Senior DevOps Engineer

Our Partner is all about enabling the networks of the future today.
Their cloudified and AI-driven RAN automation and orchestration platform enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to accelerate mobile networks (including 5G) deployment and go-to-market, as
well as the ROI on their network investments.

Overall Objective of the Role

• Follow DevOps best practices and procedures.
• An extensive background in developing and operating large-scale cloud-based distributed applications.
• Direct experience in developing/running applications on both OpenStack and Azure/AWS platforms.
• Laser focus and be able to design infrastructure solutions for scalability, reliability, high availability, performance, software maintainability, and operational excellence.
• The ability to "fix the plane while in flight" (not just support greenfield solutions).
• The ability to prioritize existing technical and infrastructure debt, and experience to build and execute a plan to pay it off.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure as a code using Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes.
• Manage and performance tune either databases (NIFI, Elasticsearch) or streaming data pipelines (Kafka).
• Manage CICD pipelines, configuration, automation tools for infrastructure provisioning.
• Write and maintain runbooks for knowledge driven automated processes and bots.
• Do capacity planning based on performance, usage, and utilization stats.
• Partner with developers and quality engineering teams to automate the monitoring, alerting, availability and scalability of our applications and systems.
• Ensure system availability and business continuity by implementing redundant servers/services.
• Manage after-hours infrastructure updates and maintenance.
• Proactively research and propose the use of new concepts, processes, technologies, and tools.
• Proactive monitoring, diagnosis, on-call rotation, and resolution of issues in a 24x7 of multi-cloud environment (OpenStack), analyze failures and provide support for software engineers to debug production issues across microservices and distributed platforms.
• Follow DevOps best practices and procedures.
• Delivering reliable operations for web-scale infrastructure for a global market at high release velocity
  

Requirements

Must have:
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Kafka, MySQL, Nginx, Mesos, Nifi, Elasticsearch, Vertica, Zookeeper.
• 3-5 years of industry experience in managing infrastructure.
• 3-5 years of experience in Linux administration in a large-scale SaaS environment.
• 3-5 years of maintaining production systems on either AWS, Azure or OpenStack.
• 3 years of experience in managing Kubernetes in a large-scale production environment.
• Strong familiarity in running and optimizing RDBs and NoSQL databases.
• 3 years of experience using infrastructure as code software such as Terraform, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Deployment, CloudFormation.
• 3-5 years of experience in continuous integration practices & tools (such as Jenkins).
• Experience in the use of monitoring solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK.

Nice to have:
• Solid experience in at least one of the following languages: Go or Python.

What our client is offering:

• Private medical subscription @ Medlife or Regina Maria.
• Meal tickets.
• Gift Vouchers for your birthday / wedding / childbirth.
• Wellbeing Programs (sick days, 7Card, relaxation facilities in the office).
• Team buildings & other social experiences.
• Referral bonuses.
• Budget granted for certifications required in the project.
• Workshops on different topics and internal courses.
• Access to LinkedIn learning platform, at request.
• Access to Udemy platform, if required in the project.
• City center office location.
• Shared parking spaces


We are looking forward to receiving your application (English CV) over the application-dashboard. Our responsible consultant will contact you immediately after receipt.