Senior Product Software Engineer (Dev-Ops)

Job Description Devops

Your responsibilities

As DevOps Engineer, you are a critical member of our Software Development Team. You will work closely together with Tech Leads, Product Owners, Architects, QA Specialists, other stakeholders and colleagues to ensure the smooth delivery and deployment of our products to the cloud by implementing new pipeline features, removing technical debt, ensuring product quality is validated, supporting the company’s Software Development Lifecycle, and proposing and implementing best practices.

Responsibilities:

DevOps Implementation:

    - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assist in implementing and improving DevOps practices.

    - Contribute to the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo CI/CD, Azure DevOps, and AWS CodePipeline.

    - Assist in automating software deployments, testing, and monitoring processes.

    - Work closely with senior engineers and developers to adopt and apply DevOps best practices.

Kubernetes:

    - Advise the engineering team on the adoption of Kubernetes (and containerization in general), including cluster provisioning, deployment, and troubleshooting.

    - Understanding of how to monitor and optimize cluster performance, capacity, and security.

    - Support the implementation and maintenance of high availability and disaster recovery strategies for Kubernetes workloads.

AWS and Azure Infrastructure Management:

    - Assist and advise infrastructure/CloudOps teams in designing, deploying, and maintaining AWS and/or Azure infrastructure to support application workloads.

    - Experience configuring and optimizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, and IAM and Azure equivalents.

    - Contribute to infrastructure provisioning and deployment automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

    - Support monitoring and ensuring the availability, performance, and security of AWS resources.

System Architecture and Design:

    - Contribute to design and architecture discussions of scalable and reliable cloud-based systems.

    - Assist in capacity planning and participate in system scalability initiatives.

    - Identify and suggest solutions to enhance system performance, security, and cost-efficiency.

Troubleshooting and Support:

    - Collaborate with senior team members to investigate and resolve technical issues related to Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and DevOps.

    - Provide support and guidance to junior team members.

    - Collaborate with product teams to address and resolve production incidents.

    - Contribute to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation, including system diagrams, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.

    - Share knowledge and contribute to internal knowledge bases, learning from senior team members.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Some experience or familiarity with Kubernetes administration and management.
• Familiarity with AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, and IAM and Azure equivalents.
• Basic understanding of implementing and maintaining DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation is a plus, as well as workload specifications, such as Score.
• Exposure to Platform Engineering best practices.
• Experience with Feature Flag Management and feature flag tools such as LaunchDarkly.
• Basic understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
• Familiarity with scripting and automation using languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Exposure to containerization technologies (Docker) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to learn and troubleshoot technical issues.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.