Senior DevOps Engineer

We're helping one of our clients, Web Shop Manager, hire a Senior DevOps Engineer.

“Empowering eCommerce success globally with advanced product data expertise and superior customer experience”

Compensation: To be agreed upon.

Location: Remote (for Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and México residents).

Skills: Proficient Machine learning, System optimization, Git, AWS, GCP (Google Cloud Platform), RAG (Retrieval-augmented generation), CI/CD, DevOps, GitHub, Terraform, Python, AI (Artificial intelligence), computer science, Docker, Kubernetes and Bash.

Responsibilities and more:
We are seeking a full-stack developer ready to work with new technologies and architectures in a forward-thinking organization that constantly pushes boundaries.

**Responsibilities**:

- Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

- Collaborate with development teams to design, implement, and maintain infrastructure using tools like Terraform, or CloudFormation.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, and scaling of cloud resources.

Monitoring and Incident Response:

- Set up monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry, NewRelic, ---- Prometheus, OpsGenie, StatusPage) to track service-level indicators (SLIs) and respond to incidents promptly.
- Participate in on-call rotations, diagnosing and resolving production issues.

Capacity Planning and Performance Optimization:

- Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize resource utilization.

Reliability Engineering:

- Define and track service-level objectives (SLOs).
- Implement chaos engineering practices (e.g., game days, fault injection) to validate system resilience.
- Implement load testing on services (K6 Grafana, Artillery).

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD):

- Enhance CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth and reliable software releases.
- Implement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags.

Security and Compliance:

- Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., CIS, NIST, SOC, ISO).
- Implement security best practices, including access controls, encryption, and vulnerability scanning.

Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:

- Document infrastructure, processes, and incident response procedures.
- Share knowledge with team members through internal workshops or presentations.

Required skills and qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years in DevOps or SRE roles.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Proficiency with Terraform and Cloudformation.
Programming and Scripting:

- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar).
- Expert with Git, Github (actions) and version control.

Collaboration and Communication:

- Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
- Ability to work across cross-functional teams.

Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills:

- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and optimize system performance.

Certifications (optional):

- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional DevOps Engineer, or similar.
- Ability to write and maintain clear and concise technical documentation.
- Experience in search technologies such as full-text lexical search and/or semantic vector-based search.
- Strong understanding and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with ML, ML embeddings and generative AI.
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Experience working with AWS Bedrock.
- Experience in designing and building infrastructure for RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with data lakes, and processing large datasets and working with Big Data and Analytics.
- Knowledge of Ruby, Python, Javascript (Node.JS, React, Typescript, ES6, Cypress), Go, Rust, Elixir.
- Experience Experience working with data processing frameworks and services such as Apache Spark and Airflow.
Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, influxDB, Milvus, and Quadrant.
- Experience with Messaging Queues such as RabbitMQ, AWS SQS and Kafka.
- Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
- Experience in unit/integration testing.
- An octopus called Dave.

If you are a talented DevOps Engineer with a passion for creating innovative solutions and thriving in a fast-paced startup environment, we would love to hear from you.