Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Zowie, a rapidly growing AI solutions company, as a DevOps Engineer. You will play a crucial role in managing and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, supporting the software release cycle, and ensuring high availability. This position requires extensive experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and various database technologies. You will collaborate with stakeholders, troubleshoot incidents, and implement security protocols. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a proactive attitude, and excellent communication abilities. Zowie offers a dynamic and collaborative work environment where innovation and teamwork are highly valued.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Systems Admin, or similar roles
• High proficiency in working with AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure
• Good familiarity with any CI/CD tool
• Solid expertise in managing any relational database system
• Competence in developing automation scripts in bash (and ideally Python too)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a pragmatic can-do attitude
• A high degree of ownership and ability to drive a project from requirements’ specification with stakeholders, through planning and execution, all the way to successful delivery
• Strong communication skills
• Composure to high-pressure situations to effectively support engineers during incidents

Responsibilities

• Manage, create, and maintain our cloud Kubernetes environment, monitoring stack, on-premise Docker stack, and database technologies (Mongo, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis)
• Provide tools, automate the creation of on-demand development environments, provide CI/CD pipelines, and manage their effectiveness
• Distribute and manage role-based access across the organization with infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Communicate to understand different infrastructure stakeholders’ challenges, provide solution plans, and share best DevOps practices with the engineering team
• Help engineering teams diagnose infrastructure-related problems during incidents
• Implement and manage security protocols to protect company data and systems, including regular updates and monitoring

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with visualization tools like Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus
• Experience with storage tech like MongoDB, Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Experience managing AWS costs, running backup recovery operations
• Experience maintaining Kubernetes manifests with Helm and Argo