DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Zyte's globally distributed team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and contribute to maintaining, growing, and improving our Platform infrastructure. You will work with a small team to ensure our core infrastructure runs smoothly 24/7, supporting a broad range of technologies. Collaborate with developers to migrate to our next-generation infrastructure, focusing on automation and tooling for our large-scale clusters. Embrace open-source technologies and creatively solve scalability challenges in our cloud and on-prem environment. This role involves improving monitoring, researching new tools, troubleshooting issues, and managing assigned cases. Zyte offers remote work flexibility and opportunities to contribute to open-source projects.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience working as a DevOps engineer at reasonable scale (hundreds of systems) and designing/deploying ‘highly available’ solutions
• Experience and demonstrated knowledge with: Apache Mesos/Marathon, HAProxy, Nginx, Percona XtraDB/MySQL clusters, Salstack
• Proficiency on these programming languages: Python and Bash/Shell scripting
• Experience running microservice applications on containers
• Highly organized, able to multitask, able to work individually, as well as within a team, and across teams
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English
• Flexibility around working hours - if there is an issue you should use your initiative and help resolve it
• Maintaining and respecting confidentiality of large amounts of information you have access to
• Quick and avid learner of previously unknown technologies/stacks

Responsibilities

• Improve and maintain our Platform infrastructure to meet the expectations from other technical teams and their associated stakeholders
• Plan, build and execute legacy infrastructure migrations
• Provide recommendations and solutions for existing Platform infrastructure to improve reliability, security and performance
• Proactively ensure our Platform runs with minimal interruptions
• Creatively solve scalability challenges in a rapidly expanding cloud & on prem environment
• Help improve monitoring and identify key performance metrics
• Proactive research and development, discovering and implementing new tools, emerging technology, etc
• Own assigned trouble cases, managing and keeping up with all cases assigned, follow up and resolve cases in accordance with SLAs
• Troubleshooting and resolution of server/network and application issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus points for: Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Hadoop/HBase, ProxySQL and CircleCI
• Bonus points for Golang/Java experience

Benefits

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team
• Have the freedom & flexibility to work remotely
• Get the chance to work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools
• Allocated hours for Open Source contributions
• 35 paid time off per year