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.

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

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).

In your role you will

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

You Have

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

As an internationally operating organisation, we welcome diversity, open mindedness and mutual respect. In accordance with our values, we only analyze the professional qualifications in the applications, regardless of ethnical and social origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation or age of the applicant.