Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Hostaway's DevOps team as a fully remote Senior DevOps Engineer based in Europe and contribute to the reliability and security of our market-leading SaaS platform. You will actively participate in design decisions, assist development teams with containerization, and champion reliability across the company. Lead efforts to optimize CI/CD pipelines, automate processes, and resolve critical issues. This role requires extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps methodologies, and AWS, along with a strong understanding of Kubernetes and monitoring tools. Hostaway offers competitive compensation, 100% remote work, equity, and professional growth opportunities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools and methodologies
• AWS professional expertise is a hard requirement, knowing best practices and having used it at scale. The more AWS you know the better. GCP knowledge is a plus but not required
• Extensive experience in Terraform / OpenTofu for infrastructure as code. You should have experience with modules, and managing different environments in a production setup. Terragrunt knowledge a plus but not required
• Understanding of classic sysadmin topics: Linux administration, knowledge of networking stack, Bash scripting, security best practices
• Professional experience with Kubernetes is required. Knowledge of Helm, ArgoCD a plus
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring/logging tools and working knowledge of the SRE approach to reliability (golden signals, tackling toil, customer focus)
• The ideal candidate will have familiarity with at least one scripting language and be able to understand and debug production code to help identify issues
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and responding to production incidents within a blameless culture that focuses on process and technology improvements
• Willingness to embrace and learn new technologies as the DevOps landscape evolves
• Fluent English and outstanding communication skills

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in design decisions concerning our infrastructure, infrastructure security, and leveraging modern infrastructure practices and DevOps methodologies where applicable. (Containerization, Configuration Management, CI/CD, IaC, Monitoring)
• Assist the development teams with containerization efforts, maintain reliable Kubernetes clusters that are easy for the teams to use
• Be an ambassador for reliability across the company, help with design decisions that improve observability and work with teams to create and maintain actionable alerts and runbooks
• Lead collaborative efforts with the development team to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring streamlined and high-performance software delivery
• Drive toil down and have an automation-first mindset when approaching problems
• Resolve critical issues across various platforms and environments, addressing challenges such as unavailability, outages, inconsistencies, misconfigurations, data delays. Be an active participant in incident management and in improving it

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant
• 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one)
• Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success
• Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions
• Professional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities
• Annual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms
• Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant
• Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here)