We are building and running the next generation of digital experiences. Will you join us?

Hippo, a BloomReach company, is a visionary in the content management software space. BloomReach is a leader in big-data commerce technology. Together, we are redefining digital experience by engineering the first open and intelligent DX platform, designed to help businesses deliver personalized content that their visitors value in any context and on any device.

ResponsibilitiesYou will architect and help develop our next generation platform, Hippo OnDemand. You’ll be working with technologies and concepts such as: Kubernetes, AWS, Redis, Elastic Search, agile, scalability, PaaS, SaaS, real-time monitoring, self-service, open source and automation. This role includes close collaboration with customers, partners and various Hippo departments in order to create a truly groundbreaking product. The cloud architect is part of a small, dedicated and cross-functional team, and owner of a large and diverse set of responsibilities to support Hippo, its customers and its partners, and build infrastructure and tools to increase automation, improving efficiency of the engineering team.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Strong written and oral communications skills in English;
  • A university degree (preferably in Computer Science or related field of study);
  • Prioritization and analytical skills;
  • Thorough understanding of, and extensive experience administering, Linux, Java (web)applications and at least one of Puppet, Chef and Ansible;
  • Understanding of networking, architecture and core web technologies like load balancing, web servers, HTTP, DNS, LDAP and SQL/NoSQL;
  • Cloud (building) experience with technologies/services like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform;
  • CI / CD experience (Continuous Integrations and Deployment).
  • Development experience, any of the following languages will do, Go, Python, Ruby, with a strong preference for Go;
  • Experience with running docker in production, if you know Kubernetes, Mesos even better;
  • Experience with CoreOS, Redis, etcd is a huge bonus;
  • Experience with monitoring, distributed logging and metrics, setting up configuring and analysing to spot problems;
  • AWS product experience (ELB, EBS, RDS, S3, Route53, AMI users, etc);
  • Experience with infrastructure as code from a provisioning side (terraform, cloudformation).