Senior DevOps Engineer

Join the team building the world's largest B2B marketplace.

Our Vision:

We connect buyers and sellers of essential chemistry at the onset of inspiration, accelerating product innovation globally.

Knowde is transforming the $5 trillion chemical industry. Chemistry (chemicals, polymers & ingredients) are those raw materials used to create every human-made product on earth. Can't wait for that foldable phone? Thank DuPont. Need baby wipes for your infant? Thank Lonza. Love those solar shingles that power your home? Thank Dow Chemical. Chemical, polymer and ingredient companies are the hidden innovators behind the end- products everyone relies on every day.

Knowde is building a rich, digital marketplace where R&D, marketing and procurement teams can search, find, compare, sample, quote and purchase chemistry from every producer on Earth ?" all in one place.

Knowde is your chance to join a hyper-growth focused & well-funded startup backed by Sequoia Capital, Bee Partners, Refactor Capital, Cantos & Knollwood Investments.

Knowde is looking to add an immensely talented Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Engineering team. As one of the founding engineers, you will help us invent, design, refine, and deliver the products that will enable this digital transformation. The products we will create together simply do not exist today. This is your chance to fundamentally affect how product innovation occurs globally across industries.

What you'll do:

• Develop best practices and tools for application execution, release, and support.
• Provide product team with CI/CD technical software application support (GitHub Actions), problem resolution, and appropriate documentation.
• Develop a deep understanding of automation capabilities.
• Define deployment pipelines according to the needs of developers, business and QA stakeholders.
• Perform application tuning to optimize overall system performance, often working with technical support.
• Manage the creation and refreshment of environments associated with the application (e.g.; test, development) requested by Release Management.
• Make sure application security policies and standards are followed.

What you'll bring:

• Complete understanding and application of DevOps principles, theories, and concepts.
• Ability to interface successfully with internal stakeholders to analyze requirements and develop solutions.
• Take ownership of the work.
• Previous experience working in a DevOps environment on position delivering CI/CD solutions ?" min. 3 years
• Experience and a strong understanding of DevOps tools. Preferred stack: Github, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarQube, monitoring systems (NewRelic, Prometheus, etc.)
• Working experience of AWS DevOps including Cloud Formation, Serverless
• Associate degree, or educational equivalent, in computer science or information technology field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Understanding and basic experience with test automation tools
• Ability to effectively communicate designs and decisions to peers, customers, and management
• Understanding of application security
• Good English skills verbal & written