Middle DevOps Engineer

Ajax Systems is an international technology company, the largest developer and manufacturer of security systems in Europe.

The startup, created in 2011 in Ukraine, scaled into an international product company. Ajax security systems protect more than 2.5 million users in 169 countries. The company works with 150,000 installers in key markets.

Ajax Systems has a central office, an R&D department, and two full-cycle productions in Ukraine; the representative offices in the UAE (Dubai), Great Britain, Italy, Spain, and teams in many other regions; and a logistics hub in Poland.

The company has more than 3,000 employees, including 500 development engineers and 1,200 production workers.

Ajax products are a whole ecosystem of 135 devices, mobile and desktop apps, and server infrastructure.

The product line includes control panels, motion detectors, opening detectors, flood prevention, fire detectors, street and home sirens, alarm buttons with the appliances control function, smart sockets, and relays.

Our infrastructure is a part of the product that is invisible to the end user, but critical to the life of the entire system. The safety of our users and their property depends on our uptime. We are constantly developing our cloud solutions and this requires automating our infrastructure, testing and improving its fault tolerance. For this purpose we are looking for DevOps Engineer.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer.
• Experience with managing Linux-based systems, TCP/IP networking.
• Experience with IaC and config management tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience writing code in one or more languages, such as Python, Bash, Groovy.
• Experience with AWS stack: VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, Elasticache, Route53, Lambda etc.
• Experience in creating continuous integration and continuous delivery CI/CD with Jenkins CI.
• Experience with git, Docker.

Desirable:

• Elasticsearch stack (self-managed).
• Kubernetes (AWS EKS) + Helm.
• Message brokers: NATS, Kafka.
• Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Hashicorp tools: Terragrunt, Vault, Packer.
• Monitoring/Alerting: Datadog, OpsGenie.
• Others: JVM, Gradle.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively participate in the platform development:

- extend and support current CI/CD;

- provide cost optimization plans;

- migrate to new AWS architecture;

- build proactive monitoring;

- take part in migration to Kubernetes.

• On-duty activities (once per ~1.5 months):

- grant access to different services;

- troubleshoot CI/CD failures;

- take part in an investigation on STAGE environments.

• Availability is very important. Sometimes you will need to help with issues in production that are most critical (On-call duties).

With us you will enjoy:

• Medical insurance.
• Working with a team of people to build the future of an industry.
• Non-trivial challenges and various specter of interesting tasks.
• A flexible, friendly and collaborative work environment.
• Corporate culture based on common sense.
• Opportunities to influence the creation of new products and their quality.