DevOps Engineer

Your Job

At Channable we have over 100 developers, building and launching features at a rapid pace to meet the demands of our customers in an ever-changing eCommerce environment.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be contributing to the improvement and scaling of our cloud infrastructure and the smooth operation of our tool. You will also help us improve and fine-tune our processes from provisioning, building and deploying, to monitoring and alerting.

We are specifically looking for someone to join the Developer Experience (DevEx) team. We believe that developers should be able to focus on building new features and that everything else, like deploying these features, should be as frictionless and automated as possible.

As part of the DevEx team, that is what you will be working on.

You are expected to find the right tool for the different processes, or to write a custom one if it doesn’t exist yet. You have experience developing software in a professional setting and know what makes for a good developer experience. We are looking for someone who can be proactive, autonomous, and keen to be a part of our DevEx team!

Your challenges

Summarized, your tasks will include (but not be limited to) the following:

• Automating building, testing, provisioning, and deploying of our services

• Managing our infrastructure as code (that can be reviewed and version-controlled)

• Hardening and securing our internal and external systems

• Improving and maintaining our monitoring and alerting systems

• Developing new tools that help us make the process of building software even more efficient and enjoyable

If you want to read more about our development adventures, check out our tech blog: https://tech.channable.com/ You can also take a look at some of our open-source work at https://github.com/channable to get a feeling of how we work together and what our code looks like.

Job Requirements

Ideally, you have experience in software development and in keeping a complex distributed application running and secure at all times. You should be interested in declarative infrastructure, reproducible builds, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), dynamic resource scaling, security best practices, and general robustness of a distributed system. In more concrete terms, we expect you to have the following:

• Commitment to high quality engineering

• Experience with CI systems such as Semaphore, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Travis

• Solid programming skills in Python

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tooling, such as Ansible and Terraform.

• Good understanding of networking concepts and protocols (SSH, DNS, SSL/TLS, HTTP, etc.)

• Deep knowledge of Linux and system administration tools such as e.g. apt, systemd and bash

• Familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL

• Security-awareness and familiarity with concepts like defense-in-depth and the principle of least privilege

• EU citizenship or a work permit, preferably already living in The Netherlands

• Available for at least 32 hours per week

And then there are some things that are ‘nice to have’:

• Experience in managing infrastructure with either GCP, AWS, or Azure

• Knowledge of Hashicorp tools, i.e. Consul, Nomad, Vault, and Terraform

• Familiarity with build tools such as Nix

• Experience using the Nix package manager

• Experience using databases like PostgreSQL and Redis

• Hands-on experience with distributed systems

Who are we?

Channable was founded 10 years ago in the heart of Utrecht. We are now a strong team of 250+ diverse individuals, and more than 40 nationalities.

Joining Channable means you’re looking for a bit more than just a job. Diverse as we are, we all share our love for growth, to help, to take ownership, and create an awesome journey together. Feel free to take a further look at who we are here and on our Instagram, Facebook or Linkedin!

We employ a continuous integration pipeline that allows us to quickly and safely deploy features, updates and fixes several times per day. Our infrastructure is running on Google Cloud Platform and we strive to automate each part of the software development process as much as possible.

What do we offer?

• Gross salary of 4.586 - 6.414 euros based on your experience (based on 40 h/w)

• Tailor-made and comprehensive onboarding for you to be successful in your new role.

• A €1.000 annual Individual Learning & Development budget

• Stock Appreciation Rights: eligible employees can financially profit from Channable’s success

• Saving for old age - yes, we provide an extra 5% of your monthly base salary

• Company-wide bonus

• Once every 10 weeks, you can use your creativity during our internal Hackathon day

• 26 vacation days + 2 reload days based on 40 hours, and on top of this; you are allowed to go for a 3-week-long workation and an extra 3 weeks if you're an expat living in the Netherlands!

• Are you going to become a parent? We think it is important that you spend time with your newborn. Enjoy 5 weeks of 100% paid partner leave.

• To work in a beautiful historic and fully renovated office in the heart of Utrecht & with a flexible hybrid working policy of (minimum 2 days in the office).

• Since you can work from home for 3 days a week, we will provide home office supplies.

• Having flexible working hours means starting your day between 8.00–10.00 am.

• We want you to feel good - please feel free to use our discounted OneFit subscription. You also have free & anonymous access to the OpenUp platform, and psychologists. This free service is also available to your family members.

• Traveling to our office? No problem, we got you covered.

• Channaweekend (we will go abroad in 2024 for a long weekend with all the colleagues from all over the world).

• Additional working conditions like great lunch, massages, in-office bar (Channabar), parties, yoga lessons, sports teams, video games, and many more!

How can you introduce yourself to us?

Are you interested? Please apply by clicking on the "apply now" button below. Please send your application in English.

If it's a match, Giordano (Tech Talent Acquisition Partner) will get in touch with you for an introduction call. After that, you'll be invited for interviews. We look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible! Contact by job agencies and recruiters will not be appreciated. Each recruiter or headhunter who approaches us agrees with a donation of € 250,- for Make-A-Wish.

Note: As part of this process, we would like to check 2 references from your previous employers.

Contact by job agencies and recruiters will not be appreciated. Each recruiter or headhunter who approaches us agrees with a donation of € 250,- for Make-A-Wish.

At Channable, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration and we believe in diverse and inclusive teams.