Senior DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a critical role in maintaining and evolving our highly available, high-traffic platform. In this role, you will ensure our systems are robust, scalable, and efficient - capable of seamlessly handling significant traffic spikes while meeting current and future business challenges. Your expertise in cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, automation, monitoring, and performance optimization will be essential. 

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be an integral part of our team responsible for managing production and development environments, designing CI/CD pipelines, and enforcing best practices in reliability, security, and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build efficient, resilient cloud architectures using EKS and associated AWS services to address evolving business needs.
• Develop, manage, and maintain production, staging, and development environments that are resilient, secure, and scalable while improving service-level agreements (SLAs) and performance.
• Manage, monitor, and scale our distributed, containerized applications to ensure high availability and optimal performance.
• Work closely with engineering and R&D teams to translate product requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions.
• Mentor team members and foster an environment of continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Establish, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Helm charts, Terraform and Crossplan.
• Implement automation strategies to streamline deployments and infrastructure management, ensuring rapid yet reliable release cycles.
• Implement robust monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog) to proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks.
• Lead incident response efforts, conduct root-cause analysis, and drive long-term solutions to prevent recurring issues.

• 7+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer in high-scale, fast-paced environments.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, with a strong emphasis on EKS.
• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure platforms, particularly AWS (experience with GCP is a plus).
• Proficient in using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Crossplan.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and related automation tools.
• Knowledge of different database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB and Redis.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Linux operating systems, Bash scripting, and networking fundamentals.
• Deep understanding of container orchestration, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Datadog.
• Deep understanding of security best practices and experience leading security initiatives within cloud environments.

Advantages:

• Experience with ClickHouse.
• Proficiency in Golang and Python.
• Background in building and optimizing ad-serving or similarly high-traffic platforms.

• Career development opportunities & different skill-based workshops are offered each quarter.
• Hybrid work model
• Gradual return from parental leave
• Fun company events and celebrations
• Community involvement opportunities, both in-person and remote

Not sure that you're 100% qualified but are up for the challenge? We want you to apply!

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