Software Engineer

The role is responsible for writing and maintaining automation scripts and related CI/CD tools. This is an operational role that may seek appropriate level of guidance and advice to ensure delivery of quality outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Be part of the central DevOps team, reporting to its lead
• Help the team to give guidelines and blueprint on DevOps lifecycle
• Proactively identify and solve issues in platforms together with the rest of the infrastructure and engineering teams.
• In consultation with Information Security, implement best practices and compliance.

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of working experience in the role
• Understand how a distributed application works, constraints and limitations
• Experience with with Linux servers and at least one public cloud
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Git
• Coding and scripting experience (python, shell/bash)
• Experience in creating/refactoring deployment pipelines (we use Jenkins and GitHub Actions)
• Experience in creating/refactoring Ansible scripts
• Fluent in English

Desired Skill sets:

• Experience with automation tooling, both infrastructure and configuration based: terraform/ansible/packer etc.
• Experience web servers and load balancing solutions: apache, haproxy, nginx
• Databases and stores: mysql/postgres/redis etc.
• Distributed services like brokers and queues (kafka, rabbitmq)
• Understanding Java code bases and basic knowledge of Maven
• Knowledge of WildFly Application Server
• Knowledge of application life-cycle maintenance

Things we care about:

We value attitude and your thinking process over the list of skills and tools in your belt

Automation everywhere it is reasonable

Infrastructure as code: configuration files, infrastructure deployments should be version controlled and driving automated deployments

Security: is part of the process, it's a journey and it's definitely an engineering problem

Well written documentation: if it's not documented it doesn't exist