Overview

Holidu is a travel-tech start-up founded in Munich, Germany. Together with our team, we strive to revolutionize the vacation rental industry by helping hosts manage their vacation rental with ease and guests find the perfect holiday home. In October 2022, we secured a €100 million Series E funding, making us one of the fastest growing travel-tech companies in Europe. Our team of travel enthusiasts from 50+ nations is united by a passion for modern technologies, an ambition for constant improvement and the drive to bring the best experience to more than 100 million users each year. Want to achieve amazing things together with us? Then pack your bag, hop on board and get ready for take off!

Your future team
You will be leading the DevOps team, and in this role you will be collaborating with all Holidu teams, supporting them with new solutions as well as helping them to keep their apps running. Together your objective is to build the best products for our customers. Holidu highly values a diverse and open environment with people from all over the world.

Our Tech Stack
Microservice architecture written with Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS.
Search engine runs on Elasticsearch cluster.
Frontend written in ReactJS & Redux.
Native Android, native iOS and a React native application.
Data storages with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis and Redshift.
Jenkins, Terraform, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, heavy usage of AWS.
Serverless with Amazon Lambda.
Monitoring with ELK, Prometheus/Grafana/Thanos and own technologies.
BigData and Machine/Deep Learning with Redshift, Spark and TensorFlow.

Your role in this journey
You will be a hands-on leader for the DevOps team which is fully responsible for technologies, systems and environments that help Holidu to scale up as fast as possible.
You will be responsible for hiring, managing and mentoring DevOps engineers.
You will be driving the agenda of the team by applying agile processes and working with multiple engineering managers across the whole tech organization.
You will develop and establish concepts for smooth and performant development, test and production environment.
You will be responsible for our AWS environment (dev, test and live) and will be responsible for securing it.
You will improve (and develop it further) our existing monitoring environment to keep control over our infrastructure.
You will help to design and implement new solutions on future projects.
You will help developers on their builds, deployments and trouble shootings.

Your backpack is filled with
Finished studies in Computer Science, or related fields and multiple years of development or infrastructure experience after or during your studies.
Professional experience as DevOps at least on the Senior level (AWS, K8S, CI/CD, monitoring, security, infrastructure as code).
Practical experience in managing team of at least 2 engineers.
Experience with leading projects and/or mentoring other team members.
Practical experience with Agile/Scrum or strong motivation to learn and apply it.
Good scripting and programming knowledge very beneficial.
You work with a problem-solving attitude, have a strong sense of responsibility and enjoy exploring new ways of reaching goals.
Our adventure includes
Have an impact on the millions of people using our product every month.
Grow with responsibility from day one and develop yourself further through regular feedback, workshops and knowledge exchange.
Use your personal development budget and two extra days off to enhance your professional skills by visiting conferences, buying books, attending courses and more.
Connect and have fun with international, diverse and yet like-minded people at work, regular events and weekly office days with your team.
Get to know the world with our flexible home office policy and the opportunity to work from other local offices.
Get in shape with a premium gym membership for a discounted rate.
Go travelling for 28 vacation days + 13 public holidays in Bavaria with interesting discounts on our Bookiply properties.
Get a sneak peek at the adventure that awaits you on Instagram @lifeatholidu.