Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in France.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and continually enhance our CI/CD pipelines and delivery workflows, ensuring quick feedback loops and secure deployments.

• Develop and improve the local developer experience, facilitating seamless service spin-up, testing, and debugging for engineers across various languages and frameworks.

• Manage and sustain a portion of our cloud infrastructure and container orchestration platforms utilizing Terraform and Kubernetes. This role will also involve identifying and resolving infrastructure-related production issues and performance troubleshooting, as well as upgrading our platforms for long-term stability.

• Serve as a technical reference and advance engineering standards by being a trusted collaborator for product engineering teams on delivery and infrastructure best practices, sharing knowledge and providing guidance.

• Foster a culture of technical curiosity by regularly assessing, benchmarking, and prototyping emerging technologies to equip the team with the best tools and promote continuous learning across the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant experience, preferably in DevOps or Platform Engineering.

• Proven ability to take charge of cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, driving complex projects from conception to delivery while collaborating with multiple teams.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in designing, building, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines from start to finish (using GitHub Actions or similar tools).

• Strong practical experience in creating robust automation pipelines and modernizing local development environments.

• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (not limited to Terraform) and container orchestration (not limited to Kubernetes) (Nice to have).

• Familiarity with an observability and monitoring stack (such as Datadog, Prometheus, or equivalent) (Nice to have).

• Experience with local development environment tools (like Nix, mise, asdf, devenv, devcontainers, etc.) (Nice to have).

• Working knowledge of at least one language from Alma's stack (Python, TypeScript, or PHP) — sufficient to read, debug, and contribute when necessary (Nice to have).

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a user-focused mindset where your users are your fellow engineers.

• A polyglot approach and a strong sense of curiosity: You enjoy exploring various codebases and stacks (Python, TypeScript, PHP, etc.) and are eager to discover new tools to tackle delivery engineering challenges.

• Fluent in French (primary working language).

• Good proficiency in English for documentation, inter-team communication, technical reading, writing, and presentations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fixed salary based on a 12-month period.

• Profit sharing and employee savings plan: eligibility after 3 months for the following year.

• Health insurance: fully covered by Alma.

• Disability insurance: fully covered by Alma.

• Sports benefits: partnerships with Gymlib and Classpass, or a reimbursement of €30/month for your sports activities.

• Maternity/paternity leave: salary maintained at 100%, without seniority conditions.

• Sustainable Mobility Package (FMD): €544.80/year (excluding full-remote contracts).

• Meal vouchers: €10/day, with 50% covered by Alma.

• Leave: 25 days/year plus RTT.

• Access to the Learning & Development Platform.

• Up to 2 weeks of full remote work possible per year (during summer).

• Full remote work is an option.