DevOps Engineer

What you’ll be doing

• Ensure that our applications and environments are stable, scalable, secure and performing as expected.

• Proactively engage and work in alignment with cross-functional colleagues to understand their requirements, contributing to and providing suitable supporting solutions.

• Develop and introduce systems to aid and facilitate rapid growth including implementation of deployment policies, designing and implementing new procedures, configuration management and planning of patches and for capacity upgrades

• Observability: ensure suitable levels of monitoring and alerting are in place to keep engineers aware of issues.

• Establish runbooks and procedures to keep outages to a minimum. Jump in before users notice that things are off track, then automate it for the future.

• Automate everything so that nothing is ever done manually in production.

• Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks. Make sure we are prepared for peak times, DDoS attacks and fat fingers. • Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - software, applications and network.

• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.

• Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.

You Must Have

• 2+ years extensive experience of Linux server administration include patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.

• 2+ years of implementing systems that are highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healing on Azure cloud platform

• Strong understanding of networking, especially in cloud environments along with a good understanding of CICD.

• Prior experience implementing industry standard security best practices, including those recommended by Azure

• Proficiency with Bash, and any high-level scripting language.

• Basic working knowledge of observability stacks like ELK, prometheus, grafana, Signoz etc

• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and Infrastructure Testing, preferably using Pulumi/Terraform.

• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker/Kubernetes.

• Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.