Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) - Europe (Remote, f/m/d)

YOUR MISSION

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer (SCE) to empower our users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. As we expand our digital advertisement SaaS suite, we are leveling up our processes and pipelines and our SCEs get to deliver insights from the massive scale data of our ad-serving stack and to monitor the health and performance of the intricate processes exposed to our clients via APIs and web applications.

You'll be joining our team of SCEs, working closely with the Product Owners and their teams to empower, guide and assist various engineering Teams.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Factor Eleven you'll get to provide reliable, future-proof solutions using AWS and Kubernetes, offer fresh ideas, plan, guide and review the work of your team members, demonstrate a unique and highly informed viewpoint, and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction.


YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Plan, guide and review the contributions of your team members
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for our digital advertisement SaaS platform
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Requirements

YOUR PROFILE

• 5+ years experience working as Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer or similar role
• Firm grasp on Kubernetes with Helm and container composition using Docker
• Excellent knowledge and working experience with AWS
• Ability to program (structured and OO) with multiple high level languages, such as TypeScript, Rust, C/C++, C#, Python, GoLang or Java
• Extensive experience with Application Performance Monitoring, Tracing and Logging software such as DataDog, Kibana, Graphana, HoneyComb, Harvest etc.
• Good experience with event driven architecture using distributed message brokers such as Apache Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ or Redis Streams
• Good knowledge of dynamic resource management frameworks (Kubernetes, Yarn, Helm, cdk8s, AWS CDK, Terraform)
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Basic knowledge of common tools and pipelines in the NodeJS/NPM ecosystem
• Problem-solving attitude and team spirit
• Preferred: AWS and/or Kubernetes certifications

Benefits

WHY US?

Factor Eleven's tech department is the inhouse tech scale-up responsible for our SaaS product suite offering localized digital advertising to enterprises of all sizes and shapes. We're powering the engine that Factor Eleven is successfully built upon and elevate the possibilities of our product on a daily basis. In 2022 we've scaled up, literally doubled in headcount and in 2023 we'll double again. We're working together to fulfill our ambitions as a top ad-tech provider by continuously leveling up the quality and expanding capabilities of the entire platform, as well as our engineering and product organization.

Join our amazing team in our mission to move digital localized advertisement forward and enjoy the freedom, camaraderie and perks of our fully remote operations.

OUR PERKS & BENEFITS

• Transparent, above-market salaries
• 100% remote within Europe
• Flexible work-hours and part-time models
• Be part of a fast-growing, highly-skilled team
• In person department and company events
• Home office, co-working space and work-together allowance
• Personal and professional development courses from Udemy
• Case by case relocation and visa support