Senior DevOps Engineer, SRE

Summary

Join Fundraise Up, a global fundraising platform, as a DevOps Engineer/SRE to make a significant impact on our infrastructure. You will be a generalist working across our full stack, from server provisioning and CI/CD pipelines to observability and database management. Ensure our platform's scalability, security, and reliability. The role involves managing and automating infrastructure, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, administering data stores and messaging systems, enhancing our observability stack, troubleshooting complex issues, contributing to Kubernetes rollout, and securing our infrastructure. We offer a collaborative environment, a clear product vision, and a transparent company culture. The team is distributed, with members across various countries, and values thoughtful collaboration and strong engineering practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE, or Linux Systems Administrator
• A strong foundation in Linux (we use Ubuntu), including core CLI troubleshooting tools
• Solid experience with configuration management tools, particularly Ansible
• Proficiency in building and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins experience is a major plus)
• A good understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP and firewall configuration (iptables)
• Experience with monitoring and observability principles (Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics stack preferred)
• Scripting ability in Bash or Python
• A high sense of ownership, responsibility, and attention to detail. We value professionals who are proactive and reliable

Responsibilities

• Manage and automate our bare-metal and VM infrastructure using Ansible and custom scripting (Bash/Python)
• Build and maintain complex CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins to ensure smooth and reliable deployments
• Administer and optimize our data stores (MongoDB, ClickHouse) and messaging systems (Kafka, Redis)
• Enhance our observability stack (VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Graylog) to improve monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting capabilities
• Troubleshoot complex issues at the OS, network, and application levels
• Contribute to the rollout and management of Kubernetes on our bare-metal servers
• Secure our infrastructure, including configuring firewalls (iptables) and managing disk encryption

Preferred Qualifications

• Data Systems: Managing ClickHouse, MongoDB, Kafka, JupyterHub, or Airflow
• Observability: VictoriaMetrics or Graylog at scale
• Storage: Software RAID, LVM, and Full Disk Encryption (Clevis/Tang)

Benefits

• 31 days off
• 100% paid telemedicine plan
• Home Office Setup Assistance: the company offers assistance with purchasing furniture (office chair, office desk, monitor) and other items to create a comfortable workspace
• English learning courses
• Relevant professional education
• Gym or swimming pool
• Co-working
• Remote working