Senior Engineer - DevOps

About Andela:

Andela Talent Cloud is the industry’s only unified solution to manage the complete global talent lifecycle. We help enterprises source qualify hire manage and pay global technical talent in one integrated platform.

Market leaders partner with Andela to help rewrite their workforce strategies to include global remote talent from over 175 countries to scale their teams and deliver projects faster.

Andela Talent Cloud provides an intelligent AI-driven platform that helps enterprises build remote-fluent teams from emerging geographies such as Africa and Latin America. Powerful AI-matching algorithms learn from thousands of data points in the hiring journey to pinpoint the best engineers up to 70% faster at 30 to 50% less cost than other hiring approaches.  Andela caters to specialized disciplines such as Application Engineering Artificial Intelligence Cloud and Data & Analytics with over 30 specific use cases. The world’s best brands trust Andela including GitHub Mastercard Foundry ViacomCBS and Mindshare.

About the Role:

As a DevOps Engineer at Andela your focus will be on leveraging your deep understanding of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Kubernetes (K8s) and Jenkins to enable the rapid reliable and scalable delivery of our software products. This crucial role sits at the intersection of software development and systems operations making it integral to our ability to deliver high-quality software solutions quickly and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional product development teams to gain a comprehensive understanding of their needs and project requirements.

• Accurately interpret and translate gathered requirements into actionable tasks while devising a strategic plan for seamless execution.

• Develop and implement robust CI/CD pipelines utilizing Jenkins/Groovy and ArgoCD ensuring optimal efficiency and reliability.

• Maintain and expand existing GCP-based infrastructure using Terraform in order to support the growing needs of our product development teams.

• Implement monitoring and alerting tools such as Datadog to facilitate real-time tracking of system performance and immediate identification of potential issues.

• Drive the automation of routine processes including system health checks and vulnerability scanning to bolster security and streamline workflows.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 4 years of professional experience working as a DevOps engineer on cloud-based setups preferably with a focus on GCP and Kubernetes.

• Demonstrated expertise in administering continuous integration (CI/CD) systems based on Jenkins Teamcity Buildkite or similar platforms.

• Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible Terraform or equivalent.

• Proven experience scaling building and deploying systems in cloud environments with a strong understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities associated with these platforms.

• A strong commitment to continuous learning collaboration and innovation.

• Extensive experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Kubernetes and Jenkins/Groovy.

• Demonstrated experience in implementing monitoring and alerting tools such as Datadog.

• Strong understanding of system health checks and vulnerability scanning processes.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for effective engagement with diverse product development teams.

• Advanced level of English (both written and oral) to ensure effective communication within our diverse global team.

Benefits

• Fully Remote work culture - we hire globally and all of our roles are fully remote!

• Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from Andela

• Flexible working hours

• Equity (as a part of the compensation package)

• Healthcare 401k / pension (US only)

• Generous Paid Time Off Parental Leave Compassionate Leave

And more to come! We're on a journey to reimagine global benefits at Andela.

At Andela we outcompete through diversity. We know that our strengths lie in the multiplicity of talents perspectives backgrounds & orientations resident in our community and we take pride in that. Andela is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices. Andela provides equal employment opportunities and workplace to all employees and applicants without regard to factors including but not limited to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability pregnancy (including breastfeeding) genetic information HIV/AIDS or any other medical status family or parental status marital status amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. This commitment applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. Our policies expressly prohibit any form of harassment and/or discrimination as stated above. Andela is home for all come as you are.