Position: Infrastructure Team Lead
Company: StarOfService
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

We are hiring an Infrastructure Team Lead

Our Infrastructure team is looking for a strong Infrastructure engineer willing to take a Team Leader role. We are willing to consider candidates with no management experience if they possess strong technical and communication skills.

This will be a full-time long term remote contract
A good level of English is important and required to work in our multicultural team

Qualifications and Expertise:

- Linux
- AWS and cloud architecture patterns
- Kubernetes
- Programming
- At least 3 DBs from the list: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongodb, Redis, 
- ElasticSearch
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Monitoring systems

Bonus points:

- Golang
- Development of Kubernetes extensions (controllers and operators)
- Prometheus
- Development of Grafana dashboards
- Any Configuration Management platform (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack). Chef is preferred
- Jenkins, Jenkins pipelines

Besides technical knowledge, it's also important to have:
- Strong communication skills
- You’re able to explain your point briefly and clearly even for those who don't know the context
- You always ask questions and look for solutions
- Open mindedness
- You’re open to adopting new approaches and learning new methodologies
- You're used to looking at situations from different angles
- Problem-solving skills
- You’re ready to dig as deep as needed to understand the root cause of a problem from both technical and management perspectives. For instance, when you have an issue with an open-source project, you’re comfortable checking the code of the tool to understand the reasons

What's in it for you:

- At StarOfService we strive to recruit the best professionals and are constantly working on improving work conditions to ensure our employee well-being, have them enjoy their time with us and deliver effectively.
- Paid vacations and sick leaves
- Upon joining us, you will get 25 days of paid vacation per year, and up to 10 paid sick leaves.
- Probation period validation bonus
- After 3 months of tenure, you will receive a $1000 bonus as a recognition of successful completion of your probation period.

Education and growth: 

We know that shipment value is not enough and to ensure constant development we facilitate growth opportunities by:
- Setting yearly Personal Development Plans with every employee,
Allocating a budget for courses and learning to ensure employee professional growth.

Our Selection Process is as follows

- Interview with our Talent Acquisition Manager,
- Technical screen with our Infrastructure Lead,
- Final call with StarOfService CTO/CPO.

More about StarOfService

StarOfService has been funded by famous VCs (Point Nine Capital, Kima Ventures, etc.) from all around the world. The company is also part of TheFamily, the biggest European Start-Up network.

We also have world class advisors, among which are:
- Frédéric Mazzella, founder of BlaBlaCar,
- Oleg Tscheltzoff, former CEO of Fotolia.

Below are examples of what the press is saying about StarOfService:
- Article at VentureBeat,
- Article at Forbes.