About us 

Ankorstore is on a mission to rewild retail !

With decades of experience in retail and building marketplaces, in 2019 the Ankorstore founding team knew it was time to create a global wholesale solution – one that swings the balance in favour of independents and restores retail to its natural order !

They’ve created a new ecosystem that harnesses the power of modern technology to create a mutually beneficial community that reinvents the way brands and retailers work together. As a result, wild independents can thrive.

The Team

The Platform Squad within the Tech Department is integral to Ankorstore's commitment to revolutionizing the retail industry through technology.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be at the heart of our operations, working with cutting-edge technologies to enhance our platform's reliability, efficiency, and scalability.

Our team is a cross-functional group that supports every team at Ankorstore, acting as internal consultants and delivering customized solutions that impact the entire company.

Main responsibilities

• Engage in the automation of processes using an advanced technology stack including GCP, Kubernetes, Istio, FluxCD, and the LGTM-stack, aiming to minimize manual intervention

• Collaborate with product teams to address technical challenges, design new systems, and improve the scalability, observability, and alerting of our systems

• Work within the Platform Squad to provide essential services to all Ankorstore teams, enhancing the platform's reliability and performance

• Drive initiatives to reduce ongoing toil and focus on strategic improvements that matter.

• Participate in on-call rotations (daily rotation across all engineers) for handling incidents, contributing to our goal of achieving operational excellence and high availability

Ankorstore tech stack :

• Front-end: Vue.js, Typescript, Vuex, sass, webpack

• Back-end: PHP 8.3, Laravel 10, Golang

• Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch

• Tools: Github, CircleCI, LGTM-Stack, Sentry, Notion, Tanka/Jsonnet

Requirements

• A minimum of five years of professional experience, with a strong proficiency in cloud computing environments, preferably GCP and a minimum of three years of professional experience in Kubernetes.

• Experience with modern DevOps tools and practices, including GitOps (especially FluxCD),  Kubernetes Operators and the Grafana stack.

• Fluent in English, with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think outside the box.

• A proactive attitude towards teamwork and open-mindedness, with a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

• A positive and enthusiastic approach, with a readiness to learn and contribute to team success. Should demonstrate a commitment to improving their technical and customer service skills.

Benefits/Perks 

At Ankorstore we offer a versatile range of benefits to support employees' well-being and work-life balance, fostering personal growth within an innovative and adaptable work environment.

• We are a remote-friendly company, and you will have an hybrid contract, based in Paris

• All of our employees are automatically covered by Health Insurance & Life Insurance. Our Health Insurance (Mutuelle) and Life Insurance (Prévoyance) are SideCare

• We have partnered with Swile to provide you with meal vouchers

• You will have access to Leeto a platform that provides you with exclusive discounts, cultural activities, holiday vouchers and more

• Paid leaves + RTT

• Modern offices located in Paris (Opéra), providing a vibrant and inspiring work environment

• Sana Labs, a dynamic learning platform offering engaging, customised training experiences and fostering skills development across the entire organisation

Learning more about Ankorstore 

• Look around and visit our website, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and Welcome to the Jungle

• Read about us in the media: How to build a 2 million unicorn in under 3 years, Rewild Retail, Ankorstore is shaping the shopping of the future, Mary Portas & Ankorstore

• Ankorstart

Ankorstore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to promoting diversity. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.