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The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building and scaling the foundations for production engineering, developer operations, and deployments.
You will be responsible for keeping the ship sailing smoothly, and your creations will serve as the bedrock for products serving millions of users.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about designing and developing tools for a fully automated, cloud-ready, highly resilient, and monitored environment.
Responsibilities
Maintain and automate our production environments, including AWS infrastructure planning, scaling, monitoring, and security.
Architect modern web, microservices, and cloud-native distributed systems based on containers, Kubernetes.
Architect, design, and automate cloud-native CI/CD workflows and tools, using Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
Work in cross-functional teams, delivering new features while maintaining existing systems.
Requirements
Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree
Minimum of 4 years experience in production applications and systems support. Strong experience with Cloud Native technologies (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
Experience in building pipelines and CI/CD workflows using tools like Jenkins,
Experience with cloud platforms – AWS, GCP
Solid knowledge of at least one scripting language
Experience with infrastructure as code, containerization, virtualization, and configuration management
Monitoring application and Platform performance
Experience with collaboration in an international agile team
Experience with Database Administration (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis).
Experience with end-to-end software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices.
Strong background in cloud and application security.
Experience in managing servers in Virtual Environment (AWS EC2, GCP VM), Remote management via SSH
Install and configure software packages via RPM and source code
Solid experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools (Jenkins)
Solid experience with Amazon Web Services (e.g.: ECRs, S3, Code Build)
Working experience with containers Docker and Kubernetes.
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