DevOps Engineer

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer within the Infrastructure Engineering team, you are

essential in automating and scaling the systems and services that power our

streaming platform. You will partner with other infrastructure engineers and our

development teams to work on and lead projects related to infrastructure

automation, scaling, and CICD. You will play an important role in driving them

forward to completion and ensuring that the platform processes, automation and

best practices are being followed and guide them to improving observability,

security, and reliability. In collaboration with other engineers, you develop tools and

systems that support services and facilitate high-quality software delivery. You are

expected to take on initiatives to improve our technologies and processes.

About you

You have an in-depth understanding of Software and DevOps methodologies,

automation, and infrastructure as code. Your experience in designing, building, and

scaling high availability systems shows your commitment to operational excellence.

You excel in a collaborative environment and can work well with your teammates,

providing a good example to other engineers to achieve high quality and standards

in everything they do. As a Senior DevOps engineer, you will report to the DevOps

Manager.

Requirements:

At least a Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science,

information technology, information systems, or similar.

8+ years of experience working in production-level environments as a

DevOps/SRE

Expert in AWS cloud technologies, coupled with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

such as Pulumi and Terraform

3+ years of experience managing containerized infrastructure in ECS or

Kubernetes

Experience in GitOps practices and CI/CD.

Experience managing Linux based infrastructure.

Experience with observability and instrumentation of services so that

efficient dashboards and alerts are created.

Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL and

non-relational databases like MongoDB, DynamoDB.

Experience with CDN and caching technologies including AWS CloudFront.

Experience working with and guiding Software Engineers in production best

practices, sharing knowledge across teams and teammates.

Experience in at least two or more programming languages including

TypeScript

Able to accommodate periodic evening meetings with the US based team.

Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders.

Participate in an on-call and developer support rotations.

Pluses:

Knowledge of streaming video delivery, video encoding workflows, video

origin architecture, and issues of scale for video delivery.

Familiarity with big data and payments domain.

Understand security concepts such as cryptography, authentication,

authorization, and security protocols.

Familiarity with Datadog

Familiarity with GitHub Actions