Backend Software Engineer, DevOps

Our DevOps team is a key part of building Avature, as they are responsible for creating the environments and tools used by our developers. As Backend Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in these tasks, while also ensuring clear communication between our IT and development areas, enabling multiple teams to collaborate toward a common goal

Your challenges and objectives:

• Provide the environments where Avature's applications run.
• Manage the deployment and configuration of those applications.
• Ensure fluent communication between the Development and IT areas.
• Envision integrations between different internal systems.
• Program complex operations to scale in distributed datacenters around the world.

Your day-to-day activities:

• Develop system tools to automate environment creation and deployments.
• Manage and design our configuration management platform.
• Interact with different virtualization platforms: AWS, KVM, LXD, Docker.
• Design and maintain our continuous integration platform.
• Promote best practices in deployments and infrastructure management among various teams.
• Build continuous testing by automation and virtualization.
• Design and develop highly distributed systems.
• Perform code reviews, technical analysis of existing code, and refactors to improve code quality.

About you:

• Work experience in software development.
• Superior analytical/troubleshooting skills.
• Solid background in operating systems concepts.
• Fluency in any structured programming language (preferably Python).
• Knowledge (or willingness to learn) infrastructure management technologies (Puppet, Packer, Terraform, LXD, AWS, KVM, Docker, etc.)
• Experience in product as a service operation is a plus.
• Open source experience or contribution to any Linux/Unix distribution is a plus.

We offer:

• A fast-paced, energetic, and engaging environment.
• Flexible hours.
• Competitive salary, with one review a year.
• Four days a year to attend events related to professional development.

Due to COVID 19, all Avaturians are working from home for the moment. More information will be provided during the interview process.