devops engineer in eCommerce

Sunday Natural is a German natural health brand that develops and manufactures natural, high-quality products such as essential oils and vitamins. The company operates its own research and development department in Berlin, collaborates with research institutes and specialists, and offers a predominantly vegan product range with largely recyclable glass packaging.

• Define and defend the infrastructure vision, including how systems are run, deployed, monitored, and scaled;
• Work with two external partners as the in-house technical counterpart;
• Build architecture and standards with external partners and transfer platform knowledge into the company;
• Take the technical direction of the external partner group as the platform grows;
• Own the AWS spend, including allocation and cost reduction;
• Act as the escalation point and make decisions when production is at risk;
• Own AWS infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, Fargate, CloudFront, S3, IAM, Cloudflare, DNS, and WAF;
• Strengthen security and compliance through DevSecOps practices, system audits, patching, access reviews, and GDPR-compliant data handling;
• Move infrastructure from manual management to fully Terraform-defined infrastructure;
• Tune, replicate, back up, and restore MySQL under production load;
• Optimise cloud costs within the annual AWS budget;
• Support delivery for 30+ developers through Bitbucket Pipelines and environment management;
• Ensure reliability for 7M MAU through monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response;
• Run the on-call and post-incident processes;
• Define standards for other engineers and external partners and enforce them.

• 7+ Years of experience running production infrastructure;
• Deep hands-on AWS experience with accountability for production incidents;
• Experience with security-conscious infrastructure operations, DevSecOps practices, system audits, and access reviews;
• Experience handling GDPR-relevant data;
• Scalable infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform as the default working approach;
• Deep Linux experience with Debian or Ubuntu;
• Ability to trace slow systems from the kernel level and explain the findings;
• Strong MySQL experience under real load, including slow-query analysis, replication, indexing, and tested recovery;
• Experience owning monitoring and incident response at scale;
• Experience building proactive alerting with tools such as New Relic and Datatog;
• Experience running on-call and post-incident processes;
• Experience defining and enforcing technical standards for internal teams or external partners;
• Nice to have: PHP-FPM / Magento 2 performance tuning, Varnish and Redis at scale, cloud cost optimisation at six-figure annual spend, AWS architecture certification, SIEM tooling such as Wazuh, direct-to-consumer eCommerce or other high-traffic system operations.

• Product discounts, including discounts of up to more than 50 percent on selected brands;
• 28 Days of paid time off per year plus up to 5 additional days off between Christmas and New Year;
• Urban Sports Club membership;
• Choice of Swapfiets bike rental or a subsidy for the Deutschlandticket;
• Up to two weeks per year working from abroad;
• Real ownership, room for new initiatives, and the opportunity to implement ideas;
• Regular tea and office parties, Christmas and summer celebrations, and influencer events.