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Senior DevOps Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Several years experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure, ideally in Amazon Web Services
  • Extensive, hands-on experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform
  • Great scripting skills (bash and python)

Responsibilities

  • Manage a multi-region Kubernetes platform handling billions of requests a month across the globe
  • Work closely with engineering teams to deploy, maintain, and monitor applications
  • Monitor the state-of-health of the infrastructure and diagnose errors
  • Identify opportunities to incorporate new technologies or techniques to improve service reliability

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
  • Collaboration
  • Curiosity
  • Success Driven

About the company

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ATHENAWORKS

  • 51–200
WE ARE LED BY WOMEN WHO ARE DAILY CREATING GLOBAL DIVERSITY CHANGE Athenaworks was founded to create a culture of empowerment, diversity, and equality for female technologists everywhere. A culture where everyone is safe and empowered with the freedom, flexibility, and support to create best-in-class solutions in an unfettered way. Our founders believe that the only way to achieve balanced, fair and open teams is to make it part of the way we do business each day. So, our socially conscious business model is based on an environment for all that embraces, encourages and empowers each team member through an approach that emphasizes equal access, equal pay, equal opportunity on a global level playing field that has no ceiling on advancement. ATHENAWORKS has committed itself to this mission of valuing the contributions of teams through a genuine culture of empowerment, diversity and equality for all members. This approach allows us to deliver exceptional consistent results to all our clients. Because happy respected people create great things.

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Job description

Join Us to Shape the Digital World. We’re passionate about delivering cutting-edge technology to some of the world’s top startups and companies, powered by diverse and empowered teams of technologists eager to drive change. As a female-led organization, we are committed to creating a safe, inclusive space where everyone, regardless of their background, is treated with respect and equity.

 We value people with strong technical skills who are collaborative, curious, results-driven, and take ownership. We embrace people who want to be themselves, enjoy daily flexibility, and are eager to grow, learn, and make a difference wherever the opportunity arises.

 If this resonates with you, we encourage you to apply for the role of Senior DevOps Engineer . We're seeking exceptional talent to work on immersive client projects that will challenge and hone your skills.

In this role, expect to

• Manage a multi-region Kubernetes platform handling billions of requests a

month across the globe.

• Work closely with engineering teams, giving them the tools and skills to deploy,

maintain, and monitor their applications on our platform.

• Monitor the state-of-health of the infrastructure, helping to diagnose the root-

cause of errors and alerts when they occur -- better yet, before they occur.

• Identify opportunities to incorporate new technologies or techniques into our

workflow that improve service reliability and/or increase automation of rote tasks.

• Provide support to our current infrastructure and day to day requirements.

• Be part of our 24/7 support shifts.

To succeed in this role, you should

• Have several years experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure,

ideally in Amazon Web Services.

• Extensive, hands-on experience with Kubernetes.

• Grok the web stack; you can manage SSL certificates and DNS entries in your

sleep.

• Have experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform.

• Be a fast learner and passionate about discovering new technologies.

• Have an eye for security, striving to minimize attack surfaces and vulnerabilities.

• Come with strong opinions on how to simplify and improve our stack.

• Be comfortable wearing a Solutions Engineer hat, helping teams to troubleshoot

issues ranging from ingress routing to resource allocation to permissions

administration.

• Have great scripting skills (bash and python)

• Be able to provide and receive feedback constantly.

• Make documentation on the fly.

• Take CI/CD pipeline building seriously even better if it’s with Github Actions.

A happy team makes a huge difference, that's why we provide:

  • Payment in USD or your local currency 

  • A truly flexible work schedule 

  • An excellent Non-working pay days policy

  • Performance Bonus

  • Learning Budget

  • An opportunity for you to help create change in the industry 

  • And more!

Athenaworks is an inclusive safe organization that only considers your technical ability, work experience, ability to collaborate, capacity to grow to the next level of your career, and ability to deliver great work. This means that we also embrace/welcome self-taught people as well! We will NEVER consider any other personal or professional aspects of your life. We hope that you choose to have a conversation with us today and find out what makes us different from any company that you have experienced.

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