DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Blend, an award-winning consultancy, as a DevOps Engineer and contribute to efficient and reliable deployment processes for Fortune 500/1000 clients. You will collaborate with a team to optimize systems, enhance observability, and maintain cloud and Kubernetes environments. This role involves managing CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and implementing monitoring solutions. The position offers a blend of technical challenges and opportunities for professional growth. You can work 100% remotely if located in LATAM or join the Montevideo, Uruguay office. Blend offers various perks and benefits, including flexible working options, equipment, snacks, social events, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with GCP and AWS
• Proficiency in managing, scaling, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and creating infrastructure templates
• Practical experience with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or similar, to streamline deployment processes
• Ability to create and maintain infrastructure templates and automation scripts
• Comfortable with participating in on-call rotations and addressing high-priority incidents
• Experience with security best practices in cloud environments
• Excellent written and verbal English for clear and effective communication with the team
• 4+ years' of experience in similar roles

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a DevOps team to support and improve systems critical for seamless app deployment
• Support development teams by creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and reusable infrastructure templates
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters, ensuring performance, scalability, and security
• Implement and maintain observability solutions using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana to monitor system health and performance
• Develop and update runbooks to document solutions for recurring issues and guide incident resolution
• Participate in on-call rotations, providing support to resolve critical issues and maintain system uptime
• Address unplanned tasks, such as incident resolution and urgent requests

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with additional observability tools or frameworks

Benefits

• Every day lunches! (headquarters)
• Vegetarian, vegan, gluten and sugar-free options
• Gourmet meals every Friday with our on-site chef!
• Flexible working options to help you strike the right balance
• All the equipment you need to harness your talent (Macbook and accessories)
• Snacks and beverages available everyday (headquarters)
• After office events, football, tennis and game nights (headquarters)
• Everyone is welcome to join our football league every Wednesday’s and Friday’s
• Challenge your teammates to a pool game and win the office’s trophy!
• Tennis courts available for friendly matches
• You are not a sports person? Don’t worry, we also have chess championships, game and music nights for you to join!
• AWS Certifications (we are AWS Partners)
• Study plans, courses and other certifications
• English Lessons
• Learn from your teammates on our Tech Tuesdays!
• Mentoring and Development opportunities to shape your career path
• Anniversary and birthday gifts
• Great location and even greater teammates!