Senior Platform DevOps Engineer

Join Sedona Digital, a fast-growing scale-up organization with an ambition to be recognized as one of the leading technology companies servicing high tech, global enterprises across Technology, Finance, and Life Sciences sectors. Our global client base needs builders: engineers and developers who love technology, have deep expertise in software, engineering, and cloud technologies, and importantly, have a passion for culture and customers.

• We obsess about our customers

• We build outstanding technical solutions

• We create an awesome culture

• We accelerate learning and careers

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will join a team who strive to push cloud services to the maximum limit every day using cutting-edge technologies. We are looking for a highly self-motivated professional who embraces DevOps culture, has experience with AWS services and technologies and is passionate about learning, automating, innovating and working in a highly collaborative environment.

Your activities will include

• Initiate and actively drive the adoption of good patterns, structures and use of technologies for development and operations

• Investigate and identify practices and work that can benefit from automation

• Monitor and suggest improvements to the existing CI/CD process to increase speed, safety and reliability

• Implement and coordinate implementation with the parties involved

• Develop and maintain existing /GitLab CI pipeline libraries

• Assist developers with setting up CI/CD for their projects and provide support for any issues that may arise

• Stay up to date with the latest tools and trends in the industry

• Provide senior-level, best practice recommendations and implementations to our Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments

• Function as a mentor to junior team members, providing technical guidance and recommending continued learning opportunities to help them develop

• Educate fellow team members as well as Application Development Teams about the platforms used-for and hosted-by our team. Key tools and concepts in this space are: Gitlab, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Istio Service Mesh,  Kubernetes , Kafka, ELK

• Work with our Security team to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities and ensure the security of our environments are being scrutinized as appropriate for their use case

• Offer services related to the above tasks and projects to any of the Companies of the Group as instructed by the Line Manager

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline

• 7+ years’ experience within the following areas: Cloud ( AWS), Release Pipeline Management, Windows Server Administration, Linux Administration, Certificate Management, PowerShell scripting, Bash/python scripting, Configuration Management and IAC (Ansible/Terraform), DNS, Networking

• Enterprise-level Kubernetes experience

• Solid Linux administration skills

• Commitment to continuous improvement, with a focus on observability, modern application architecture styles, blue-green / canary deployments, CI/CD pipeline management

• Ability to self-motivate, study, and stay on-top of emerging technologies and trends, while meeting business deadlines

• Experience with tools including: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MSK, New Relic

Bonus Points: What Will Make You Stand Out

• Familiarity with database concepts

• Working experience with at least one cloud provider (preferably AWS)

• Experience with Apache Kafka configuration and troubleshooting

• Experience with ELK configuration and troubleshooting

• Scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go, etc.)

Benefits

• Work from home

• Medical insurance given after probation period

• Training on market trends and client needs

• Continuous learning and personal development opportunities

• Holiday allowance in line with local legislation

• Competitive compensation package

• Performance - based bonus

• Fun budget for team events