Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps engineer, you will focus your technical expertise on evaluating and streamlining existing processes, identifying bottlenecks and working around them to improve overall operational efficiency.

Responsibilties:

• Identifying bottlenecks in current practices and addressing these by designing automation around Kubernetes infrastructure management, continuous integration pipelines and deployment strategies for containerised workloads, multi-tenant services and shared applications to meet time constraints. 
• On other days you’ll be evaluating and driving forward, as necessary, new technologies, tools or frameworks to improve system performance and/or operational efficiency, always focusing on quality. 
• Work with Solution Architects, and the rest of the DevOps teams’ members and act as a technical authority and define standards for the rest of the operational teams. On a different front, mentor and collaborate, setting clear and tangible requirements for the success of the organisation.
• Holds SRE practices at heart and strongly believes good observability practices lead to an intimate understanding of platform behaviour and performance, with which one may also proactively detect problems in not-so-familiar systems.

• The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of both operational and containerisation principles, together with a proven track record of designing and delivering solutions to maintain reliable and resilient platforms.

• Previous technical experience in a senior DevOps role.
• Deep understanding of the following:
• Container platforms
• CI/CD toolchains and related practices
• Infrastructure as Code and Templating (Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Kustomize)
• Cryptography (digital certificates, key exchanges, encryption)
• Solid Linux knowledge, including filesystems, day-to-day administration cli tools, package management, patching, regex, scripting etc..
• Grasp of networking concepts, including TCP/IP layers, Load Balancers, reverse proxies, firewalling and packet inspection practices.
• Experience building, deploying, maintaining, and operating SaaS products in a cost effective manner.
• Sound understanding of the software development ecosystem: use of Git, automated testing, environment promotion, scrum methodologies etc.
• Ability to articulate technical documentation and design architecture blueprints.
• Ability to understand and capture value in emerging technologies through research.
• Concise communication and presentation skills, ability to explain complex problems effortlessly to both techies & non-technical colleagues.
• Able to work effectively in a team environment and devoted knowledge sharer.

Nice to have:

• Certifications related to the demonstrated skills that can be verified.
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms.

• Exciting opportunities for career growth
• Flexible hybrid work model
• Comprehensive international health insurance
• Health and wellbeing package worth 350 EUR per year
• Day off on your birthday
• 1 additional day off for yourself "Me Time"
• Complimentary office lunches