Weekend DevOps Engineer position — see original posting for full details.
About the role
What you'll be doing
Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals; covering Saturday, Sunday and Monday (5 days in total with flexibility in your days off) as a Weekend DevOps Engineer
Improve existing infrastructure and processes in the 6 countries we’re currently deployed in as well as streamlining processes deploy to new countries in the future
Holistically improve all aspects of our DevOps infrastructure including: reducing costs; streamlining environment provisioning; lowering response times and incorporating the latest techniques and technologies
Monitor and maintain the existing cloud infrastructure via autoscaling, automated alerts, and OpsWork and Grafana dashboards
Take ownership and responsibility for our cloud operation activities
Liaise with external security agencies for annual audits as well as perform our own internal security sweeps
Aid in reconfiguring existing architecture to allow for rapid deployments to new countries
Mentoring less experienced team members
What you'll bring
3+ years DevOps experience
Must be based in Europe or Asia or LatAM
Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project
Experienced with cloud platforms, especially AWS, including solid knowledge of how to utilise cloud resources to fulfil the demand from other teams and production
A sound understanding of modern Micro Services and Service Mesh concepts
Experience managing Kubernetes, including CI / CD with Kubernetes
Solid networking knowledge, especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol
A strong understanding of cache, including CDN, HTTP cache, Redis / Memcached
Excellent troubleshooting skills, including Linux OS issue diagnosis and OS parameter optimisation, JVM optimisation would be highly advantageous