Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialised in creating amazing experiences and unforgettable memories - from hotels, city breaks and holidays to theatre, entertainment and spa days. Experts in brightening up online travel, lastminute.com is among the worldwide leaders in the field, helping hundreds of thousands of customers every year find, and do, "whatever makes them pink".

lastminute.com is part of lm group, publicly-traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry. Every month, the Group reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 60 million unique users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences. More than 1,200 people enjoy working with us and contribute to provide our audience with a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel-related products and services.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment of inclusion across race, gender, age sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

 *Please note that is a full remote working position/on-site*

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To support and participate in company-wide Continuous Deployment introductions and SRE projects we are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with certified experience as SRE  for our Technology department.

“Hope is not a strategy. Engineering solutions to design, build, and maintain efficient large-scale systems is a true strategy, and a good one.”

Key Responsibilities 

• As Site Reliability Engineers we are responsible for the availability, performances, monitoring, and incident response of the platform and services running on multiple environments.
• Improve infrastructure automation and automate repetitive tasks and build a scalable infrastructure
• Improve and evolve the Self-Service Capabilities to developers and other stakeholders
• Collaborate closely with architects, developers, database administrators in order to handle the reliability and scalability of the infrastructure.
• Working closely with the Infrastructure team to define and implement solutions necessary for the success of the development teams.
• Participate in periodic on-call duties

Essential

• + 3 years experience as DevOps
• Strong Experience with Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, RHEL) internals and administration
• Strong knowledge in web application and high traffic web architecture
• Strong knowledge  of Docker and Orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes preferred, Openshift, Nomad)
• Experience working in microservices-based architectures
• Good understanding of  configuration management tools, Ansible, IAC tools (Terraform) and their best practices
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience using  Continuous delivery and deployment tools like GitlabCI, Spinnaker or similar (CircleCI / GoCD / Github Actions …)
• Experience in Virtualization technologies (Vmware)
• Good Knowledge of languages like Go, Python and system scripting languages
• Good Knowledge of major public cloud providers technologies  (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Good Knowledge of data centre management
• Experience with traditional and modern website architecture
• Familiarity with Centralized logs solutions (Fluentd, Logstash, Splunk)
• Familiarity  understanding of change management and incident management processes
• Familiarity with observability

Desirable

• Travel domain experience
• Certifications in one of the above-described fields
• Good understanding of hybrid cloud architecture
• Vmware NSX
• Sysadmin background

Abilities/qualities

• Good communication skills, written and verbal     
• Enthusiasm to learn new technologies
• Attitude to teamwork and ability to work in multi-location teams

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

• Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
• Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
• Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
• Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning
• Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
• Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
• Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
• Benefit from employee discounts on travel
• Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
• Receive a bonus after 5 and one after 10 years in the company
• Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices
• Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events
• Benefit from extended parental or marriage leave