Position: DevOps Engineer with GCP or AWS Experience, Music Streaming Technologies
Company: DataArt
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate

About the vacancy

Our client is a pioneer in digital music and a leading provider of music streaming technologies and services for businesses, including some of the world's most recognized and respected consumer services companies. The platform operates their platform in 35 countries with a premium subscription service giving millions of subscribers unlimited ad-free access to the music they love anywhere, anytime, and on any device – online or offline. The idea is to combine the iconic history of one of the most recognizable music brands in the world with their vast experience and technological platform and the industry's first subscription streaming service provider.

We continue to innovate, the platform has just entered into an exciting partnership with a music distribution company, the only licensed Virtual Reality music platform, to create a more immersive and connective experience, harnessing the power of virtual reality. We are entering a new chapter and looking to build on both companies' experience in the digital music & entertainment sector, creating a differentiated product offering that will appeal to true music fans.

We are looking to hire an experienced DevOps Engineer as a critical contributor for a new cloud-based journey. This is an opportunity to help a long-established business undertake a digital transformation, moving all their infrastructure to Google Cloud using industry best practices, as well as helping to train and onboard the existing infrastructure team in modern-day best practices and cloud infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is someone well-versed in modern cloud practices, familiar with immutable infrastructure, infrastructure as code and has experience with high traffic infrastructure, optimally in the web or streaming domain.

Familiarity with deploying/debugging web applications is a plus, as you may be asked to contribute to work on in-house tools to facilitate operational functions, monitoring, and reporting capabilities. We are also looking for someone with a solid Linux systems engineering/administration background, as you will act in a supporting role for our engineering team.

Must have
- 2+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure, primarily Linux-based
- Extensive knowledge of cloud platforms and norms, experience in GCP or AWS environments preferred extensive experience building and managing critical infrastructure with best practices
- Experience with Terraform and/or any code-based infrastructure management/configuration management systems
- General knowledge of infrastructure/application testing, deployment patterns, and CI/CD pipeline norms
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing systems, with the preferred mindset for system design based on out-of-the-box visibility
- Ready to jump into debugging incidents all across the stack, from the application layer to OS and networking
- Experience with VMware a plus; although our plan is to migrate to cloud-native whenever possible, there may be some workloads that get migrated to a VMware cloud-based environment
- in the interim
- General understanding of data center operations, experience with virtualization, containers, and clustering in Linux-based environments

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