DevOps Engineer – EU Night Shift

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Greece.

📋 Description

• Assist in enhancing and maintaining various hybrid production infrastructure environments for over 15 development teams managing more than 100 products, 10,000+ domains, and billions of hits daily.

• Aid developers in resolving intricate technical challenges across multiple stacks and environments.

• Design and strategize improvements for a multi-datacenter development environment.

• Engage in design choices, including researching new technologies and creating prototypes.

• Advocate for and support development teams in transitioning their services to more automated and elastic infrastructures utilizing top-tier technologies (Cloud, Kubernetes, Serverless, etc.).

• Document processes and monitor performance metrics across all our environments and services.

• Promote and implement effective CICD strategies and practices.

• Contribute to the development and enhancement of critical cloud-based shared services that serve multiple products.

• Support and expand the coverage of our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework.

• Mentor junior DevOps personnel to gain experience and adhere to best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in a similar role.

• A passion for enhancing efficiency and reliability.

• Experience as a DevOps or Systems Administrator with several years in Linux environments.

• Knowledge of scalability patterns applicable to infrastructure architecture for high-traffic systems.

• Strong understanding of the three major Cloud providers' offerings, with real-world experience in at least one.

• Familiarity with provisioning servers, virtual machines, and services using VMWare or an equivalent.

• Capable and willing to assist developers in debugging complex issues.

• Comfortable with the command line, scripting, and configuring applications such as Web Servers, Load Balancers, etc.

• Experience managing highly available database clusters and caching systems.

• Solid understanding of networking and infrastructure setup in a web hosting/delivery environment (DNS, HTTPS, WAF).

• Proficient in debugging and coding (preferably in Python).

• Good understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery models and best practices.

• Experience with Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with configuration management and/or orchestration tools like Ansible.

• Knowledge of monitoring processes and tools.

• Self-sufficient with excellent communication and time management skills.

• Advanced experience with ElasticSearch (Nice To Have).

• Advanced experience with Percona Server for MySQL (Nice To Have).

• Experience managing GitLab server instances (Nice To Have).

• Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes across all major cloud providers (Nice To Have).

• Ability to switch contexts professionally (Nice To Have).

• Proficiency in command-line usage (Nice To Have).

• Natural leadership qualities (Nice To Have).

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment.

• Opportunities for professional development.