Devops Tech Lead

About us

Riverside empowers media companies to record podcasts and video interviews remotely in studio-quality. Since launching, we have experienced rapid growth and are trusted by customers such as Spotify, NY Times, NBC, CNN and iHeartMedia.About the role

Joining Riverside means being part of a content revolution in which everyone is creating content from everywhere.

About the role

You will work in a high-velocity startup with a fun environment where products and ecosystems are still being defined and developed. giving you the chance to influence some of the core tools used and be a part of every stage of development from concept to deployment. You will need to be a self-starter, ready to dig in and own projects, collaborate cross-functionally, and deliver quality results.

As our very first DevOps to help us unify and automate the processes. The missions will be about building, testing, and maintaining the infrastructure and tools to allow for the high-speed development and release of the software.

What you'll be doing:

· Scaling our media processing and web services infrastructure to support extreme loads of data and traffic.

· Own deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, and uptime of all of our production AWS cloud environments.

· Infrastructure for video processing, continuous ML training and real-time prediction.

· Building, updating, and implementing CI/CD pipeline and DevOps automation processes, methodologies, and tools.

· Work closely with Engineering and Data teams, taking full responsibility and ownership from conception to post-deployment in a collaborative, fast-paced environment

· Stay on top of modern technologies with our infra stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Redis, MySQL

What you bring to the table

· At Least 5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer role preferably at a startup company

· Strong technical skills, good system and infrastructure understanding

· Proficient in working with the following stack: Docker,K8S,HELM

· Proficient in working with CI/CD tools: Jenkins,ArgoCD

· Proven experience writing and maintaining infrastructure as code (AWS CDK, Terraform)

· Experienced with monitoring and central logging technologies (Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix – advantage)

· Familiar with how modern web applications work and scale

· Networking, firewall rules management and application security knowledge

· Familiar with Linux environment, scripting and programming

· Ability to see the bigger picture and carry out system architecture planning

· Experienced with optimization of resources – advantage

· Experienced with SOC2 compliance – advantage

· Knowledge in any programming language (Python, Nodejs, Ruby) - advantage

· Independence, ownership, and a sense of urgency. A “Self-starter” with a startup mentality