DevOps Engineer (DBA, System engineer)

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About the Team

About the Role

Join our dynamic team as a DevOps Engineer and play a crucial role in building and operating resilient and scalable infrastructure using ground breaking technologies like Chef Ansible and Public cloud. This is a great opportunity to chip into critical applications where high availability and scalability are paramount. If you are passionate about testing distributed database systems concurrency distributed storage availability and system design we encourage you to apply.

About You

You possess a expertise in deploying and operating databases or distributed systems ideally using tools such as Chef or Ansible. You like to mentor junior developers in team and a strong team player.

What Youll Do:

• Build and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure to support critical applications.

• Contribute to the development and operation of restful services service oriented architectures distributed systems cloud systems and microservices on Linux operating systems or equivalent.

• Apply your experience with configuration management tools (Chef Ansible or Puppet) containerisation (Docker) to deploy and manage applications.

• Collaborate effectively within a team to achieve common goals demonstrating strong communication skills and attention to detail.

• Participate in the design maintenance and improvement of highly available and fault-tolerant distributed software systems.

• Contribute to and promote a strong testing culture including unit system and integration testing feature toggles canary deployments and gradual rollouts.

• Engage with logging monitoring metrics and statistics technologies to ensure system health and performance.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide support and triage for production services after a training period.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or higher in a computer-related field.

• Proficient to Linux operating systems and concepts including memory and storage management threading and concurrency networking and sockets and process management.

• Expert in at least one scripting language such as Python Ruby or Bash.

Other Qualifications (Desirable):

• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with teammates.

• Expert in areas related to performance and scale security availability deployment and operations.

• A strong understanding of testing methodologies and quality assurance practices.

• Experience being part of a team responsible for a service in production including on-call support and incident management.

If you are a motivated DevOps Engineer with a passion for building resilient and scalable systems and you are excited about working with distributed database systems in a dynamic microservices environment we encourage you to apply!

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