Sr. DevOps Engineer

Our Mission is to Simplify Life. We are looking to Simplify and automate complex decision-making for customer centric industries, like Utilities, Financial Services, Logistics, and commerce, that drive the world's economies and you have the chance to join the revolution. We are trying to solve huge challenges in today's enterprise that are directly impacting the employee and customer experience.

Avertra’s DevOps team is responsible for building and maintaining a modern, scalable, highly available infrastructure to power up our products and service for our clients all over the world. We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer who has strong practical troubleshooting skills, advanced overall systems knowledge, public clouds, and provisioning tools. The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Designing, building, shipping, and maintaining distributed systems.
• Building Monitoring, logging, alerting around our infrastructure and applications.
• Improving the reliability of our systems and CI/CD pipelines both internally and for our customers.
• Putting everything into code.
• Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multi-region and multi-cloud environments.
• Working in close collaboration with multi-functional teams.
• Technical writing / Documentation.
• Vendor Management.

Main Job Responsibilities:

Continuous Integration and Deployment:

• Implement and maintain automated build, test, and deployment pipelines using industry-standard tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, or GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps…etc.
• Design and configure continuous integration and delivery workflows to enable frequent and reliable releases of software applications.

Infrastructure Automation:

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and configuration of cloud-based environments.
• Implement and manage containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes for scalable and resilient application deployments.

Monitoring and Performance Optimization:

• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues related to scalability, reliability, and availability.
• Implement and configure monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or ELK Stack to proactively identify bottlenecks and optimize system performance.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, system administrators, and quality assurance, to improve the development and deployment processes.
• Act as a bridge between development and operations teams, facilitating effective communication and knowledge sharing.

Security and Compliance:

• Implement and enforce security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, industry standards, and internal policies.

Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:

• Document infrastructure configurations, deployment processes, and troubleshooting guidelines.
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing initiatives and help in developing best practices within the organization.

Skills

Experience:

• 5+ years of relevant of hands-on experience in the DevOps industry
• Containerization (Kubernetes and OpenShift)
• Configuration tools and frameworks (Terraform, Istio, Helm)
• Knowledge of systems (Linux, GNU tooling), networking (OSI model, DNS, routing, SSL Certificates) and virtualization vs containerization
• Public clouds: AWS/Azure/GCP/Mendix
• Security Awareness
• Experience with CI/CD concepts
• Experience in conducting IT audits, both internal and external

Needed Competencies:

• Fluent in both oral and written English
• Time Management skills
• Capable of succeeding in a very dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Able to work individually as well as being a cooperative team player
• Knowledge of programming languages
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Good attention to detail
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
• Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong understanding of software development methodologies and the SDLC.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Travis CI, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus,New Relic Grafana, or ELK Stack.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferences:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification.
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• Docker Certified Associate (DCA).
• Puppet Certified Professional.

Education: Degree in Computer Science or related field (Master / Bachelor level).

Travel: Based on customer requirement(s).

Work Schedule: Local Avertra office schedule.

Benefits

What can we promise you:

• You’ll join a global family of awesome, passionate people that are working together to build a sustainable, scalable ecosystem committed to using logic to create a better experience.
• We want you to help us become better. You will be empowered to drive change and innovate.
• That we will invest in you. We will give you the opportunity to master your domain and drive excellence.