DevOps Engineer

This is a remote position.

Our partner is a company in the Online Media industry. They are looking to expand their team with a DevOps Engineer from Europe.

As a DevOps Engineer you will discuss, design and implement system architecture components and support your fellow developers with their local environments. You will manage up to three Kubernetes clusters of 12+ microservices on Google Cloud Platform, setup CI with GitHub Actions, and CD pipelines with Spinnaker. monitoring and alerts with Prometheus & Grafana, most importantly, guarantee the availability of the platform with the least downtime possible.

Skills

• Understand, discuss and implement technical specifications in the form of written text and visual diagrams
• Write and maintain efficient, reusable, clean manifests and templates
• Think ahead and communicate design decisions prior to implementation
• Provide task estimations with eagerness to deliver on time at a very low risk for delays
• Eagerness to learn new programming languages and defy your comfort zone with new tools
• Perform root cause analysis on outages and anomalies

Requirements

• 2+ years maintaining production-grade Linux machines
• 2+ years working with Docker or similar containerization tools
• Managed a production-grade Kubernetes cluster
• Written manifests to deploy and manage Kubernetes workloads, configs and services
• Automated an SSL certificate renewal process
• Managed a database cluster
• Worked with networking concepts such as Firewall, NAT, Subnetting, VPC, VPN, etc.
• Written automation scripts using any of the languages: Bash, Go, Python
• Setup monitoring and alerts for critical platform availability components
• Used Git for source versioning control
• Worked in an agile environment

Originally posted on Himalayas