Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Factor Eleven's team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and empower users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance. You will work closely with Product Owners and engineering teams, providing reliable, future-proof solutions using AWS and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include monitoring production environments, guiding team members, building software and systems, and optimizing system performance. You will collaborate with development teams and participate in system design and capacity planning. This role requires extensive experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and various programming languages. Factor Eleven offers a fully remote work environment within Europe, flexible hours, and various other perks.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience working as Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer or similar role
• Firm grasp on Kubernetes with Helm and container composition using Docker
• Excellent knowledge and working experience with AWS
• Ability to program (structured and OO) with multiple high level languages, such as TypeScript, Rust, C/C++, C#, Python, GoLang or Java
• Extensive experience with Application Performance Monitoring, Tracing and Logging software such as DataDog, Kibana, Graphana, HoneyComb, Harvest etc
• Good experience with event driven architecture using distributed message brokers such as Apache Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ or Redis Streams
• Good knowledge of dynamic resource management frameworks (Kubernetes, Yarn, Helm, cdk8s, AWS CDK, Terraform)
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Basic knowledge of common tools and pipelines in the NodeJS/NPM ecosystem
• Problem-solving attitude and team spirit

Responsibilities

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Plan, guide and review the contributions of your team members
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for our digital advertisement SaaS platform
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Preferred Qualifications

AWS and/or Kubernetes certifications

Benefits

• Transparent, above-market salaries
• 100% remote within Europe
• Flexible work-hours and part-time models
• Be part of a fast-growing, highly-skilled team
• In person department and company events
• Home office, co-working space and work-together allowance
• Personal and professional development courses from Udemy
• Case by case relocation and visa support