Job Description

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will work closely with Product Designers, Product Managers and the Software Engineers within your team to build scalable software following industry best-practices for testing, security and user experience.

What you will do:

• The overall platform\xe2\x80\x99s infrastructure and associated systems in terms of performance, availability, scalability and security;
• Cloud environment administration (Google Cloud);
• Handle application release management, infrastructure provisioning and deployment;
• Monitor and Report on the Production platform;
• Own the Escalation process;
• Analyze log files and identify root causes for Infrastructure or Application problems;
• Work with internal teams and strategic vendors to implement fixes in Production;
• Pro-actively identify infrastructure improvements.

What we look for in you:

We require an experienced, no-nonsense, hands-on DevOps Engineer. We are looking for the following qualifications and skills;

• Solid understanding of English (written and oral);
• Experience managing applications in a cloud-based environment like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.
• Solid scripting ability in any of BASH, Python, Ruby etc.
• Some experience with release management is a plus
• Experience with a web monitoring platform e.g. AppDynamics or DynaTrace is a plus
• Experience in working with containerised workloads (Docker)
• Experience in managing a Kubernetes cluster
• Broad domain knowledge of networks, systems administration and network security
• Either a Bachelors or Diploma in Computer Science or demonstrable skill and experience in the relevant subjects.
• An ability to communicate complex concepts clearly.
• A hunger for knowledge, discovery and learning new things.
• A preference for persuading others through calm, respectful,rational argument.
• An acknowledgement that we can always do better, and a willingness to keep seeking that better way of doing things.