RELEX Solutions create cutting-edge supply chain and retail planning software. Within our platforms, we have the power and potential to increase adaptability, efficiency and sustainability in the consumer goods and retail value chain. Our impact is tangible; from sustainability and eliminating waste to delighting customers and delivering great tailored tech solutions, we’re curious and passionate challenge-seekers creating the future of retail today.
Our Technology Team:
Our Technology team enjoy a challenge. They’re hungry to learn, and don’t hesitate to ask what, why, and how. They get to work with our unique, in-house database engine to create high-quality scalable code (just imagine, thousands of stores, millions of products, and billions of rows of raw data!) Their expertise positively impacts the environment and business processes around the world; alongside international colleagues, they drive change and develop solutions that become our pioneering end product. From functional programming, machine learning and interesting algorithms, to building big data pipelines, they’re behind it all. They can work in a flexible way, remote or in-office – after all, they contribute to all our achievements, so we reward them with genuine work-life balance and access to every opportunity.
We are now looking for a full-time DevOps Engineer into REST API Team in Shared Services department at our Helsinki or Lisbon office, to strengthen our expertise in platform and application development. REST API Team is building a mission-critical REST API, based on Go, as the next-generation integration point between our customers and RELEX core services. Our SLAs are strict, data amounts massive and we must guarantee data validity and timely delivery.Our services are hosted in public cloud on top of Kubernetes, but we are delivering data to various downstream applications in hybrid cloud infrastructure via Apache Kafka. To enable fast delivery and repeatability the team is maintaining infrastructure using Terraform principles and automating build and deployment pipelines in GitLab. In this role you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing our solution by applying changes to our infrastructure as code and automating processes and tools.
What you will be doing:
- Implementing changes to our Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Operating Kubernetes clusters.
- Actively participating in architecture design.
- Writing services that further process the data.
- Removing toil by automating processes and tools.
- Work with different teams, from different locations.
- Share your knowledge and learn new technologies/languages.
We’re looking for:
- A few years of hands-on experience in either DevOps, SRE work or software development, especially continuous delivery tools and practices.
- Understanding of automation through languages and tools (i.e. PowerShell, Bash, Terraform).
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code, practical experience with Kubernetes and containers is a plus.
- Interest in developing yourself, sharing knowledge with others and willingness to work as part of a team.
- Excellent communication skills in English.
What we consider as an advantage:
- Knowledge of Web services, REST API.
- Programming experience (e.g. Java, C#, Python, Rust, Go, TypeScript etc.).
- Experience in Cloud Infrastructure preferably Azure.
- Experience on messaging infrastructure such as Apache Kafka.
- Experience in Monitoring (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
RELEX Portugal
RELEXians can be found around the world, but here we’re based out of our brand new central office in Lisbon, where we act as a true extension of the Finnish team. With the metro close by and multiple workspaces – including a lounge and filled fridge – our office is a tech hub and a great place to problem-solve, enjoy work, and then socialise with workmates! Your future teammates make our culture what it is, and we make sure they feel valued and appreciated with lots of activities and gatherings and of course, the genuine flexibility that’s on offer.
Across RELEX, our people are supported and rewarded. In Portugal, we go even further. As well as:
- Competitive compensation aligned with Nordic countries’ salary levels.
- The choice to work wherever and however you are most productive.
- 25 days of Annual Leave.
We also provide life and health insurance for you, your significant other and your children and encourage taking one day a week for self-development or tech exploration. We offer two paid volunteer or charity days a year, contribute to your monthly home internet and data allowance and host monthly fun, friendly and varied socials in the office. But that’s not all.
Are you the one we’re looking for? Apply today and become a part of our RELEX family!
You can apply by sending your cover letter and resume through the application form as soon as possible, but no later than 9th of January 2025. Please note that we will start screening all applications after the application period.
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What We Do
RELEX Solutions is a leading provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software that’s built for the age of Living Retail, where change is the only constant. We help retailers adapt to every future, faster.
Our cloud-native Living Retail Platform delivers pragmatic AI across all retail functions and at retail scale, removing siloes, rigidities and inefficiencies along the way. We offer a fast lane to value that builds from a foundation of radically improved demand forecasting and supply chain optimization. Our customers leverage this enhanced supply chain visibility into exponential benefits — optimizing their space, allocation, workforce, pricing and promotion strategies, all within our unified platform.
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