Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer (AWS) – Data Products & Services (m/f/d)

rpc – The Retail Performance Company ist das Beratungsunternehmen für den gesamten Weg zu einer kundenorientierten Transformation: von der kundenzentrischen Strategie, über Customer Experience Design, Data Analytics bis hin zu People Empowerment und Performance Management. Wir haben es uns zur Aufgabe gemacht, unsere Kund*innen durch ganzheitliche Lösungen von der Strategie bis zur Implementierung aus einer Hand zu unterstützen. Unser Fokus liegt auf der Schaffung inspirierender Kundenerlebnisse für eine nachhaltige und wertschöpfende Beziehung zwischen Marken und Endkund*innen.  

rpc wurde 2013 als Joint Venture der BMW Group und H&Z Unternehmensberatung AG gegründet und ist mit über 400 Mitarbeiter*innen in zehn Ländern vertreten.

• You engineer the DevOps for our web scraping and data engineering/science applications built on AWS
• You automate infrastructure setup, including services, connectors, authentication, security
• You ensure the automated operations, incl. CICD pipelines, monitoring, testing, and logging
• You define architecture and make technology choices for our products and projects, while staying up to date on emerging technologies
• You support the internal knowhow buildup, providing guidance for our more junior engineers

Experience

• Academic degree in computer science, software engineering or informatics
• Proven track record of automating and operating infrastructure for applications in AWS, with 4+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experienced in Infrastructure-as-Code, in particular with Terraform, Terraform CDK, and AWS CloudFormation
• Experienced in setting up CI/CD platforms, in particular GitHub (GitHub Actions)
• Experienced in setting up and operating logging/monitoring solutions, in particular through log aggregation with AWS CloudWatch and New Relic
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure, and performant applications, including automated setup and maintenance of infrastructure
• Collaborated closely with software developers, ideally also data engineers, data scientists and data visualization experts
• Appreciated: Published research papers or presented work at conferences
• Appreciated: Experience with mentoring and leading junior engineers

Skills

• Expert in AWS services for storage (S3, RDS Postgres), compute (EC2, ECS), network (VPC), data engineering (Glue Data Catalog, Athena)
• Appreciated: Expert in AWS services for security (Security Hub), data science (SageMaker), authentication, APIs (API Gateway)
• Expert with Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Terraform CDK, AWS CloudFormation (familiarity with AWS CDK and AWS SAM appreciated)
• Expert in cloud monitoring and log aggregation with AWS CloudWatch and New Relic
• Expert in containerisation, for example able to write own docker-compose files (familiarity with alternative Docker runtimes appreciated)
• Expert with message queue systems or task queues through Celery and AWS SQS
• Strong in Linux and shell scripting (bash, zsh)
• Expert in CI/CD and release management through GitHub/GitHub Actions (familiarity to GitHub alternatives appreciated)
• Strong in Python, including knowledge of packet management through Poetry and appreciation for type hinting; ideally also TypeScript for Terraform CDK
• Strong in databases with a focus on Postgres
• Optionally, working knowledge of frontend fundamentals like JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Able to participate in architecture discussions and motivated to advise on and implement new architectures
• Fluent in English and good intercultural communication skills
• Pragmatism, solution orientation and analytical mindset

Helen Schlegel

Junior HR Specialist