Embedded DevOps engineer

About this Role

Writer is seeking a founding Embedded DevOps engineer to join our dynamic team. This role involves leading the design implementation and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure ensuring high availability performance and security. You will collaborate closely with development teams to optimize cloud resources and enhance system reliability while also contributing to the development and maintenance of our cloud automation and monitoring systems.

If youre passionate about using DevOps to transform the enterprise then we want to hear from you.

Your Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud infrastructure: Lead the design implementation and maintenance of Writers cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance.

• Scalable cloud automation: Design and implement scalable cloud automation to support seamless deployment for our largest enterprise customers.

• Automate infrastructure: Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform and Python.

• Optimize cloud resources: Collaborate with development teams to optimize cloud resources and enhance system reliability.

• Monitoring and alerting: Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve issues affecting the reliability of our writing solutions.

• Postmortem analyses: Conduct postmortem analyses of system failures to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.

• Security and compliance: Ensure the security and compliance of our systems adhering to industry standards and regulations.

• Business continuity: Develop and maintain business continuity plans to ensure system resilience.

• Troubleshooting and performance tuning: Utilize strong troubleshooting skills log analysis and performance tuning to maintain system health.

• Technical documentation: Create technical documentation and train new engineers.

• Stay current: Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve our DevOps practices.

• Collaborate effectively: Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with crossfunctional teams and stakeholders.

• Proactive problemsolving: Proactive approach to identifying and mitigating potential system failures and performance bottlenecks.

Is This You

• Proven expertise: 8 years of experience in software and DevOps engineering.

• Cloud platform experience: 3 years of professional experience working with developing and maintaining software for cloud platforms.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with IaC tools and DevOps practices.

• Security and compliance: Knowledge of data loss prevention cybersecurity privacy and compliance frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

• Containerization and orchestration: Expertise in containerization technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) and orchestration tools like ArgoCD and Helm.

• CI/CD pipelines: Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools like Git GitHub Actions Jira and Confluence.

• Programming languages: Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python Bash Java Go and Scala.

• Distributed systems: Welldeveloped understanding of distributed systems cloud computing and containerization technologies.

• Troubleshooting and debugging: Excellent problemsolving and debugging skills.

• Willingness to take on challenges: Willingness to take on challenging projects and work under pressure.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Multiple cloud platforms: Experience with multiple cloud platforms (Google Cloud AWS and Azure).

• Database management: Familiarity with databases like Postgres BigTable and BigQuery.

• SaaS/ enterprise SaaS: Experience in SaaS or Enterprise SaaS environments.

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