DevOps Enigineer

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Job Overview

As a DevOps engineer you will be in charge of planning and deploying production servers in high scale on AWS, deploying services to Kubernetes, monitoring our infrastructure and supporting our development teams.

**Responsibillities**:

- Develop, automate and enhance SaaS/PaaS platforms built on AWS
- Ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of production systems
- Build automated tests, monitoring and alerting mechanisms to help assure quality and stability of various services
- System troubleshooting and problem-solving across the platforms
- Suggest and implement best practices and architecture improvements

**Technical Skills**:

- 4+ years of experience with Cloud services in a 24x7 uptime environment
- Competency in **bash and SQL** for automation. **Python **is an advantage.Experience with automation technologies such as **Terraform**, CloudFormation, Ansible, **Gitlab**, Jenkins (or similar platforms).
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields, or equivalent work experience

**Soft Skills**:

- A team member
- Present your ideas and drive to decisions
- Ability to self-start and push projects forward toward completion
- Be able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, meet deadlines, effectively manage priorities and communicate progress
- Passion for learning and finding that unexpected solution
- Fluent in English (verbal AND written)
- Advantages - experience with: PythonKafka