Desired Skills and Experience

  • Building a scalable, fault-tolerant and cost-effective architecture
  • Automating builds and deployments of microservices
  • Managing Couchbase, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis and Kafka clusters
  • Security awareness around the solutions you implement and have a plan in place to secure these as part of the build out
  • Work effectively within the DevOps team and also with the engineering teams. Desire to design a solution as part of a team
  • Analysing and troubleshooting performance of services - written in Python, GoLang and Node.js
  • Working very closely with software engineers to provide guidance about architectural patterns and goals
  • If you are keen, cutting some Node.js and GoLang application code to truly break down all walls between dev and ops
  • Strong experience with AWS or similar cloud-based provider
  • Site reliability experience
  • Have worked on deployment and management of servers, services and networking
  • You possess a strong ‘infrastructure as code’ approach to managing infrastructure
  • Experience with Linux system administration
  • Strong configuration management, CI and CD experience is an advantage
  • Microservices experience is an advantage
  • Experience in a startup environment where you can make and understand the value of pragmatic decisions