Position: DevOps Engineer, AWS
Company: Star
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**The Client**

Our client is a leading communications & publishing company with 50 years of history, working on digital products and solutions for automotive OEMs and vehicle owners worldwide. As a global leader in information solutions, the company is focused on creating innovative communications that best address the information needs of the automotive industry. Through processes that seamlessly integrate information development, management and delivery, they produce high-quality, value-driven print, mobile and interactive communications for vehicle owners and automotive sales and service personnel.

**The Opportunity**

You will join a distributed team that is building a set of products that simplify digital content creation and distribution across the globe for multiple Automotive OEM clients. You’ll get to influence infrastructure decisions, practice US-based client communication on a daily basis and will enjoy an inspiring development process heavily powered by DevOps, engineering practices and a feature-ownership approach. The DevOps team has ambitious goals for this year, meaning the re-implementation of the infrastructure, automation of processes and building a solid CI/CD process.

**Essential skills:**

- Strong Linux/Unix administration skills;
- Software lifecycle management experience;
- Networking fundamentals (switching, routing, load balancing);
Versioning (Git, SVN, etc.);
- Scripting/programming skills (Bash, Python, etc.);
- Experience with relational DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL);
- Excellent written communication, the ability to communicate verbally with the customer (English);
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience).

**DevOps skills:**

- Configuration management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.);
- Cloud/virtualization experience (AWS, Docker ecosystem, etc.);
- Continuous Integration/Delivery (Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc.);
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.);
- Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudwatch);
- Log analytics (ELK or EFK stack, etc.).

**Bonus skills:**

- Kubernetes hands-on experience (AWS EKS);
- Terragrunt experience;
- Hashicorp Consul and Vault hands-on experience;
- Understanding of containerization concepts, scheduling and orchestration systems;
- Understanding of Distributed Systems concepts, High Availability, vertical and horizontal scalability.

**Compensations and Benefits**

We offer a rewarding compensation and benefits package, intellectually and creatively stimulating environment, professional flexibility and unique international travel opportunities.

Star is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are key to our ability to provide our clients and crew members with unique business and career outcomes. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability have no effect on our hiring decisions. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.