DevOps Engineer for George (all humans)

Make a difference in the financial life of millions of people: At Erste Digital you are co-creating the digital future, in which better financial health is possible. #believeinyourself

We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.

The Future of Banking is Digital. Digital transformation is happening at every level in the banking industry, and leading this initiative by delivering digital solutions across Erste Group, is what we do. Artificial Intelligence, check, Data Scientists making meaning from Big Data, we’ve got that covered too. One of our prized solutions is the award winning digital banking platform, George, providing a desktop and mobile banking gateway for the bank’s retail customers. We are agile & awesome, creative & brave, playful & serious. And we are looking for great people to help us deliver this promise.

For this international customer-oriented banking application, we seek a candidate for the position “DevOps Engineer” for Cloud and on-premise datacentre infrastructure and applications.

What to do: 

• Analyse and investigate incidents on a technical level in the cloud and on-premise infrastructure
• Support developers in infrastructure architecture topics
• Inspect and analyse logs (Apache, Tomcat, custom) and correlate information in several logs using tools such as Kibana, CloudWatch
• See the “big picture” of the whole solution to be able to determine the root causes of problems
• Support in performance testing and analyse results to suggest software and infrastructure optimisation
• Support in application sizing and releases from test environments to bringing it to production
• Create and maintain operational documentation.
• Participate in the ongoing initiative to migrate on-premise infrastructure to public cloud
• Setting up and maintaining monitoring of applications for Service Desk teams (Kibana, Prometheus, Grafonnet, OpenTelemetry)
• Investigate and suggest improvements to current infrastructure set up by staying up to date with the latest technologies and infrastructure.
• Do on-call support rotation (1 week on call in 6 to 8 weeks)

You check these boxes:

• Proficient in English
• Experience with
  • Linux
  • Elastic Search, Kafka, Cassandra
  • Relational databases and SQL queries
  • Experience with AWS(EKS, RDS, ALB, EC2, SG) and many more AWS services
  • Proficient with Kubernetes and helm
  • Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXC)
• Understanding of
  • Java Application servers / Standalone Java basic configuration
  • HTTP/HTTPS, RESTFul API (JSON)
  • Messaging services/Concepts (MQ, AQ, JMS)
  • Infrastructure as a code principle
  • Code versioning

Why you will like us:

• Possibility to benefit and learn from our international, talented and passionate community at Erste
• Interest groups and clubs: Take part in discussions and get involved in projects. Numerous interest groups invite you to engage with a topic
• Health Care – Taking care of your health is important. That’s why we contribute to your above standard medical examination and provide a helpline in case of hard lifetime situations. You also receive a salary compensation during sick leave
• Work-Life-Balance – Sabbatical, paternity leave, contribution to marriage & childbirth, 4 days of extra holiday per year, contribution to the 3rd pillar and MultiSport card. This is how we promote a balance between work, leisure, and family
• Employee Referral Program – Become a talent scout for career opportunities in IT. We are rewarding every successful referral for Erste Digital
• A competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted - we are obliged by law to quote the minimum wage of EUR 3.000,- gross per month for this full time position. But this is just a formality, we are more than happy to discuss your actual expectations.

The way we are

As an employee of Erste Digital, the success of our people is more than a motto, it’s our manifest. We nurture a work environment where age, skin colour, gender, sexual orientation and cultural background are seen as the key to our success – we live diversity!