Position: DevOps Engineer (Azure)
Company: Star
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

Our client is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of eyeglass lenses and ophthalmologic instruments. The business group develops and produces offerings for the entire eyeglass value chain that is distributed globally.

We are working on a web solution that delivers an innovative telemedicine system that enables the stores without optical doctor services to provide remote refraction exams to their customers.

The Opportunity
You’ll join a distributed team, building an innovative solution that integrates with optical medical devices, for one of the leaders in the industry. DevOps brings a fundamental change in collaboration – the recognition of the fact that there’s one entity standing behind a successful product: The delivery team. 

We care about simplicity. We believe in the Agile Manifesto, which is about finding better ways of software development. Our everyday practice involves virtualization, containerization, dealing with the Cloud, networking, configuring management systems, deploying automation and much, much more. “Co-creation” is an appropriate term to describe what we’re all about. Join us and get involved!

You
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, Nagios, Cacti, etc.);
- Experience with relational DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.);
- Excellent written communication and the ability to communicate verbally with the customer (English);
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience).

DevOps skills (at least two of the following):
- Configuration management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc.);
- Cloud/virtualization experience (Azure, AWS, Docker ecosystem, KVM/XEN, Vagrant etc.);
- Cloud orchestration (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.);
- Continuous Integration/Delivery (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bamboo, TeamCity, etc.).

Bonus skills:
- Practice experience with MS Azure Cloud;
- NoSQL DB knowledge (Redis, Memcached, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.);
- Understanding of containerization concepts, scheduling and orchestration systems;
- Understanding of Distributed Systems concepts, High Availability, vertical and horizontal scalability;
- Log analytics (ELK stack, Sumologic, Splunk, etc.).