Position: Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: Talent500
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**About Us**
GETTR is one of the fastest growing social media platform founded on the
principles of free speech, independent thought and rejecting political
censorship and “cancel culture.” With best-in-class technology, our goal is to
create a marketplace of ideas to share freedom and democracy around the
world. We foster a healthy marketplace of ideas, where smart, motivated,
curious people bring a diversity of opinions and the courage of their convictions for idea collaboration.

**Challenges you will solve:**
• Participate in all stages of infrastructure provisioning, from POC to
production support.
• Assist in implementation of security best practices and initiatives at all
levels of the systems infrastructure.
• Adhere with DevOps & SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) principles/pillars.
• Align with SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and business values.
• Ensure maximum availability and reliability of our mission critical
platforms, complying with our SLA and SLO.
Apply the latest OS and security patches ensuring the compatibility of
underlying running application.
• Participate in the disaster recovery/business continuity (DRBC) routine
exercises.
• Handle help desk & JIRA tickets and mitigate any production issues.
• Ensure accurate knowledge base documentation in a timely manner.

**About You:**
• Strong knowledge of secure web app deployments in AWS (3+ years).
• Extensive experience as a Linux administrator, particularly CentOS 7.x &
AWS Linux 2.
• Having the DevOps mindset of continuous improvement for operational
excellency.
• The ability to work with little supervision; must be self-driven and
motivated.
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) —
Jenkins and Git.
• Experience with containerized microservices delivered with Docker,
Kubernetes (Kops, AWS EKS), and OpenShift 4.x.
• Manage & optimize unified logging system and APM (Application
Performance Management) monitoring tools, constantly reduce the
MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery).
• Strong scripting skills using Shell and Python or Go (a plus).
• Work collaboratively with DevOps engineers, DevOps architects and SREs.
• Experience in working collaboratively with various applications
development teams throughout the organization to resolve problems.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills necessary to produce and
process technical documents.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills and the ability to translate
business requirements into information systems solutions.
• Experience with IT security.
• Someone who is a team player.
• Professional IT certifications, such as Red Hat Certified Engineer, and
AWS certifications (a huge plus).
• Relevant work experience (9+ years), either in software development or
systems engineering, IT infrastructure.
• Master’s degree in technology related, engineering or computer science
(a plus).
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.
• Provide mission critical production support in case of an outage during
off business hours if necessary.