System Administrator - DevOps 80% - 100%

Direct applications are preferred.

MF Group is a Swiss market leader in the Buy Now Pay Later universe, with a monthly transaction volume of more than 50 million of Swiss Francs.
MF Group services allow 14 million customers to pay by invoice goods and services using MF Group payment methods.
More than 3000 merchants in Europe benefit of our partnership.

Our systems must support

• ~ 500'000 transactions/month 
• ~ 600'000 invoices/month
• ~ 250 requests/minute 

To support the growth of our business we are looking for a System Administrator - DevOps who will contribute to our mission of being a company that scales sustainably.

Main responsibilities include 

• Keep systems operational 24x7 to enable engineer to provide high level service to our customers
• Expand and maintain observability infrastructure: tracing, metrics, and other introspection tooling
• Develop and operate scalable authentication solutions
• Work closely with the developers teams to expand and maintain CI/CD pipeline using tools like GitLab, Teamcity
• Automate and improve deploy systems using tools like Puppet, Ansible, etc.
• Work closely with the developers teams to improve our platforms and eliminate complexity from architecture and processes
• Create, manage, and monitor high-availability (HA) system & database clusters
• Investigating new technologies 

We offer a challenging professional work opportunity in a dynamic and informal atmosphere as well as further career development. 

We are looking for

• Deep experience administering Linux (Centos, RHEL, Ubuntu) systems
• Knowledge of web application technology, (i.e. Tomcat, nginx, haproxy etc.) 
• Experience with modern authentication mechanisms and protocols (e.g. Keycloak)
• Experience setting up replication, sharding and other high availability solutions
• Experience with an observability stack (e.g. ELK, Grafana, New Relic, etc)
• Good communication and inter-personal skills
• Not afraid to wear multiple hats (e.g. developer, analyst, etc.)
• Fluency in English 

Nice to have 

• Deep knowledge of Java
• Deep knowledge of RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL)
• Experience working with Docker and/or Kubernetes 
• MS Degree in Computer Science or Engineering 

What we offer

• An agile working enviroment where value is delivered every couple of days 
• The opportunity to work on critical systems that handle tens of thousands of millions of francs per month and are expected to be available 24/7
• We want to grow together: we support your development with trainings from the Bertlesmann University (through e-learning platforms as Coursera, Udacity, Harvard Business School, etc) and individual training opportunities
• For more flexibility and freedom we offer you modern workplace models with about 40% Mobile Office
• A lunch-check card to buy your meals with 50% discount (the other 50% is on us!)
• A Reka card to enjoy your bonus in your spare time
• Half the price of your public transportation pass is on us
• Free coffee, tea, fuit and snacks! And if you love to bring your home-made meal, in our office you will find a complete kitchen with microwaves, dishwasher, fridges, etc.