Mid DevOps Engineer (m/f/x)

Are you enthusiastic about creating innovation?

Are you passionate about developing innovative digital products based on cutting-edge technologies?

And are you excited to drive growth in digital wealth management and deliver a unique customer experience?

If so, we can't wait to hear from you.

We are Whitebox, and we believe investing can be fun, simple, and low-risk.

Whitebox has started to make digital wealth management accessible to everyone and tailored to individual needs while keeping asset management simple, transparent, and inexpensive.

About Whitebox

Whitebox is one of the leading digital wealth managers in Germany.

We are a fast‑growing company with flat hierarchies, short decision‑making processes, and high personal responsibility of individual employees.

We work with a globally distributed and highly qualified software development team to revolutionize the investment industry.

We are looking for an exceptional Dev Ops Engineer who is passionate about designing and building digital financial services products to help drive our rapid growth.

Joining this team will put you at the forefront of fintech innovation.

You can scale a first‑in‑class product leveraging company assets and capabilities and drive significant value to the business.

Most importantly, your work will shape the future financial services landscape.

About the Role

Our software engineers are experts in the field of software engineering.

Through their experience, they can take technical leadership and set technical directions and priorities.

Solid communication skills enable them to consistently explain their decision‑making reasoning to their team members and a broader audience inside our organization.

They can establish, manage, and guide expectations, and their thorough knowledge of software development allows them to provide guidance and show us a path of continuous growth.

You will be part of an agile and distributed software development team.

You will be responsible for maintaining and optimizing our cloud environment while possessing expertise in relational database administration and security.

You will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, security, and scalability of our infrastructure.

Requirements

• +5 years of experience as a Dev Ops engineer focussing on managing and optimizing cloud environments.
• +3 years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with containerization technologies.
• Experience with building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Team City, or others.
• Experience with scripting and automation with Bash.
• Solid understanding of Dev Ops methodologies and best practices.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with technical and non‑technical team members.
• Self‑motivated and capable of working independently as part of a distributed team.
• Nice to have
• Experience with infrastructure provisioning tools like Terraform, AWS CDK, or Cloud Formation.
• Experience with network tools such as iptables, traceroute, ping, nmap, netstat, or tcpdump.
• Experience with provisioning tools like Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Salt, and others.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills with a solid understanding of cross‑platform issues.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Passion for company‑wide security, with a strong desire to promote and implement security best practices across the organization.
• Passion for taking responsibility and driving growth in a product company.
• At a glance
• Job overview

Experience: 5‑7 years

• Employment: Full‑time
• Team: Software Engineering
• Reports to: (not specified)
• Team size: 20+
• Your first week

The first week is about context: our organization's why, what, and how.

The first week is always exciting and challenging, and we want you to know the team and gain confidence that we will always have your back.

• You will
• meet with the team and have one‑on‑one conversations with everyone,
• become introduced to our business and upcoming challenges, and
• discuss the current objectives with our leadership team.
• Your first month

The first month is for orientation.

You will get to know the codebase, understand the reasons behind past design decisions, and understand our organization's context.

• In detail, you will
• work out all the particular areas of the codebase and functionality,
• elaborate on how all the pieces fit together,
• explore how it relates to the product and value we provide our customers.

In the first quarter, you will become fully integrated into your team and be able to work with everybody on our ongoing projects.

In line with this, you will also incorporate yourself into your chapter.

• You will
• start bringing value to our customers,
• move our projects forward, step by step,
• work towards your own goals raising the bar, and
• participate in engineering team meetings, defining our principles, goals, and how we want to work.

An exciting, challenging and varied job in a pleasant working environment with many opportunities for professional and personal development.

• We are a remote‑first company. Our engineering team is spread worldwide but works in similar time zones.
• This role focuses on relationships. Some colleagues prefer to work a few days a week in our office in Freiburg, Germany. Being able to come in once in a while is a strong plus.
• This position is a permanent, full‑time (40 h/wk) role.
• Thirty days of paid vacation.
• A attractive remuneration package and free choice of hardware.

Weekly manager one‑on‑ones, flat hierarchies, and an open‑door mentality.

Our company benefits

Individual learning budget and personal career development.

And, of course, fee‑free asset management.

Virtual get‑togethers and on‑site team activities.

Fairness with foreign colleagues and benefits that apply to all (no regional benefits).

Regular knowledge‑sharing sessions, communities of practice calls, and Freaky Fridays.

Interested in having a chat?

Please send us your CV together with your earliest starting date and salary expectations to jobs@whitebox. eu .

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