Contributing to important architectural and operational decisions like micro-services vs. monoliths, deployment techniques, technologies, policies, etc. Work closely with CTOs, engineering leaders and architects.
Develop products in the cloud-native ecosystem or architect and develop tools to help adoption of cloud native technology.
Leading incident response and postmortems
Mentor and train team members and review their work
Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Opensearch, Kinesis.
Various other Cloud Native technologies
Desired Skills & Experience
6 plus years experience in a DevOps and/or software engineering role
Minimum 1 year of experience leading a team of DevOps, SRE, CI/CD engineers of any size.
Must have logging experience. Good to have- Opensearch, Kinesis.
Hands-on scripting and software development fluency in any programming language (Python, Go, Node, Ruby).
Solid understanding & experience of setting up build & release processes (CI & CD expert)
Experience working with modern DevOps tooling, understanding concepts/tooling such as Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Docker Orchestration, service discovery, secrets management, etc.
Proficient with Kubernetes concepts such as Pods, Services, Deployments, Statefulsets, volume claims, Helm Charts etc.
Infrastructure automation experience with knowledge of at least a few of these tools: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform, Packer
Proficiency with one or more SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch or MongoDB.
You’re willing to learn various new technologies and concepts. The “cloud-native” field of software is evolving fast and you’ll need to quickly learn new technologies as required.
Communication: You like discussing a plan upfront, welcome collaboration, and are an excellent verbal and written communicator.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience