Agile Software-Development and IT-Operations made in Berlin

About us

What is key to every business success? It is keeping focus on what you are best at and leave your competitors behind. Many freelancers and small business owners are forced to do everything themselves resulting in loss of focus and missed business opportunities. They can’t use their time efficiently because they get distracted by incoming calls, messages and mails or miss on opportunities because they were not able to answer that one call that would have been the next big deal.

Our powerful and constantly developing software as a service communication platform is for more than 20 years a catalyst for success in that our customers never miss an opportunity while being able to maintain focus and concentrate on their core activities.

Tasks

Your challenge: 

Collaborating with our designers, you will create interfaces that make it fun and satisfying to interact with our services. Communication with the back-end is done through a REST-API, which you will help to extend. You will build new web-apps for our customers using JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 by leveraging modern technologies like Angular or NativeScript. Great user experience is key.

Requirements

Your profile: 

• • You are fluent in web technologies like HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript
  • Knowledge of Angular and Nativescript is an asset
  • You have multiple years of working experience in frontend development
  • You are able to use REST-based backend services (if you can do it in Java it's a plus)
  • You think pragmatically and constantly look for the best solution
  • You feel responsibility for our products and have the willingness to participate in architectural discussions and decisions

It’s a match, if we share some core beliefs:

• Treat your teammates as you’d like to be treated.
• Be a good mentor and coach to your team.
• People before technology & Smart solutions over ideology
• Clear and transparent communication and expectations.
• Being a team player and not a lonesome hero.
• Contributing your favourite idea to a discussion with colleagues is about creating something bigger, not about telling others how great you are or how things should be done.
• Agile Methods like Scrum or Kanban are a tool to improve the product step by step and flexible, not a religion.
• No discussion, no honey

Benefits

Your perks:

• Choose what's best for your: MacBook or PC?
• Ride a bike or a train: we provide a bike or public transport ticket
• Stay healthy and relaxed: we support Urban Sports Club
• Become a Foam master or Bartender: enjoy the best coffee machine and beer from tap in our office
• Level up your skills: we will get you eye-opening books
• Take a course: we will support your hunger for education
• You need some holidays? 28 days for everyone
• You don´t smoke? Get one extra day off
• You have hobbies and a family? Great. We have core hours to maintain flexibility

Sounds terrifying? Bummer! We’re sorry to hear that.

Sounds terrific? Great! Get in touch.

We at Pinguin are fostering diversity and are committed to create teams with a broad variety of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and skills. All decisions about interviews, offers and employment are based on expertise, merit and business need

Your profile: 

• You have already gained first experiences with IT support 
• You’ve seen a university from the inside or completed vocational training in a relevant field  
• You’re experienced with Windows, Linux and MacOS  
• Ideally, you’ve worked with a ticket system like Jira before  
• English is a must, German a plus 

Your perks: 

• Choose what's best for your: MacBook or PC? iPhone or Google Pixel? 
• Ride a bike or a train: bike or public transport ticket is provided 
• Stay healthy and relaxed: Urban Sports Club is supported 
• Level up your skills with eye-opening books or take a course: your hunger for education will be supported 
• You need some holidays? 28 days for everyone 
• You don´t smoke? Get one extra day off 
• You have hobbies and a family? Great. Core hours let you maintain your flexibility 

We are looking for a (Junior) DevOps Engineer (f,m,x)!

In a world full of distractions, we have something outstanding to offer: focus.

With our office & communication tools, we enable small and medium enterprises to direct their attention towards what really matters. Our SaaS solutions have been on the market for 20 years.

Our software-platform is built in Java, running on hundreds of servers, clients, and our own data centers. Now we want to bring our services to the next level.

This is what your challenges would look like:

#1 Leveling-up our existing infrastructure is your number one priority.

#2 As soon as we are on the same page concerning the how, when, and what we gradually move our services to AWS. 

#3 You ensure a close collaboration between our development and admin teams.

#4 Automating as much as possible is something you should look into. At the moment, we are thinking of using Puppet, Foreman, Terraform, and Ansible.

