DevOps Engineer

Job Overview:

As a DevOps Engineer at Pollfish, you will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between software development and IT operations, ensuring a seamless, efficient, and continuous delivery pipeline. This position is integral to optimizing and automating our deployment processes, enhancing system reliability, scalability, and performance. Your expertise will support the company�s ability to swiftly respond to market demands and maintain a competitive edge by delivering high-quality software solutions to our clients. Your contributions will directly impact reduced downtime, faster release cycles, and improved overall productivity.

Who We Are!

Pollfish, a Prodege, LLC company, is an online market research survey platform where data driven brands bring market research in-house for faster and smarter decision making. We have a proprietary network of 250M consumers/year which enables companies to connect with and understand real consumers worldwide in a fast, easy and cost-effective way.

Primary Job Objectives:

• Cloud Infrastructure Migration and Management.

• Development of a Self-Service Structure.

• Continuous Integration and Deployment.

• System Monitoring and Management.

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Detailed Job Duties: (typical monthly, weekly, daily tasks which support the primary objectives)

• Migrate our services and databases, currently in GCP, to the AWS infrastructure.
• Proficiently manage and maintain our cloud infrastructure using IaC and GitOps principles.
• Develop and implement a self-service model for developers to securely access and manage cloud resources.
• Ensure continuous improvement and deployment through robust CI/CD pipelines, potentially using Bitbucket pipelines or GitHub Actions.
• Monitor and alert using tools like Grafana, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Manage architectural components including databases (Postgres, ScyllaDB, Elastic Search, REDIS) and messaging systems like Kafka. (All services are managed)

What does SUCCESS look like?

Successful performance as a DevOps Engineer at Pollfish will be marked by the effective migration and management of cloud infrastructure, primarily transitioning services from GCP to AWS. The role requires the establishment of a self-service structure for developers, streamlining access and management of cloud resources while adhering to security best practices. Key to success will be the continuous enhancement of CI/CD pipelines to facilitate swift and reliable software deployments, alongside diligent system monitoring to ensure optimal performance and availability. The engineer's efforts will result in reduced system downtime, accelerated release cycles, and a significant boost in overall productivity, thereby supporting the company's agile response to market demands.

The MUST Haves: (ex: job cannot be done without these skills, education, experience, certifications, licenses)

• Three or more (3+) years of experience in DevOps Engineering.
• Experience with cloud services and management.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux System Administration
• Strong background in Terraform for IaC and GitOps.
• Experience in setting up and managing CI/CD workflows.
• Skills in monitoring and alerting with Datadog or Grafana.

The Nice to Haves: (ex: preferred additional skills, education, experience, certifications, licenses)

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or computer science is preferred.
• GCP/AWS cloud services.
• Experience with Redis,InfluxDB.
• Knowledge of CloudWatch, Prometheus, ArgoCD.
• DBA-related skills, including monitoring, backups, and index optimization.

Benefits

• An attractive salary package
• Part of an innovative tech company
• Private Health Insurance
• Company Equity
• Weekly Office Events - Catered Lunch and Breakfast
• Stocked Kitchen
• Company Outings & Quarterly Events
• Hybrid Working
• Meal Coupons - Monthly
• LinkedIn Learning & Training Opportunities/Budget
• Mental Health Benefits - Wellness Coach App Subscription
• Great office location in the city center - Parking slots available
• Gym Subscription - UP Fit
• Quarterly Charitable Giving Allowance
• Peer recognition Allowance

Pollfish lives in the Cloud, and is deployed several times a day using Kubernetes. A reactive microservice architecture underpins the entire platform. The core application is written in Play (Scala), while the vast majority of the supporting services are using the proven Twitter stack, Finatra/Finagle as well as the Lightbend Akka stack.

All new front end projects are using a React/Redux/Sagas stack, while there is also an old JQuery project that we plan to migrate in the future. Module bundling is handled by webpack, allowing us to optimize, minimize and deploy our static assets using Docker without much hassle.

Data is constantly on the move at Pollfish. From Apache Kafka, to Postgres, to Apache Druid and Cassandra, to the data-lake. Distributed programming based on Apache Spark, and Apache Flink is leveraged to efficiently handle the immense amounts of data that Pollfish has to process daily. Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence models allow Pollfish to tackle fraud, and improve data quality.

Innovation and technical excellence always need to go hand in hand with software quality and the necessary processes to ensure it. Hence, at Pollfish we always try to write testable code and deliver tests together with every piece of software that we write.

Pollfish, a Prodege company is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity, making decisions without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.