DevOps Engineer

Project description

• There are several projects specialized in digital commerce, from large
• household name retailers, to global brands; with different businesses including
• jewellery, leather goods, cosmetics, optical retail and others.
• Development team on each project may vary but usually consists of around
• 10-20 people including BA, QA, PM, BE, FE.

Details on tech stack

• Cloud hosted (GCP/AWS/Azure);
• Cloud services used: compute, networking, DNS, FaaS, buckets, DBs (both
• SQL and no-SQL), IAM.
• Provider specific cloud services: AWS’s Cloudformation, AWS Cloudfront,
• AWS Codebuild, AWS SQS, GCP Cloudrun, GCP Memorystore. The list
• constantly grows;
• Infrastructure provisioning with either Terraform or AWS CDK or Pulumi;
• Workloads hosted in Kubernetes. VMs in rare cases
• Java/NextJs apps
• Nginx ingress, cloud-native ingress
• Apache
• External DNS
• Kubed
• Dex OIDC
• OpenLDAP
• Nexus
• Rendertron
• Hazelcast
• Elasticsearch-Fluentd-Kibana
• Prometheus-Grafana
• Velero
• Jmeter
• Jenkins
• Configuration managed with Helm. Chef/Ansible in certain cases.
• Mozilla Sops for secrets management
• Newrelic/Dynatrace for application performance monitoring
  

Min requirements to the candidate

• Experience with at least one of the following cloud providers: AWS, GCP, Azure;
• Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management (e.g. Terraform, AWS CDK/Cloudformation, Pulumi, Helm);
• Experience with Docker containers and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes EKS/AKS/GKE, APIs and microservices;
• Linux and networking experience;
• Knowledge of SQL and No-SQL database technologies (Mysql, RDS/CloudSQL, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL /SQLServer, etc);
• Web technologies: http(s) protocol, web servers and proxies (httpd, nginx, haproxy), load balancing
• Experience in implementing CI/CD setup: Jenkins and CloudNative solutions such as AWS Codebuild, GCP Cloud Build;
• Scripting and automation: Typescript, Python, Bash;
• Logs collection and aggregation: EFK stack;
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Newrelic;
• Nice to have requirements to the candidate Experience in maintaining Java apps;
• Experience with CDN (e.g. Fastly, Cloudflare, Akamai);
• Experience with secrets management (Mozilla Sops)
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Chef or Ansible;
• Experience in a professional consulting environment;
• Experience with issue management and tracking systems as Jira, Confluence;

Tasks the candidate will work with:

• Plan infrastructure design for production and non-production environments;
• Build (script) production and non-production environments;
• Build CI/CD: infrastructure;
• Work closely with backend team on environments provisioning and CI/CD pipelines development;
• Cover observability: apps monitoring, logs/metrics collection and aggregation, dashboards, alerting;
• Cover reliability: address single point of failures, fault-tolerance;
• Capacity planning: performance tests, workloads and databases sizing;
• Migrations: cloud to cloud migrations, stack upgrades;
• Assist and/or own production go live;
• Production maintenance: reactively address incidents, proactively implement enhancements, recurrent upgrades.
• Consult the client on technical decisions;
• Peer code reviews;
• Experience with CDN (e.g. Fastly, Cloudflare, Akamai);
• Experience with secrets management (Mozilla Sops)
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as
• Chef or Ansible;
• Experience in a professional consulting environment;
• Experience with issue management and tracking systems as Jira, Confluence.