Job Description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our infrastructure and automation pipelines using cutting-edge technologies. You will play a crucial role in optimising our software development lifecycle (SDLC) and ensuring the smooth and efficient delivery of our cloud-native applications.

As an ideal candidate, you will be able to:

• Design, develop, and maintain our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with software development teams to integrate DevOps best practices into the development process, ensuring efficient continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub, Buildkite, and other industry-leading tools to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure our cloud-native applications' high availability, performance, and security.
• Optimize infrastructure and application performance through automation, load balancing, and scalability techniques.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, evaluate, and implement cloud-native tools and technologies that enhance our DevOps processes and overall efficiency.
• Implement security best practices to safeguard our cloud infrastructure and applications, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and vulnerability management.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application issues, working closely with development, customer-success teams and third-party vendors as necessary.
• Stay relevant with the latest trends and advancements in DevOps, cloud-native tools, and infrastructure technologies.

Core Objectives

• Work closely with the company team and with our partners to ensure smooth operations for our customers; in particular you will be required to work closely with our technology partner that is based in Australia.
• Engage across multiple internal and external stakeholders; including regular updates and reports on status and progress.
• Manage insights, reporting and escalations of the ongoing operations.
• Become the local expert on the technology of our partner, to the point of being the local representative with full understanding of the op erations of the technology stack.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Experience

• Solid experience in a DevOps or site reliability engineering (SRE) role, preferably in a cloud-native environment.
• Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools, specifically Terraform.
• Extensive knowledge of Cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS or Azure.
• Familiarity with cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and related tools, such as GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, or similar.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud-native tools and technologies, including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless (Cloud Functions, Lambda), and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with Cloudflare or other CDN and DNS services.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, protocols, and security.
• Strong scripting and automation skills, with proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.

Skills

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.