Position: Senior DevOps Engineer for a Silicon Valley Startup
Company: X1 Group
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

PROJECT

The product will ensure the maximization of internal data usage while minimizing the risk of an insider breach by finding, flagging, and rewriting unsafe queries executed by employees and contractors in data warehouses and data lakes.

Find out more from the founders directly, watching their product introduction at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkdTv_5Zjcc

REQUIREMENTS
— Technical experience working in IT with a strong understanding of IT infrastructure fundamentals; compute infrastructure, storage, networking and management thereof;
— At least one certification on AWS, e.g. CertifiedSolutions Architect. Additional experience with GCP is a strong plus. Solid understanding of cloud technologies including fundamental characteristics of cloud, cloud-native design fundamentals, best practices, such as the AWSWell Architected Framework;
— A strong understanding of security concerns around cloud and a willingness to develop infrastructure solutions, which are secure by design;
— Strong interest in building cloud infrastructure, some experience in doing so allied to a strong desire to develop cloud skills further, including certifications;
— Strong OS knowledge including recent Linux experience;
— Some scripting experience with any modern scripting language (Terraform preferred) with a strong desire to develop further;
— Understanding of using any of the above technologies to automate tasks allied to a strong desire to build on your existing skills;
— Familiarity with IT support processes and a commitment to produce supportable designs and builds;
— Familiarity with DevOps practices & culture, CI/CDpipelines

AS A PLUS
— Multiple AWS, Azure or GCP certifications;
— Experience of development pipeline technologies such as Bitbucket or competitors thereof;
— Experience of automating infrastructure deployment; using any of CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Salt, Chef or Puppet;
— Particular Windows / Microsoft ecosystem experience; Azure, Powershell, experience using any of Microsoft’s OS deployment management toolset

BENEFITS
— Build the product from scratch in direct collaboration with the founding and C-level team from California
— As an early team member, your work will have a lot of impacts and you’ll help shape the culture of the company
— Work remotely from any location
— Health insurance with premium-level clinics
— Unlimited vacations
— Last but not least — fair compensation for your efforts

RESPONSIBILITIES
— Build out Dasera’s SaaS infrastructure on AWS using tools such as Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, RDS, EC2, etc;
— Build with the end-user in mind and get involved in all aspects of development and operations;
— Actively seek out opportunities to automate toil and pro-actively improve the reliability and performance of our cloud solutions;
— Maintain knowledge of best practices and seek outopportunities to apply new best practices; to existing design patterns;
— Help design and maintain system test infrastructure;
— Design and maintain a CI/CD process;
— Monitor and minimize cloud infrastructure costs