Job Description

Summary

We are looking to hire a DevOps Engineer to join us in our mission to educate the world. The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing configuration management, automate our infrastructure, implement continuous integration to achieve a continuously deployable system. You will work closely with the CTO to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.

Responsibilities

• Build continuous integration, infrastructure, and platform automation tools and spread the DevOps philosophy throughout our teams.
• Work directly with developers to bring new features and services online by helping them incorporate their code and tests within the product.
• Monitor those services and implement alerting tools to keep systems continuous running.
• Help in building a fully automated, hassle-free, and reliable environment.
• Identify possible areas of improvements that might concern process, security, stability, reliability, or the overall utility of the end product.

Qualifications & Work Experience

• Degree in relevant field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Travis CI, etc.).
• Experience with build tools like (MS build, Maven, etc.).
• Experience with different version control systems (Git, TFS).
• Experience working with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, Python, SQL, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL data stores.
• Experience working with REST APIs and AWS.
• Strong grasp of the network stack and its different protocols/components (HTTP, HTTP/2, TCP/IP, load balancing).
• Strong understanding of security principals for network, system, and data security; basic understanding of cryptography is needed.

Behavioural Competencies

• Communication skills.
• Accuracy and attention to details.
• Organization skills.
• Time and stress management skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Adaptability and flexibility.
• Ability to learn new concepts.
• Ability to think analytically.
• Leadership and decision-making skills.
• Self-motivation.