YOUR TASKS

• As a Senior Systems / DevOps engineer you own the entire application infrastructure, served on AWS using Nginx & PHP 7.2 (EC2), Postgres (RDS), Redis (EC), ElasticSearch (ESS) and others


• You prioritize availability and reliability and proactively find + resolve potential incidents


• You are a positive and forward-looking human being - robots are cool and all, but we're a team that likes working together


• You will become responsible for a mission-critical part of our platform


• This means:
  
  
  
  • Plan, propose and implement big and small projects from start to finish
  
  
  • Improve and optimize as the requirements change
  
  
  • Drive evolution of systems architecture
  
  
  • Ensure reliability
  
  
  • Test, monitor and add resilience
  
  
  
  


• Collaborate closely with others, splitting tasks or pairing up as necessary, to leverage different skill sets and specialties across the team


• Adopt, share and adapt conventions and best-practices - level up individually and as a team over time

REQUIREMENTS

• You are reliable and self-motivated, strive to solve problems effectively


• 5+ years of experience with Linux-based hosting of web applications


• Strong, demonstrated experience configuring multi-node clusters


• Intimate knowledge of AWS administration (including networking)


• Proficiency with Puppet is a must, though we are open to new config management solutions going forward


• Prior experience with CI/CD task runners (we use Jenkins)


• Familiarity with system design and data/software architecture


• Proven track record of projects in production


• You feel comfortable owning complex systems and being accountable for their operation


• Pragmatism


• Fluent English speaking & writing skills


• Willingness to learn & master any technology, language, or development environment that we might need in the future


• Experience with common web programming languages and their monitoring


• First experience with containerization a plus

WHAT WE OFFER

• Tech plays a central role in our young & growing company


• Agile, cross-functional team with lots of responsibility on the team level


• Many opportunities on a personal and professional level - grow with us


• Work with great people of various backgrounds and nationalities


• Flat management hierarchy - be a part of the decision-making process


• Challenging projects in a hot field