Lead Platform Engineer (M/F)

Lemonway🍋 is a pan-European Payment Institution offering a solution dedicated to marketplaces, and alternative finance platforms looking for a payment processing and collection system on behalf of third parties in a secure and regulated framework. Regulated by the ACPR and benefiting from the European passport in 29 countries, Lemonway is based in Paris and Hamburg.

400 marketplaces already trust Lemonway. The FinTech manages 1.3 million wallets for users of its partner platforms and has raised €50m from Breega, SpeedInvest, and Toscafund.

The company has over 150 Lemonheroes of 21 different nationalities🌎, an average age of 32, a great ambition and, above all, a crazy energy.

The job

We are looking for an experienced Lead Devops who will lead the Platform Engineering team and take responsibility for improving our delivery pipelines and providing a reliable and scalable platform to our customers and improve the developer experience.
You'll be directly reporting directly to our Head of Infra & Security.

Your missions will be:

• Manage the Platform Engineering Team (4 people).

• Lead & coach your engineering team to consistently deliver according to their roadmap

• Work in collaboration with development teams to continuously improve their code delivery pipelines using GitLab and Ansible

• Act as a Release Manager, making sure Developers have the best experience and ensure releases are smooth. Objective is to deliver on-demand.

• Monitor our platform availability and performance using Kibana/Logic Monitor/Open Telemetry

• Process support tickets, determine incident root causes and add new alerts to our monitoring platform

• Improve our monitoring stack, adding new alerts and metrics to our monitoring Platform. We are actually working on a POC with mixed Prometheus, Grafana and ElasticSearch

• Work on the post-migration to public cloud using tools such as Terraform and Ansible

• Help the development teams move the platform from Windows/.NET/.NET Core to Linux/.NET Core/NodeJS, from Monolith to Microservices

• Explore new technologies, imagine how we could leverage them and be aware of critical security issues.

Follow transversal projects and assist to improve the overall delivery including release management process. This is a very important point to us and the reason we are moving to Azure (Lift&Shift migration of the Payment platform finished by the end of Q4).

We are being supported by 3 external consultants to help us bring our platform to the best delivery standards.

TECH STACK 🖥️

• Cloud providers : Azure, AWS

• Code versioning tool: Gitlab

• Deployment tools: GitLab Pipelines, AWX/Ansible

• OS: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Windows/IIS/SQLServer

• Container: Docker, Docker compose

• Monitoring : Grafana, Prometheus..

• Messaging: RabbitMQ

• Office Tools : Slack, Office365, Notion

• Strong communication skills to collaborate in a fast moving company.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to learn quickly (using any tools at your disposal) where knowledge gaps exist to find solutions to technical problems.

• You have been building pipelines and/or monitoring production environments for 2+ years in the cloud (both AZURE and AWS would be awesome)

• Experience working in Windows/IIS/SQLServer environments and Unix/Linux environments

• Strong experience on Docker, Terraform, Ansible

• You care about code security, quality, simplicity and performance

• Fluent in French and English

Nice to have :

• You have an experience in payment / regulated industry