Position: Associate Architect/Architect DevOps
Company: ZiMAD
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

What You Will Do


● Get involved in the architecture planning, implementation, and maintenance of server
clusters, API, and microservices, including critical production environments in hybrid cloud
● Collaborate with the product team to explore the technical scope of the needs of customers
● Use proven architecture design and best practices to make sure that the applications remain
always-available, offer sustained high performance and are scalable on demand
● Monitor incidents/problems trends to identify areas of deficiency and recommend
improvements to prevent future occurrences
● Bridge the gap between business/user problems and technology solutions/possibilities
● Brief the teams and stakeholders on the structure, characteristics, behavior, and related
aspects of the solutions
● Create and publish Architecture and Application Availability Metrics (through general and
team-specific dashboards)
● Research emerging technologies and propose changes to the existing architecture to ensure
compatibility with proven technologies.
● Lay out execution plans with proper control over the solution development process &
environment
● Collaborate with development teams to optimize architecture performance, rightsize
environments, provide constructive feedback/coaching, and review code


What You Need to Have


● Proven expertise in managing large-scale deployments of traffic-intensive applications
● Experience in automating cloud system monitoring and operations through scripting
● Hands-on experience in administering high availability and high-performance environments
● In-depth knowledge and 5+ years of hands-on experience with Linux
● Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical field
Excellent understanding of Scalability processes and techniques
● Expert knowledge of at least one Infrastructure-as-Code / Configuration-as-Code technology
(such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt)
● Good understanding of platform and systems’ architecture – modular monoliths and
microservices. Operational knowledge of enabling tools such as Kubernetes and Dockers is a plus point.
● Working knowledge of modern DevOps processes including monitoring, log aggregation,
alerting, service discovery.
● System troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains. You
will be expected to participate in on-call escalations to troubleshoot issues
● Operational understanding of Agile methods
● Strong self-motivation (this is a must); excellent work ethics, dependable and responsible
● Must be a flexible self-starter who can quickly accommodate new requirements, scopechanges quickly and can adapt to a growing and evolving team
● Critical Thinker; with good logical and creative problem-solving skills, excellent oral and
written communication skills