Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Our Partner

Our Partner is enabling a world where everyone and everything can be intelligently connected. You interact with products and technologies made possible by our Partner every day. Their powerful connectivity solutions keep you connected—even in remote areas. Their 5G and AI innovations are the power behind the connected intelligent edge. You’ll find their technologies behind and inside the innovations that deliver significant value across multiple industries and to billions of people every day. 

Their Edgewise Suite is a leading AI-driven, cloud-native RAN automation, management, and orchestration platform that is designed to help accelerate 5G deployment – and drive innovation to deliver superior network performance and end-customer experience.

Overall Objective of the Role

We are currently seeking candidates who possess the following qualifications:

• 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.

Reasons to Work with Us

• Motivating financial conditions.
• International projects with worldwide recognition.
• A good work-life balance with flexible schedule and work from home / remote as much as possible.
• Exciting new career in a friendly, dynamic, growing organization.
• Professional development in a friendly multicultural environment.
• 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.

As a global digital transformation company, Orion values creating a productive, diverse work environment. We are committed to maintaining a positive work environment where our people value traits that make each one of us different from one another. We all bring a diverse set of perspectives, work and life experiences, and our differences make us more valuable both internally and for our clients.