What we're looking for

We have been tasked by a Greece-based funded app in the tech-enabled home services market to recruit a DevOps Engineer. The client has presence in Greece and Cyprus and now expanding rapidly to Portugal and Ireland.

This is a wonderful opportunity for a talented DevOps to take a prominent role within the company's product development team.

The ideal candidate would be a resourceful system admin who is interested in the DevOps mindset.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with other engineers to share best practices and knowledge of emerging technologies
Be responsible for client's systems uptime
Make monitoring and alerting improvements on symptoms and not on outages.
Run client's infrastructure with code
Install systems to prevent outages from happening
Maintain and monitor our CI/CD pipeline
Monitor the application’s stability and analyse performance metrics
Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow the application to scale and support thousands of concurrent users
Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
Plan the growth of our infrastructure
Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible
Make infrastructure management even more boring...

The position is available to be fully "remote"

Visa sponsorships to relocate to the EU/Greece ARE NOT available unfortunately

Successful candidates would be required to work +/- 2 hours of the EET (Eastern European) time zone for optimal team communication and availability.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or MS in Engineering or equivalent
2 years of experience in managing Linux based infrastructure, preferably Debian based
2 years of hands-on experience at least in one scripting language, preferably python
2 years of hands-on experience with Ansible
1 year of hands-on experience with Postgres DB management
1 year of experience with any CI/CD system, preferably Gitlab CI
1 year of experience with Docker or any other container system

And you will also

Be a self starter with strong work ethic with a passion for problem-solving
Be flexible and able to adapt to changing priorities and technologies
Think analytically and methodically with attention to detail
Refactor problematic, incomplete parts and constantly improve our codebase
Read, understand & debug code
Follow coding standards and apply good practices
Deliver testable, efficient, reusable, high quality and easy to read code

Bonus

Some hands-on experience with Elasticsearch
Familiarity with ELK stack
Experience with GitLab administration
Knowledge around cloud networking
Familiarity with AWS and Digital Ocean cloud providers

Projects you could work on:

Establish the usage of infrastructure as code
Install monitoring and alerting systems
Moving client's infrastructure from Digital Ocean to AWS
Stabilising client's local and staging environments to assist development
Architecting our infrastructure to have capacity for a global expansion

Benefits

The client's core belief and reason for existence is the care and attention they show to their users, their community and employees.

You will feel the thrill of owning a business and marvel just a few weeks later at what you have achieved
Impact the lives of millions of customers and of the professionals we partner with
Being a part of an international team of domain experts in all functions
Group Private Health Insurance
Yearly allowance for the client's product services
Yearly allowance for personal development courses
Workstation of your choice
A bespoke development plan that will allow you to utilise your potential and grow quickly
The pleasure of being part of a high-performance team that works hard but has plenty of fun in the process

Tooling Experience

AWS
Terraform
Apache Airflow 2.0
Gitlab

Grafana
PostgreSQL
Python

How to Apply