Senior DevOps Engineer

This role is part of our Central Devops Team at saas.group.

What is saas.group?

Think of us as the driving force behind your favorite software success stories. saas.group, established in 2017, is on a mission to turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures, unlocking their full potential. As a Software-as-a-Service portfolio powerhouse, we specialize in acquiring small software treasures and polishing them into industry stars. With a dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 300 colleagues spanning 44 countries we are truly global and we are rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration. We grow 19 exciting brands under our umbrella. Feel free to explore our Candidate's Hub to get an insider's view, dive into our culture, gain valuable insights into our teams and how we work.

Profile Overview

The DevOps Team is responsible for managing saas.group central infrastructure but also acts as a consultant for our brands. The main idea behind it is to create and maintain a set of central services, like observability, backups, that our brands can just use instead of managing them on their own. As a member of the team, you will be responsible for creating solutions and supervising the progress as well as assisting the brands with various infrastructure-related projects and tasks.

Your responsibilities

• Leading and performing infrastructure-related projects for saas.group brands: maintenance, performance optimization, incident management, migrations to Kubernetes, dockerizing apps, etc
• Assisting saas.group brands in their day-to-day infrastructure tasks: performing upgrades, deployments, configuring CI/CD pipelines, securing the infrastructure, etc
• Automating various aspects in the infrastructure: provisioning, deployments, etc
• Cooperating with dev team to ensure the high level of availability, stability and security for all applications
• Performing cloud costs optimizations
• Performing on call duties and incident management best practices

What you bring to the table

• You have 5+ years of experience as DevOps / Platform Engineer or SRE; 
• You have a good practical knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes; 
• You are comfortable with a couple of cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Heroku, Digital Ocean, Hetzner - we run on a multi cloud infrastructure); 
• You have a knowledge of commercial log and observability services like Datadog, New Relic and/or self-hosted observability tools like ELK, Prometheus; 
• You have experience with Cloudflare
• You have experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ; 
• You have experience with IaC tools (preferably Terraform); 
• You are familiar with CI/CD concepts and methodologies; 
• You have experience with Linux (any major distribution); 
• You have experience in Relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases (MongoDB) - prior DBA experience would be a great plus
• You have the ability to code in any modern scripting language (Python, Ruby, etc)
• You have knowledge about security best practices 
• You have experience with Git tools
• Outstanding communication, stakeholder management skills and a consultative approach

What’s in it for You

• Ultimate flexibility: We’re 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
• Freedom and autonomy: We’re a high-trust team, and you’ll be given lots of independence to solve problems in your own way — with plenty of help from the team when you need it.
• Minimum bureaucracy: We don’t like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable.
• Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
• Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning  and expertise with each other internally. 
• Unlimited paid time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.

We don’t just simply offer you to “take a job with us” but rather to “join us on this journey” to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies. 

Sounds like something you’re up for? Feel free to apply even if you don’t check all these boxes. We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives to spice up our team. Your application might just be the missing ingredient!