DevOps Engineer
What Will You Do?
- Infrastructure & Tooling: Design, build, and deploy robust development tools and scalable infrastructure to support the engineering lifecycle.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as a bridge between stakeholders and the engineering team, translating business requirements into technical specifications.
- Automation & Optimization: Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and optimize CI/CD pipelines for faster, more reliable releases.
- Quality Assurance: Review and test code authored by team members, providing detailed analysis and ensuring high-quality deployments.
- Security & Compliance: Proactively safeguard systems against cybersecurity threats and maintain a "security-first" approach to infrastructure.
- Incident Management: Troubleshoot complex technical issues, develop long-term "fixes," and manage software updates and patches.
- Process Governance: Partner with developers to ensure all software engineering follows established best practices and architectural standards.
- Microservices Integration: Lead the configuration and seamless integration of microservices within a containerized environment.
Qualifications
What You Need to Apply:
- Professional Experience: Minimum 3 years of experience in a DevOps Engineer role or a closely related Software Engineering position.
- Basic understanding of Frontend or Backend development; you understand the code as well as the infrastructure.
- Infrastructure & Automation: Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), version control (Git), and configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, or Ansible).
- Containerization: Proficient in Docker and Kubernetes within a Microservices architecture.
- Cloud Proficiency: Working knowledge of major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Data Management: Strong understanding of database technologies, with a preference for NoSQL environments (e.g., BigQuery, MongoDB, Redis).
- Methodology: Familiarity with Agile/Scrum frameworks and workflows.
Soft Skills & Mindset
- Analytical Thinker: Proficient in technical analysis and troubleshooting with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
- Operational Excellence: High attention to detail regarding technical processes and system reliability.
- Collaborative Spirit: A team player with a positive, customer-focused attitude and excellent communication skills.
- Growth Mindset: Naturally curious and eager to learn new technologies and improve existing processes.
- Language: Full professional proficiency in English (written and verbal).
We value candidates who have experience with, or an interest in:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Helm.
- Observability & Messaging: Grafana, ELK Stack, Kafka.
- Web Servers: NGINX, Apache, Tomcat.
- Legacy & Specialized Systems: Linux/Unix/AIX virtualization and ITIL V3 frameworks.
- Documentation: Experience creating clear technical documentation and UML diagrams.
Additional Information
Why us?
- Diverse projects: In each assignment there is always something new either on the technical or on the business side that helps you grow.
- Cutting edge technology: You will work with many of the most up-to-date technologies and tools.
- Strong and motivating team: We stress the importance of working together in tight-knit, cohesive teams in which members help each other to reach the common goal.
- Work-life balance: We help you to feel good individually as well, and coordinate work so it aligns with your leisure activities.
- Professional development: There are team gatherings on a regular schedule where colleagues can share their knowledge, and have deep technical discussions.
- Focus on company culture: In addition to our business and professional achievements we are proud of the social bonding in the company, which is based on mutual respect and helping one another.
- Personal mentoring: You will have your own mentor (just like everybody at Hiflylabs) who you can turn to with professional issues as well as with personal ones.