Staff DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Fandom's growing team as a Staff DevOps Engineer in Poznan! Reporting to the Manager of Network Operations, you will develop and monitor scalable infrastructure in a large-scale Linux environment. Collaborate with development teams to ensure services are designed for scale, operability, and ease of use. Diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues across the entire stack. Drive the entire lifecycle of DevOps projects and feature developments. Mentor other engineers and participate in on-call duties. This role requires extensive experience in DevOps, system administration, and networking.

Requirements

• Experience scaling and monitoring production infrastructure for heavy user load, e.g., 10,000,000+ monthly active users
• 5+ years of Technical Operations, DevOps, System Operations, Network Operations or Site Reliability experience
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with configuration management tools (preferably Chef, but experience with Puppet, Ansible, or other equivalent tools is acceptable)
• A strong understanding of Linux systems, both high and low level
• Proficiency with modern monitoring systems e.g., Prometheus
• Proficiency with networking protocols (OSI network layers, TCP/IP, routing)
• Proficiency in identifying and creating useful systems’ metrics needed to maintain performance and availability
• Knowledge of relational databases
• Programming experience with scripting and coding: go, python, perl etc

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high availability systems
• Lead improvement of code integration and deployment processes
• Contribute to and occasionally lead meetings: planning, stand-ups, RCAs and retrospectives
• Provide strategy and thought leadership in product and technical decisions
• Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, network management, and security/performance monitoring
• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards and make recommendations for improvement
• Mentor other passionate engineers with diverse skill sets in a collaborative team environment
• Participate in on-call duties on a rotational basis

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud providers: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon AWS
• Knowledge of Prometheus, Hashicorp Consul, Terraform, or Vault
• Understanding of the ELK stack (elasticsearch, logstash, kibana)
• Strong Networking experience (BGP, VPNs, network security) – for example, CNA certification
• Experience building and maintaining continuous integrations and deployment pipelines

Benefits

• MacBook Pro and all the gear you need for work
• Free access to a multitude of popular online courses and books sponsored by our company
• Company stock options
• Company swag packages
• Cafeteria Benefit Program (including private medical care, gym membership, shopping/wellness bonus, etc.)
• VTO (Voluntary Time Off) - a day off every quarter for volunteering non-profit
• Frequent team bonding events
• Flexible work hours & time-off
• Employee Interest and Hobby Groups supported by our company
• Open, energetic and fan-focused, international work environment