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

THE COMPANY
Star is a global consultancy that connects strategy, design, engineering and marketing services into a seamless workflow devised to support our clients every step of the way – no matter how long or complex their journey. We anchor everything we do in clear and compelling endgames, which in turn enable our strategists, designers and engineers to create useful, scalable products and solutions. We are 750 strategists, designers, engineers and marketers in 12 locations around the world, and we are here to make every great idea, every great person and every great company shine. That is why we’re called Star.


THE OPPORTUNITY 
We’re looking for an experienced engineer to jump right in and join our high-performance DevOps group. As a team member, you’ll experience software operations and development engineers working together across the entire service lifecycle - from design through the development process to product support. It’s a new way of working that builds on the recognition that there's one entity standing behind a successful product: the delivery team.

We care about simplicity and we believe the Agile Manifesto is a better way of doing software development. Our everyday practice involves virtualization, containerization, dealing with the Cloud, networking, configuration management systems, deployment automation and much, much more. Co-creation is what we're all about. 

Join us and get involved!


THE PERSON
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/Ruby, etc.)
Monitoring tools (Grafana, Cacti, Prometheus, etc.)
Log analytics (ELK stack, Sumologic, Splunk, etc.)
Experience with relational DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Cloud computing (AWS)
Understanding the containerization concepts (Docker ecosystem). Experience with container orchestration systems in AWS (AWS EKS/ECS)
Serverless computing (Fargate)
Excellent written communication and the ability to communicate verbally with the customer (English)
Bachelor's degree (or equivalent work experience)
DevOps skills
Configuration management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc.)
Virtualization experience (KVM/XEN, Vagrant etc.)
Cloud configuration, IaaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
Continuous Integration/Delivery (Jenkins, GitLab CI, BitBucket, TeamCity, etc.)
Bonus skills
Practice experience with second cloud platform (MS Azure Cloud, GCP)
NoSQL DB knowledge (Redis, Memcached, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.)
Understanding of Distributed Systems concepts, High Availability, vertical and horizontal scalability


COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Star offers a competitive and rewarding salary and benefits package as well as an intellectually and creatively stimulating work environment. You will find professional flexibility, new ways of working and unique international travel opportunities.