Sr. DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to take part in the development of our communication platform. You will be part of the Engineering team, responsible for automated deployments, ensuring highest reliability and scalability of our production services and efficiently manage our cloud platform infrastructure.

Our ideal candidate is a professional with experience in automating deployments with modern configuration and deployment management systems. He/She requires a broad knowledge of systems, servers, load balancers, storages, security, networking and some background in programming. We are using cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization, CI and CD process.

Main Responsibilities

Automate builds, deployments and other aspects of release lifecycle

Maintain and improve cloud platform infrastructure and configure auto-scaling

Architecture and develop Docker-based infrastructure

Find solutions to problems that disrupt availability, performance and stability of our systems

Work in conjunction with development and operations team to understand requirements for functionality, performance and security of applications

Explore and maintain understanding of the internal architecture and client requirements to our applications

Manage the processes of deployments using blue-green deployment pattern whenever possible

Implement the tools and processes for monitoring servers and services

Ensure proper backup and restore when failure occurs

Suggest ways to improve and reduce operational costs with adaptive performance tuning

Investigate and develop skills in new technologies, collaborate across the company

Desired Skills And Experience

Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience

Practical experience of building and operating platform in AWS (EC2, ECS, ELB, VPC)

Experienced in Jenkins

Strong experience in managing high-load and auto-scaling production environment

Programming experience in any scripting language (like Python)

7+ years of experience working on admin level with Linux and Windows

Experience working with configuration management frameworks like Puppet, Chef, Ansible

Strong experience in managing cluster setup of RabbitMQ, Redis, Mongodb.

Strong in Docker and Kubernetes

Familiar with Terraform and Spinnaker

Familiar with ELK stack and central log management

Cloud monitoring tools

Bonus Points For Experience With The Followings

Experience of working in Agile environment, in a close collaboration with developers

Qualifications

Degree in Engineering from a leading university

Written and verbal fluency in English is required

Remuneration

Competitive salary with attractive bonus

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