Senior DevOps Engineer

What You'll Do

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our clients around the world.
• Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritising effectively.

You're the kind of person who:

• Truly understands the DevOps culture and practices; and can be champion for this within the organisation
• Builds solutions and does not become the solution (automation)*
• Thinks long-term incremental evolution, in sync with the industry practices and innovation
• Believes that building great software is more than just delivering working code, that other aspects such as reusability, testability, maintainability, security, and performance are just as important.
• Is constantly learning and expanding your skill sets on and off the job.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote infrastructure best practices like security, release management, monitoring
• Design infrastructure that is resilient, secure and highly available
• Facilitate the building and releasing of features by engineering team
• Take part in building a secure and highly available platform
• Build tools and processes that increase the productivity of other engineers and ensure an efficient release pipeline
• Support and collaborate with other engineers building on top of the platform
• Share responsibility for strategically scaling Andela's internal systems
• Promote and nurture good team practices such as TDD, system security, code reviews, and pair programming
• Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches

We are interested in a candidate from any background as long as you have a solid understanding of core computer science principles. Here's an abbreviated list of interesting technologies we currently use:

• Node.js with TypeScript
• Angular
• Postgres
• Platform: Google Cloud, Docker, NATS messaging system, Kubernetes,Terraform, Vault

Qualifications

Required:

• At least 5 years of software development experience
• Solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with system scripting languages like Bash, Python or Golang
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS, Docker Swarm
• Deeply familiar with concepts like DevOps, Continuous Delivery and TDD
• Experience with working with tools like Terraforms, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider
• Strong understanding of computer science principles
• Experience working in an agile environment (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
• Solid written and verbal communication
• Experience with system automation
• Experience with distributed systems

Preferable

• Experience building large-scale and highly available distributed systems