Position: Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: Qubit Labs
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Our client's company, is the biggest marketplace for experiences in the travel industry. They have more than 300,000 bookable products in almost every country on the planet, and are helping millions of travellers every month to discover things to do.


We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with experience working with high volume transactional websites to join their team. This role operates in a fast moving environment with a product and platforms that are growing and changing rapidly. You will be experienced in bootstrapping infrastructure from scratch - creating performant, autoscaling and self-healing systems. The ideal candidate will have solid background in Linux and TCP/IP network fundamentals, have automation at heart and be comfortable with coding in higher level languages like bash and python.

The engineering team is based in Oxford United Kingdom, Lisbon Portugal, and Sydney Australia, backed by a global ops team dedicated to the wider engineering team. 

What you will do 

Manage high volume transactional workloads in AWS and self-hosted on-premise
Promote the DevOps culture across our organisation
Collaborate with engineering teams on projects and to improve the operational readiness of product features
Develop, maintain, and support flexible solutions that require little to no maintenance
Identify opportunities for CI/CD improvements to automate time-intensive or repetitive tasks
Together with the team, share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents

What we are looking for 

Previously 5 years+ in a DevOps Engineer role
Strong verbal and written communication
Ability to work in a complex environment, to handle dependencies, and communicate across teams
Operating and supporting multi layered web application architecture and infrastructure
Configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, NoSQL data stores, storage systems and messaging systems
Observability and monitoring with APM, traces, logging, metrics, visualisations and alerting
Ideal skills & Experience 
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Linux and TCP/IP network fundamentals
AWS
Kubernetes and containerisation
Infrastructure as Code
Version control and CI/CD
Scripting and configuration files
Security skills
Customer-centric mindset
Passion for systems engineering and technology at scale
Desire to learn about new platforms and technologies, and to continuously improve
A love of travel

What you will get

Highly competitive salary along with the following:
Annual performance related bonus
Generous stock (RSU) award upon joining, with additional awards annually
Regular salary reviews and excellent career growth opportunities
Very flexible working hours
Free meals in the office
Full family private healthcare and dental
Excellent contributory pension
Critical illness and full life cover
Standard 25 days paid holiday (not including bank holidays), increasing with tenure
Annual stipend for costs outside the office such as gym membership or home office set up
“Summer Fridays” scheme allowing extra days off during the summer
Application process:
calls with a recruiters to learn more about the role
45 minute technical interview with someone from the Viator Engineering team
Three one-hour interviews with members of the team, covering technical topics - including some coding