DevOps Engineer

ASTERRA is a successful Earth observation company specializing in SAR analytics and innovative technological solutions. ASTERRA's SaaS platform provides satellite-based infrastructure intelligence to a wide range of industries. Through AI technology and geospatial expertise, ASTERRA delivers advanced monitoring solutions that empower organizations to make informed decisions and drive positive impact.

ASTERRA‘s R&D department is actively seeking a resourceful, highly motivated and independent engineer, to join our team. The chosen candidate will have the exciting opportunity to contribute to ASTERRA's technological advancement and work with a diverse range of tools and environments. Furthermore, you will be part of our software development team and report to the software team leader.

Responsibilities

• Manage, operate & automate cloud infrastructures and services.
• Deploy the company’s cloud-based solutions, updates, and fixes, providing technical support.
• Oversee our software development platforms, streamline, innovate our build and CI/CD operations and optimize the costs of our cloud infrastructure and services.
• Take full lifecycle responsibility for Build and Release Engineering pipelines, covering data processing, software build, model training, testing, deployment, and inference.
• Manage the entire lifecycle of modular, reusable, scalable environments for software development, software build, model training, testing and production.
• Handle & optimize cyber-security for cloud services.
• Collaboratively solve complex problems in each of the environments.
• Work closely with our deep learning developers, algorithm developers and software developers.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of 1 year as a DevOps engineer.
• Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker & Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience scripting in Python and Linux shell.
• Practical experience using web-hooks and RESTful APIs.
• Strong proven experience with AWS (IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, EC2, RDS, cost optimization etc.).
• Experience with Configuration Management using Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools, such as TerraForm.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in GitHub administration & workflows.
• AWS certification.
• DBA experience including PostgreSQL experience.
• Experience with Airflow
• Experience with MLOps frameworks such as Dask or Ray.
• Familiarity with geographical imagery and GIS data including geospatial DB’s.

Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal skills, flexibility, and a proactive “Can Do” attitude aligned with a startup mentality.
• Independent thinker and problem solver.
• Strong teamwork abilities and communication skills, facilitating effective collaboration within the software team.