DevOps Engineer (Pooling/Remote-External)

This client provides a SaaS-based, next-generation Vendor & Contract Lifecycle Management (VCLM) and Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) solution. They help customers regain visibility of their vendor contracts, control vendor and contract processes, and ensure third-party compliance.

The company has consistently achieved significant, profitable year-on-year growth with long-term customers, including major corporations across various industries.

Due to strong global growth and recent private equity investment, they are seeking an ambitious DevOps Engineer to help build top-tier infrastructure with performance and security monitoring, supporting their industry-leading contract and vendor management platform.

Note: This is a fully remote position and can be based anywhere in Poland

In this role you will:

• Work in a cross-functional agile team to lead system design and deployment activities
• Provide solutions across a number of domains including monitoring, performance and CI/CD tooling
• Bring in the new and latest technologies and techniques while driving their adoption where appropriate
• Participate in engineering chapter discussions to inform infrastructure requirements to solve complex business cases
• Develop and maintain all supporting infrastructure and operational documentation
• Be aware of and manage possible security issues including ownership of penetration testing
• Drive cost reduction activities through service optimisations
• Improve monitoring and application performance

About you

• Are you comfortable in a fast-paced, agile environment, managing multiple initiatives simultaneously?
• Are you a natural team player and lifelong learner?
• Are you empathetic, with attention to detail and an eye for problem-solving?

If this sounds like you, then please read on….

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years in a similar DevOps or Cloud Engineer role.
• A strong understanding of security best practices, with proven experience in implementing and managing security measures within a cloud environment, focusing on proactive threat detection and mitigation?
• Experience with security tools and technologies, including Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), and application monitoring tools to ensure robust protection of our infrastructure.
• Deep experience administering Linux systems including modern best practices in server security
• Experience in building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
• Experience with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation, Ansible/Chef/etc.)
• Docker
• VPN server management
• Experience with security systems is a plus: IDS/IPS
• Experience with core AWS platform architecture specific with SaaS solutions
  • Strong knowledge and track record of building and maintaining production systems on AWS using EC2, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, Elastic Beanstalk, Codedeploy
  • Strong knowledge and track record of managing application monitoring: AWS monitoring/alerts, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana
  • In-build tools to manage performance (auto-scaling etc)
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer desirable
• Experience with: ElasticSearch, Postgresql, Redis, Mandrill, Google Cloud
• Experience with supporting Ruby/Rails stack: rvm, Nginx&Puma, Sidekiq, Git, Capistrano. Ruby/Rails coding experience is advantageous
• Excellent English and communication skills
• Great sense of humour and a positive and collaborative attitude

Do not apply for this job if:

• You are not fanatically focused solving customer problems
• You ever consider mediocrity acceptable
• You need to be told what to do
• You want to be the smartest person in the (virtual) room
• Don’t like working with the best and learning something new
• You have an ego bigger than your sense of humour

WHAT WE OFFER

• 100% remote working: live and work wherever you like - no more commutes
• Generous vacation package
• Learning & Development opportunities for lifelong learners
• Technology: we provide everything you need to do your best work
•  Match funding to support non-profit organisations in your local community
• Company retreats