Senior Dev Ops Engineer

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• In this role you will collaborate with development and operations teams to build and maintain automated deployment pipelines, manage infrastructure and cloud services, and troubleshoot issues.
• Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines for software applications
• Manage infrastructure and cloud services, usually GCP
• Optimize hosting costs by following best practices
• Implement and manage continuous integration and delivery tools
• Troubleshoot issues and implement fixes relating to scaling and security
• Ensure high availability and scalability of applications and services
• Maintain detailed, up-to-date documentation of internal system assets
• Enable business continuity through disaster-recovery plans
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve processes and implement best practices

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent job experience will be considered
• At least 5 years of professional experience in DevOps or a related field
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services such as GCP, AWS or Azure
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Ruby
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills

TO STAND OUT:

• Deep knowledge and understanding of Google Cloud Platform, including VPC networks, Kubernetes, Compute Engine and horizontal and vertical scaling
• Detailed knowledge of (reverse) proxy servers such as Nginx
• Experience with helm, terraform or other IaC tools
• Detailed knowledge of AMQP brokers such as RabbitMQ
• Detailed knowledge of Redis or another in-memory shared database, with the ability to scale deployments on demand
• Experience in transitioning a monolithic application into microservices