DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Swiftly, a retail digital technology startup, as a DevOps Engineer to scale multi-tenant applications and take ownership of your work. This full-time contract role utilizes Deel for contract management. You will design and manage operational infrastructure, partner with engineering stakeholders, build and maintain infrastructural services, and establish healthy software engineering practices. The position requires automation expertise, ensuring system uptime and scalability. Swiftly offers a collaborative environment and values employee contributions.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience
• 5+ years of professional experience in software development
• Experience with Kubernetes, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience operating distributed systems and highly available backend services
• Demonstrated ability to be analytical and have strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proficient in building non trivial applications in Python or Go for infrastructure concerns
• Experience working with Azure, and preferably AKS
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including logging, monitoring, continuous integration/deployment, infrastructure as code, and automated testing practices
• Proven Success operating in production Azure or similar cloud-native deployment and operational contexts, including Kubernetes, Pulumi/Terraform, and Open Telemetry/Grafana/New Relic/Datadog

Responsibilities

• Design and drive consensus for the operational infrastructure of our platform team. This includes how our microservices are provisioned, how they will run in test and production, how configurations and networking is managed per environment, and how all systems are monitored, supported, and scaled in production
• Partner with Platform and Professional Services engineering stakeholders to identify operational needs and deliver solutions as part of the infrastructure
• Write, deliver, and maintain infrastructural services that can be used by directly by development teams, including documentation and support materials
• Establish and reinforce healthy software engineering practices – including: code quality, continuous delivery, and automated testing
• Aggressively automate all the things and make it easy to do the right thing when it comes to security, reliability, and resource management using GitOps principles.  Drive the automation from build Pipelines (Azure DevOps/ Github actions), Kubernetes operators (Flux/Argo) and scaling via KEDA
• Ensure the uptime and scalability or systems through best practices such as auto-healing and circuit breaking
• Other related duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Kubernetes Service Mesh
• Grafana
• Argo CD
• Terraform
• Sonar cloud
• Experience designing and deploying infrastructure automation for use by multiple application development teams
• Experience running Kubernetes workloads in multiple cloud regions

Benefits

$8,000 - $10,000 a month