Hi! We are verkstedt. 👋

We are a team of software developers, located in the heart of Berlin Mitte.

We are passionate about delivering high quality web applications with a strong focus on performance, scalability and robust solutions that don’t bother us during a nice board game session on a Saturday night.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team.

Join us and become part of a seasoned team of skilled engineers! We offer you the opportunity to shape and evolve large-scale software projects, work flexibly and focus on code and shipping products, not bureaucracy.

Software engineering is always about trade-offs. Thus we try to focus on implementing pragmatic solutions and getting things done, rather than succumbing to dogmas.

Tasks

Your tasks will involve a combination of the following:

• Setting up and maintaining our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, and more.
• Exploring and evaluating new tools and services (lately we are interested in setting up and testing out Rasa).
• Loving care of a small server zoo using Ansible, Docker and some Linux.
• Loosing a good portion of your sanity when building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for our frontend and backend applications.
• Supporting the team with infrastructure and ideas on how to run things in a pragmatic yet robust way.
• Participate in as little meetings as possible.
• Contributing to open source projects.
• Working on greenfield projects.
• If this sounds like what you are looking for, get in touch! – We look forward to meeting you.

Requirements

Basically there is only one major requirement we have: you should simply enjoy collaborating on providing the infrastructure for great applications!

If you can combine this with some experience on cloud infrastructure, we’re very interested to meet for a coffee! 😊

Apart from that, since we’re a small team and we strongly believe that software development is a team sport and it is important for you to be self organised and enjoy interacting with other human beings.

This also includes a strong ability to find pragmatic solutions for complex problems and being able to accept that there are always multiple ways to achieve a given goal.

For us this also includes, that no one should be afraid of failures. As a team we only should try not to repeat them.

You should also be able to speak English fluently (and from time to time it can come in handy to speak a few words in German).

Benefits

• a competitive salary.
• flexible working hours.
• time for working on Open Source projects during our regular Open Fridays and
• you can choose the gear you like.
• Implementing web applications means hard work, so we always make sure to have enough coffee, fruits, Club Mate & snacks in the office and at our place we also hold regular Board Game evenings for those interested.
• Great! Simply fill in the application form below and we will get in touch within a week.

What we then usually do is to start with a quick chat via Skype (or whatever channel works) to get to know each other and for you to ask any question that might come to mind.

If we all agree to proceed we would invite you for a coding challenge, which allows us to have a second more indepth discussion with you about your work.

And that’s basically all the application process there is.