NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within Europe to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within Europe.
Hostaway is the market-leading SaaS scale-up transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we’re taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.
As a profitable and growing company, this role is necessitated by our continued growth. Check out more about our recent funding round of $365 million here.

5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools and methodologies.

• AWS professional expertise is a hard requirement, knowing best practices and having used it at scale. The more AWS you know the better. GCP knowledge is a plus but not required.
• Extensive experience in Terraform / OpenTofu for infrastructure as code. You should have experience with modules, and managing different environments in a production setup. Terragrunt knowledge a plus but not required.
• Understanding of classic sysadmin topics: Linux administration, knowledge of networking stack, Bash scripting, security best practices.
• Professional experience with Kubernetes is required. Knowledge of Helm, ArgoCD a plus.
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring/logging tools and working knowledge of the SRE approach to reliability (golden signals, tackling toil, customer focus).
• The ideal candidate will have familiarity with at least one scripting language and be able to understand and debug production code to help identify issues.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and responding to production incidents within a blameless culture that focuses on process and technology improvements.
• Willingness to embrace and learn new technologies as the DevOps landscape evolves.
• Fluent English and outstanding communication skill

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a member of the DevOps team you will be part of a team that is largely responsible for keeping Hostaway secure, reliable and iterating fast. The DevOps team works with an agile and collaborative approach where we incrementally improve things. As a senior member of the team you will be expected to proactively identify gaps, come up with better solutions and be involved in all stages of planning, provisioning, deployment and monitoring of our infrastructure stack and more. At Hostaway we want the DevOps team to be an enabling team to the rest of engineering, providing reliable tools that allow other engineers to move fast, doing the right thing. If this sounds exciting check out our requirements!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Actively participate in design decisions concerning our infrastructure, infrastructure security, and leveraging modern infrastructure practices and DevOps methodologies where applicable. (Containerization, Configuration Management, CI/CD, IaC, Monitoring)
• Assist the development teams with containerization efforts, maintain reliable Kubernetes clusters that are easy for the teams to use.
• Be an ambassador for reliability across the company, help with design decisions that improve observability and work with teams to create and maintain actionable alerts and runbooks.
• Lead collaborative efforts with the development team to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring streamlined and high-performance software delivery.
• Drive toil down and have an automation-first mindset when approaching problems.
• Resolve critical issues across various platforms and environments, addressing challenges such as unavailability, outages, inconsistencies, misconfigurations, data delays. Be an active participant in incident management and in improving it.

5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools and methodologies.

• AWS professional expertise is a hard requirement, knowing best practices and having used it at scale. The more AWS you know the better. GCP knowledge is a plus but not required.
• Extensive experience in Terraform / OpenTofu for infrastructure as code. You should have experience with modules, and managing different environments in a production setup. Terragrunt knowledge a plus but not required.
• Understanding of classic sysadmin topics: Linux administration, knowledge of networking stack, Bash scripting, security best practices.
• Professional experience with Kubernetes is required. Knowledge of Helm, ArgoCD a plus.
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring/logging tools and working knowledge of the SRE approach to reliability (golden signals, tackling toil, customer focus).
• The ideal candidate will have familiarity with at least one scripting language and be able to understand and debug production code to help identify issues.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and responding to production incidents within a blameless culture that focuses on process and technology improvements.
• Willingness to embrace and learn new technologies as the DevOps landscape evolves.
• Fluent English and outstanding communication skills