Senior DevOps Engineer

About us 

Launched in 2019 by four co-founders, experts in the retail and marketplace sectors, Ankorstore has established itself as Europe’s leading B2B platform connecting brands and independent retailers.

Ankorstore is built on a simple yet vital insight: independent retailers are essential to the vibrancy and attractiveness of our town centres. However, faced with evolving consumer habits and the dominance of mass retail and e-commerce, these local businesses often struggle to adapt and innovate.

To address this challenge, Ankorstore has developed an innovative, global, and technology-driven solution that enables independent retailers to diversify their product ranges while benefiting from competitive commercial terms. Brands, in turn, benefit from a strong network and efficient tools to extend their reach and boost their activity.

By empowering retailers to compete with major players, Ankorstore aims to transform long-term collaboration between brands and retailers !

The Team

The Platform Squad within the Tech Department is integral to Ankorstore's commitment to revolutionizing the retail industry through technology.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be at the heart of our operations, working with cutting-edge technologies to enhance our platform's reliability, efficiency, and scalability.

Our team is a cross-functional group that supports every team at Ankorstore, acting as internal consultants and delivering customized solutions that impact the entire company.

Main responsibilities

• Engage in the automation of processes using an advanced technology stack including GCP, Kubernetes, Istio, FluxCD, and the LGTM-stack, aiming to minimize manual intervention

• Collaborate with product teams to address technical challenges, design new systems, and improve the scalability, observability, and alerting of our systems

• Work within the Platform Squad to provide essential services to all Ankorstore teams, enhancing the platform's reliability and performance

• Drive initiatives to reduce ongoing toil and focus on strategic improvements that matter.

• Participate in on-call rotations (daily rotation across all engineers) for handling incidents, contributing to our goal of achieving operational excellence and high availability

Ankorstore tech stack :

• Front-end: Vue.js, Typescript, Vuex, sass, webpack

• Back-end: PHP 8.3, Laravel 10, Golang

• Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch

• Tools: Github, CircleCI, LGTM-Stack, Sentry, Notion, Tanka/Jsonnet

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience, working in cloud computing environments, preferably GCP.

• Professional experience in Kubernetes.

• Ability to code, preferably, but not limited, in Go, and a good understanding of cloud deployments, containerization, and orchestration.

• Experience with modern DevOps tools and practices, including GitOps (especially FluxCD),  Kubernetes Operators and the Grafana stack.

• A proactive attitude towards teamwork and open-mindedness, with a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

• A positive and enthusiastic approach, with a readiness to learn and contribute to team success. Should demonstrate a commitment to improving their technical and customer service skills.

• Fluent in English, with problem-solving skills and the ability to think outside the box.

Benefits/Perks 

At Ankorstore we offer a versatile range of benefits to support employees' well-being and work-life balance, fostering personal growth within an innovative and adaptable work environment.

• We are a remote-friendly company (3 days at the office), and you will have an hybrid contract, based in Paris

• All of our employees are automatically covered by Health Insurance & Life Insurance. Our Health Insurance (Mutuelle) and Life Insurance (Prévoyance) are SideCare

• We have partnered with Swile to provide you with meal vouchers

• You will have access to Leeto a platform that provides you with exclusive discounts, cultural activities, holiday vouchers and more

• Paid leaves + RTT

• Modern offices located in Paris (Opéra), providing a vibrant and inspiring work environment

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Learning more about Ankorstore 

• Look around and visit our website, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and Welcome to the Jungle

• Read about us in the media: How to build a 2 billion unicorn in under 3 years, Rewild Retail, Ankorstore is shaping the shopping of the future, Mary Portas & Ankorstore

Ankorstore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to promoting diversity. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.