Junior/Mid-Level DevOps Engineer - Remote

Overview

At Blinkist, we're passionate about creating products that inspire millions to learn and grow. We’re looking for someone to join our platform enablement (DevOps) team, filling a new role to ensure our engineers have all the tools they need to ship their code in a timely and efficient manner.

In Short

• Manage and maintain entire Blinkist infrastructure (e.g. DataDog, Cloudflare, AWS, Terraform)
• Act as a consultant to engineers: Respond to engineering requests for assistance, access, or clarification on platform requirements/settings.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting systems: Define SLOs; Set up DataDog dashboards; Add Monitors; etc.
• Document infrastructure and processes: Maintain clear, up-to-date documentation to ensure knowledge sharing and quick engineer/team onboarding.
• Collaborate with Backend/Mobile/Web engineers to ensure platform efficiency and observability.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools: Research and recommend new technologies that improve developer efficiency or infrastructure reliability.
• Create and optimize developer workflows (e.g. deployments, secret management, security scanning, AI tools, etc.)
• Perform cost optimizations: Analyze AWS/Cloudflare usage and recommend solutions to reduce costs without sacrificing performance.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of work experience.
• 1+ years of DevOps experience: Ideally you have already built and scaled production systems.
• Proficient in at least one programming language.
• Docker experience: Strong knowledge of creating and maintaining Dockerfiles and multi-stage builds.
• Terraform experience: Familiarity with designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure as code.
• Willingness and enthusiasm for supporting engineers and their teams.
• Collaborative approach: Enjoy working with others to solve problems.
• Proficiency in English (the Blinkist working language).

Benefits

• 30 PTO days + Wellbeing days + Learning days
• Flexible approach to work, including from abroad
• Monthly transport allowance
• One-time work from home office set up budget
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Professional development fund
• Family planning & parental leave, plus support for parents returning to work
• Wellness initiatives and an Employee Assistance Program