DevOps Engineer (freelance)

Realcommerce is looking for a promising and brilliant DevOps cloud engineer contractor for joining our devops group.

If you have the skills to work independently within a cutting edge DevOps team, respond to multiple requests in a dynamic and intensive work environment - come and join us to make the world a safer place!

*Commitment for 6 months*

Major Responsibilities

• Act as a DevOps Engineer, be part of a highly skillful team, responsible for large scale operation from development to production activity
• Design, develop, and maintain Avanan's CI/CD solution (including OS, container, cloud orchestration and end-to-end automation)
• Implement tools and procedures for monitoring, deployment, and alerting for our SaaS multi-tenant product family.
• Be part of a large scale transition of a highly complex system into a highly secured environment subject to strict regulation.
• Continuously improve our cloud infrastructure; making it fault-tolerant and easy to deploy, scale, and secure.
• Plan capacity, stabilize, and improve the performance of the application infrastructure with cost and scale in mind.
• Form and shape our monitoring and logging solution array.
• Do all the above with top-notch cloud infrastructure security in mind.

Desired Background

• Hands-on – we all write code on a daily basis!
• 3+ years of relevant DevOps experience building CI/CD pipelines for development teams and production pipelines - a must
• 3+ years AWS Cloud experience for high traffic systems and multiple services (EC2, S3, ECR, ELK, Auorora, RDS, ES, Route53) - a must
• Solid scripting skills (Python fluent) - a must
• Experience with containers and orchestration tools (Docker & Kubernetes or ECS) - a must
• Experience with CI integration tools like Jenkins
• Experience with AWS CloudFormation – an advantage
• Experience with a wide variety of open-source technologies like Kafka, Redis, Nagios etc.
• Knowledge of best practices relating to security, performance, monitoring.
• Experience with server configuration automation (Ansible)
• Proven ability to research new technologies and tools, critically evaluating them through proof of concepts and cost analysis