As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Salus, you are a skilled professional with a good understanding of software engineering principles and a proven ability to produce, identify, and explain high-quality, cloud-native infrastructure. You obsess about automation, and have extensive experience implementing infrastructure-as-code solutions. You have an in-depth understanding of Kubernetes, and proven experience running secure, scalable cloud-native architectures based on Kubernetes.
Focus
Team-Centric: You act as part of a larger team, working as a unit. You support your team in planning, and execution. You constantly have the team's objectives in mind, and strive to improve not only your own skills, but that of the team.
Infrastructure Quality and Development: You are deeply involved in the development process, executing the product's vision, while ensuring that the infrastructure, at the code it is based on, meets high standards for style, maintainability, and best practices. You actively participate in code reviews and contribute to the technical direction of their team.
Problem Solving: You are adept at identifying and solving technical challenges within your team's scope.
Collaboration: You actively seek out opportunities to collaborate, not only with other engineers, but with the company as a whole. You work well with others, irrespective of their job role, or culture.
What you will be doing
Technical Mastery:
Demonstrate excellence in producing high-quality infrastructure and infrastructure code, applying theoretical knowledge, cloud-native approaches, and industry standards. You obsess over automation, and have extensive experience in writing infrastructure-as-code, CICD pipelines, all anchored in Kubernetes.
Autonomous Execution:
You work independently with minimal oversight, delivering impactful results and contributing to the team's success.
Problem Solving and Solutions:
Identify and address subtle but impactful problems, creating effective and innovative solutions.
Advocate for standardization and lead efforts for continuous technical improvements.
Knowledge Sharing and Documentation:
Document and promote best practices, tooling, and knowledge sharing within the team.
Mentor and train teammates to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Collaboration and Product Excellence:
Collaborate closely with Product Management and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features and improvements to the Salus platform.
Advocate for and contribute to product quality, security, and performance enhancements.
Coding Standards and Code Review:
Uphold internal coding standards for style, maintainability, and best practices in a high-scale web environment.
Conduct and participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback, and maintaining coding standards.
Efficiency and Technical Debt Management:
Identify areas for improvement, and advocate for management of technical debt. Understand the need for both fulfulling the user's needs, but also ensure the stability, security and maintainability of the platform.
What you must have
At least five (5) years of experience in site reliability engineering
Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure experience is a must.
Experience with Terraform, or an equivalent such as Pelumi, or Crossplane.
Extensive experience in Kubernetes. Designing, deploying and operating secure, scalable, and performant Kubernetes based infrastructure.
Extensive experience supporting service oriented architectures, in an event-driven fashion.
Experience in designing, deploying and operating secure, reliable, and performant Kubernetes based infrastructure. A deep understanding of Kubernetes is required for this role.
Experience in building modern CICD pipelines using toolsets such as Gitlab, Github, Tekton, Jenkins X.