Job Openings Senior DevOps

About the job Senior DevOps

You will get the opportunity to join a fast-growing company, modest enough for you to play a meaningful role and influencing our technology and ways of working, but broad enough to make a change working towards long term goals in an agile environment. The platform we build automates the insights gathering process so that companies can gain access to insights faster with unparalleled scale.

You will be someone that shares our values and ambitions and can bring something to the team that we can benefit from. It might be prior experience of the journey, architectural insight into cloud native systems, specific technology expertise in parts of our stack or a combination of them all. Whatever it is, you will be the kind of person that is energized by complex challenges, teamwork and problem solving.

What your days will look like:

As our next Cloud Infrastructure (DevOps) Engineer , you will be an efficient problem solver, learn on the fly and make decisions quickly. You will have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, we always strive to be at the forefront of the latest tech stacks and tools used within our domain.

Your focus in the role would be:

  • Work as part of the infrastructure team on sprints that evolve our core platform and systems.
  • Provide point of expertise on infrastructure and CI/CD to our wider engineering teams - often working as part of their scrum on larger projects
  • Automate the build and deployment of software to our cloud platform and help the organization do it more efficiently and effectively. Eliminate all repetitive manual operations from our daily lives.
  • Improve our monitoring and alerting systems to enable engineering teams to successfully operate and gain insights into the behavior of applications in hands-off environments.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and assist with troubleshooting issues that arise.
  • You will be a key person for the development organization by collecting and communicating the overall picture that will enable the teams to achieve better results.

Who you are:

You will be someone that shares our values and ambitions and can bring something to the team that we can benefit from. It might be prior experience of the journey, architectural insight into cloud native systems, specific technology expertise in parts of our stack or a combination of them all. Whatever it is, you will be the kind of person that is energized by complex challenges, teamwork and problem solving.

What you need:

  • You have experience in predominantly cloud infrastructure roles (AWS) working within teams that practice DevOps.
  • You can interact comfortably with AWS via CLI and/or API.
  • You have expertise and solid experience in deploying infrastructure as code with, at minimum, Terraform
  • and ideally some of the supporting cast (Ansible, Packer)
  • You have excellent knowledge of building and running Docker images/containers.
  • You have excellent knowledge and understanding of the software development lifecycle, including the use
  • of git and continuous integration tools (Jenkins Groovy DSL, TravisCI, GitHub actions etc.)
  • You have a grasp of cloud native and 12-Factor applications.
  • You have good knowledge of monitoring and alerting using one or more of: Graphite, Statsd, Prometheus,
  • Grafana, PagerDuty
  • You have expertise in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, Ruby, Node, Golang,
  • Java)

Advantageous qualifications:

  • You have good knowledge of the network stack at L4 and L7, particularly inter VPC routing.
  • You have some experience with managing DNS and resolver hierarchies.
  • You can debug HTTP APIs and understand other L7 protocols.
  • You have experience at administering Kubernetes.
  • You have specific cloud security expertise (threat assessment, attack surface management, SGs, NACLs, data
  • security)
  • You have experience of building and running Windows servers in AWS.
  • You have experience of continuous deployment strategies and technologies (Blue/Green, DNS or LB
  • weighting, automated regression testing, Spinnaker, CodeDeploy, Jenkins for CD)

What sets us apart?

  • We are an internationally diverse team that supports one another.
  • We develop high-quality software and thus create sustainable added value for our customers.
  • We live a feedback culture so that we can constantly reflect and improve.
  • We offer flexible remote work with free time management within the projects.
  • We enjoy new technologies and love to learn new things and grow with them.
  • We give freedom for further training because lifelong learning is important to us.