Developer / Administrator (gn) PHP & Linux

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a private and independent international medical aid organisation. Diversity, open mindedness and mutual respect are of particular importance in our organisation. MSF provides medical aid in more than 70 countries worldwide. The headquarters of the German section of MSF - Ärzte ohne Grenzen e.V. is in Berlin. In the headquarters, over 250 employees work in the fundraising, communications and engagement, finance and administration, human resources and project departments.

In this position within the Advocacy & Communications Department, you will ensure smooth, secure operation of our Website and our backend systems within a cross-functional and agile team consisting of a Product Owner, a Project Manager and three other internal and external Developers. You will develop our software and infrastructure with a great deal of creative freedom as a sabbatical leave replacement (15 months).

Developer / Administrator PHP & Linux (f/m/d)

1. Design enhanced software architectures and develop new features with PHP, Symfony and MariaDB / MySQL
2. Strengthen the flexibility and robustness of our backend infrastructure, improve monitoring, automated testing and incident response
3. Support internal and external partners to connect our website with backend-systems (e.g. via MQTT)
4. Administrate & update our Linux-Servers with Ansible
5. Take pro-active responsibility on security improvements and data protection
6. Support internal partners in the provision of future-oriented technical sparring in the project initiation phase
7. Take responsibility for regular on-call duty with a very fair time compensation model

1. Strong motivation to support MSF with your tech skills, improve your software and test new ideas in an agile environment
2. Several years of proven experience in software development with PHP, including software frameworks (e.g. Symfony, Laravel or similar)
3. Several years of proven experience in the administration of Linux servers, with a focus on security (monitoring, firewalls), automation (e.g. Ansible) and CI/CD (e.g. GitLab)
4. Solid knowledge of data architecture, modelling and organisation, data flow, performance and security, with experience in MariaDB, SQLServer and MQTT
5. Good experience with setting up test automation (e.g. Behat, Selenium, BrowserStack, PHPUnit)
6. Astrong personal focus on service, quality and results
7. Willingness to travel to Berlin at least once a month
8. Very good English language skills (C1), basic German language skills (A2)

Financial benefits

1. Payment according to a transparent internal salary structure; in this position according to group 4 with full-time employment (40h/week) from 3.933 Euro to a maximum of 4.975, depending on the relevant professional experience
2. 13th salary, regular salary increases within the salary structure and annual inflation adjustment
3. Company pension plan after 24 months of seniority
4. Subsidy for job ticket or Deutschlandticket
5. Subsidy for a sports membership at Urban Sports Club
6. Financial allowance for remote work and company laptop with additional accessories for mobile working

non-financial benefits

1. 30 days holidays plus days off on 12/24 and 12/31
2. Flexible working hours, remote work incl. possibilities to work up to 6 weeks per year from abroad within the EU
3. Wide range of internal training opportunities and annual external trainings budget

Additional benefits

1. Insights on international field projects through regular reports, presentations and exchange with colleagues
2. Opportunity to exchange ideas in our inspiring MSF Germany specific and international network and to help shape the future of the organization
3. A meaningful, varied job in a respectful and positive organizational culture where empowerment and team decision-making are valued