DevOps Engineer / Java Developer

At our global Digital Document Services (DDS) team, we provide cross-functional services for all Business and Functional Units within Schenker supporting them with our services as backbone for Schenker operations digital creation, distribution, archival and document access processes. Running initiatives and upcoming projects are thriving to further improve and boost our way of digitizing Schenker’s global digital document service management. 

As “Dev Ops / Java Developer” for Output Management (OM) & Document Management (DM) applications your role plays a critical part in achieving business success through reliable and efficient output & document management systems. You will be part of the Digital Document Services team ensuring high quality, efficiency and reliability for the applications which are used as core interface for Schenker biggest transport management systems e.g., for air & ocean business. You will be part of an international architectural and development focused team located in Warsaw/Poland and Essen & Frankfurt/Germany.

Your tasks:

• Act as a bridge between peer developers and the support team, playing a critical role during operational incidents by diagnosing issues and facilitating effective communications.
• Enhance Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows by automating build deployment & installing scripts to streamline the development process.
• Improve infrastructure monitoring by focusing on metrics and logs ensuring system health and performance.
• Work closely with developers enhancing application-level log analytics to help identify patterns, troubleshoot issues, and optimize application performance.
• Set up alerts for proactive monitoring of critical system workflows to prevent potential P1 & P2 incidents.
• Support the creation & improvement of dashboards for performance load testing, monitoring non-functional parameters, etc.
• Design, code, test, and maintain Java applications components.
• Contribute to peer code reviews and continuous integration.
• Maintain code quality standards across components.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues along with debugging and fixing defects.

Our requirements:

• A university degree in computer science, IT, or an equivalent education.
• 5-7 years of experience working as a Software Engineer and/or DevOps engineer.
• Good experience with GitLab for version control and CI/CD pipelines administration.
• Good experience at containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience in setup and configuring metrics monitoring using Prometheus exporters.
• Good experience in creating and maintaining dashboard using Grafana .
• Experience in Elastic stack (ELK) for Log ingestion and analytics using Logstash OpenSearch and Kibana
• Hands on experience in infrastructure as code (Terraform) libraries and scripting like PowerShell, Bash .
• Experience in AWS for cloud-based services such as EC2, RDS, SNS, SQS, S3, EFS.
• Strong in hands-on Java Programming, OOAD, SOLID, Clean coding concepts.
• Good Experience developing RESTful APIs with REST best practices.
• Good knowledge of SQL RDBMS database design, optimization, and query performance.
• Fluency in oral and written communication in English language.