Kodo - Senior DevOps Engineer - CI/CD Pipeline

What You'll Be Doing

• Platform Reliability & Performance : Ensure our applications and environments are consistently stable, scalable, secure, and performing optimally.
• Collaborative Solutions : Proactively engage with cross-functional teams to understand their requirements, contributing to and delivering suitable supporting solutions.
• Infrastructure Growth & Automation : Develop and implement systems that facilitate rapid growth, including deployment policies, new procedures, configuration management, and planning for patches and capacity upgrades.
• Observability & Monitoring : Establish and maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to keep engineers continuously aware of potential issues.
• Incident Management & Automation : Create robust runbooks and procedures to minimize outages.
• Act quickly to resolve issues before users are impacted, then automate solutions to prevent future occurrences in production.
• Reliability & Security Engineering : Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks, ensuring our systems are prepared for peak loads, DDoS attacks, and operational mishaps.
• Full-Stack Troubleshooting : Efficiently troubleshoot issues across the entire stack, including software, applications, and network components.
• Project & Team Contribution : Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as an active member of a self-organizing team.
• Continuous Learning : Continuously learn and unlearn by exchanging knowledge, conducting constructive code reviews, and actively participating in retrospectives.
  

What You Must Have

• 5+ years of extensive experience in Linux server administration, including patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
• 5+ years of experience implementing highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healing systems on the Azure cloud platform.
• Strong understanding of networking, especially in cloud environments, along with a deep understanding of CI/CD principles and practices.
• Proven experience implementing industry-standard security best practices, including those recommended by Azure.
• Proficiency with Bash and at least one high-level scripting language (e. Python, Ruby, Go).
• Solid working knowledge of observability stacks like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Signoz, etc.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code and Infrastructure Testing, preferably using Pulumi or Terraform.
• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex technical problems and projects clearly to all stakeholders.
  

Extra Credit For

• Experience with Pulumi with TypeScript or Golang.
• Familiarity with Node.js.
• Experience with Serverless infrastructure.
• In-depth Azure cloud certifications or advanced experience.
• Experience with governance processes and compliance validation, especially for financial services standards such as ISO 27001, SOC2, PCI DSS, etc.
• Prior experience working in product startups.
• Experience in administering and scaling PostgreSQL databases