These are our priorities for now. Do you have a better idea? Let us know - you’re the expert!

Your mission:  

• You will ensure continuous integration and continuous delivery while supporting our software engineers
• You will implement DevOps concepts and develop great ideas about how to improve our stack 
• You will improve automation and provide high availability 
• You will monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure with Icinga2, Grafana, Graylog and similar tools
• You are willing to introduce new technology, especially cloud-based solutions with AWS and Azure
• Last but not least: our entire infrastructure lies in your hands

Your profile: 

• You consider DevOps more of a mindset and always strive to make the developers‘ jobs easier
• You have gained first experience with DevOps mindset and its tools
• You have a good understanding of CI/CD principles 
• You have experience with cloud technologies like AWS and Azure 
• You´ve worked with automation tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Foreman 
• You’ve operated with database technologies such as NoSQL, MongoDB 
• You´ve implemented high availability solutions with HAProxy and keepalive 
• You are a snake charmer and can handle any „Python“ that crosses your path ;)

Your perks: 

• You can choose what's best for you: MacBook or PC? 
• You ride a bike or train? We provide a bike or public transport ticket for you 
• You want to stay fit and relaxed? Great, we support Urban Sports Club 
• You want to level up your skills? No problem, we support your hunger for education 
• You need some holidays? 28 days for everyone; You don´t smoke? Get one extra day off 
• You have hobbies and a family? Great. We have core hours to maintain flexibility 
• Apart from the usual perks – great coffee, drinks and healthy snacks – you will join an international company where we focus on our people  

Sounds terrifying? Bummer! We’re sorry to hear that. 

Sounds terrific? Great! Get in touch. 

Pinguin AG fosters diversity and is committed to create teams with a broad variety of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and skills. All decisions about interviews, offers and employment are based on expertise, merit and business need.

Your challenges:

We are a small company working in small teams. We believe that a pleasant atmosphere helps teams to be effective and creative. We are curious to hear about your ideas on how to foster that. Helping others and learning from each other is as meaningful as providing reliable systems. This will be your first challenge.

Tech-wise, our software platform is build in Java running on more than 400 Debian Servers and 600 diskless Ubuntu-Linux Clients. We are operating a SaaS telephony service platform, two data center and several international office locations. Proving reliable infrastructure and high availability is key to our overall success and your second challenge - thousands of customers rely on you. Also, our Software Engineers will benefit from your expertise about how to provide stable infrastructure, servers, REST micro-services, test and build systems.

While you need to keep the existing infrastructure running, we will work together on automating as much as possible. Managing automation projects will be your third and most important challenge. Right now, we are using Puppet, Foreman, Terraform and Ansible. You know how to get the most value from these tools? Let us know - you’re the expert!

Your responsibilities:

• Own and run our entire infrastructure
• Manage and maintain our heterogenous system landscape and its security
• Increase levels of automation and high availability
• Level up and automate our infrastructure with Puppet and Ansible
• Introduce new technology, especially cloud-based solutions with AWS and Azure
• Implement DevOps concepts
• Develop great ideas about how to improve our stack

Things you’ve experienced already:

• You know how to support a good team spirit
• You´ve multiple years in administration of Linux servers with setups of several hundred servers
• You´ve worked with automation tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Foreman
• You monitor infrastructure with Icinga2, Grafana, Graylog and similar tools
• You write your scripts with Bash or Python
• You´ve operated MySQL database servers and Apache webservers
• You´ve implemented high availability solutions with HAProxy and keepalive
• You´ve managed Firewalls, VPNs, OSPF, BGP with Ansible
• You even know a bit about using AWS with Terraform , AWS Route 53 and S3

It’s a match, if we share core beliefs:

• We maintain a start-up mindset, 80:20 is our 100%
• The only constancy in our company is change.
• Growth is the basis for our development.
• We like to go the extra mile for our mutual success.
• No discussion, no honey. We are no place for know-it-alls and Hierarchy-people.
• We participate and accept responsibilities.