ceph
  • Gitlab-CI
  • Grafana / Prometheus
  • Vault
  • Flux
  • Ansible/Terraform

What you bring to the table

  • 3+ years of experience in related field
  • Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration or networking
  • Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and challenges
  • Strong desire to build infrastructure as code
  • Strong knowledge of container technologies (e.g., Docker) and and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
  • Basic understanding of Ansible for automation and configuration management
  • Basic understanding of networking
  • Basic understanding of virtualization technologies such as KVM
  • Basic understanding of cloud providers like AWS, Azure
  • Familiarity with version control systems
  • Ability to write and understand scripts in Bash or Python
  • Good English communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice to have:

  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in IT Engineering, computer science, information technology, information sciences or related field or equivalent job experience
  • Familiarity with security best practices in a DevOps context (DevSecOps)
  • Ownership skills
  • Able to work with compliance and regulatory requirements

What we offer

  • Work in a company that has a truly meaningful impact: with our work, we will improve healthcare for millions of people
  • Competitive salary: Offers in accordance with Austrian collective bargaining agreements. However, our salaries are market oriented and in line with your qualifications and experience.
  • Flexible working hours: Because you know best when it is the best time to do your work
  • Remote flexibility: Join us in Vienna or from your home office anywhere in Europe
  • Workcation: Ability to work abroad for limited periods
  • Tech pack: We provide individual hardware for your success
  • Regular in-person events: At our headquarters in Vienna as well as team-building budget
  • Counseling: Confidential and professional service to support our team

How we work

We are a team of experienced, driven individuals working remotely across Europe. While our team culture is continually evolving, it is guided by the following principles:

🔋 Its a marathon, not a sprint

We create a work environment that keeps all team members healthy physically and psychologically in the long term. While we work hard, we respect boundaries and take breaks to recharge.

💬 Radical candour & psychological safety

We say what we think and care about each other. We appreciate feedback because this is what lets us grow. We create an environment where every opinion gets heard and valued.

🥇 We reject mediocrity

We deliver our best work. We care about the results we deliver and own our mistakes. We take calculated risks and ship fast - but we are not sloppy.

🔥 Ideas over hierarchy

Facts and arguments win, not job titles.

What happens next

If this posting sparked your interest, please submit your application below. You can familiarize yourself with the company via our website and Linkedin page.

If your skillset matches what we are looking for, you will be contacted and the application process follows these steps:

  1. Introductory Call (30 min)
  2. Take home Assessment (2-4hrs)
  3. Technical Interview with discussion of home assessment (60 minutes)
  4. Final Team & Culture Interview (60 min) - Onsite

Platomics is committed to providing a respectful, safe, and inclusive workplace. Diversity at Platomics means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, and respected in ways that fully develop and utilise each person’s talents and strengths and this starts with the recruitment process. If you have any special needs to accommodate your application or an interview, please let us know.