Job Summary

About You

You are a critical thinker, a fast learner, and enjoy being a problem solver

Working with AWS services is your second nature

You have vast experience with deploying Java/PHP apps to the cloud and setting up CI/CD pipelines for automated testing/deployments

You know your way around the linux shell and are happy to SSH into a server (production and staging)

You are proficient with git and git workflows

You have a working knowledge of databases and SQL

Responsibilities

Spearhead and oversee the migration of the current infrastructure from on-prem to the cloud (AWS)

Actively follow the software and systems development lifecycle and DevOps practices

Automate management and orchestration tasks for implementing CI/CD pipelines

Automate common operations on critical systems in a safe and reliable manner

Participates in architecture and software development activities

Translates loosely defined requirements into solutions

Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project

Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow

Collaborate with engineering teams to increase the operational stability of the platform

Collaborates with the team to uncover pain points and formulate ways to accelerate delivery

Partner with agile teams to build and deliver software releases and infrastructure improvements through improved CI/CD processes

Identify bottlenecks in development and deployment processes and demonstrate leadership in problem solving

Qualifications

Fluent English (written and spoken)

Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

DevOps Engineer or equivalent software-engineering role with a minimum of 3 years experience

Process-oriented with great documentation skills

Knowledgeable with microservices development and design patterns

Knowledgeable with Java application development

Experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring.

Someone who has worked with several of the following tools, but is open to exploring new options too:

Puppet, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, GitLab…

Cloud technologies – fluent in AWS

Container technologies, Docker and Kubernetes preferred

You are able to work remotely and have access to high-speed internet

You are able to estimate the cost of the AWS servers that we need in our infrastructure (use AWS price calculator)