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

WHO WE NEED
We are looking for an experienced **DevOps Engineer** who will be helping our team with setting up and maintaining the project build pipeline and server environment for an outstanding **SaaS platform aimed to improve energy production efficiency of residential and commercial solar energy panels**. The platform is based on a robust, scalable and highly integrated solution that supports delivery of extensive volume of measured IoT data and high volume of transactions.

**The position is for a part-time involvement.**

In this role, you will need to review **the existing infrastructure based on K8s, Docker, Kafka, and MongoDB**, suggest and implement improvements, and continue being a part of a core team and responsible for key technical decisions, end-to-end software engineering operations. You will be required to see the project from conception to final products, and work closely with other team members to integrate your solution in a scalable platform.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Review the existing server infrastructure to figure out possible bottle necks and potential performance and security issues
- Suggest and discuss a proposal for improvements (incl. migration to a public cloud) with the engineering team and client
- Evaluate pros and contras, incl. cost, for migrating the infrastructure to a public cloud, e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, BlueOcean, etc.
- Implement approved improvements step by step
- If necessary, migrate the pipeline and server infrastructure to the public cloud
- Maintain the new infrastructure (3-6 hours per week)
- Be an agent of positive changes for technical evolution of the sustainability product with significant positive impact for the human environment

MUST HAVE
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences or similar education
- **3+ years commercial experience in DevOps domain**
- Strong experience with **Kubernetes, Docker, and IaaS**
- Good knowledge of** Kafka, MongoDB, Clusterization**
- Profound knowledge of server-side security and reliability
- Multi-tasking, attention to detail, and ability to contribute to complex projects
- Good organizational and problem-solving skills, ability to handle uncertainty
- Excellent **verbal and written communication skills in English**

CLIENT AND DOMAIN
- Client: a software product company
- Country: Germany
- Domain: Energy Management. Solar Energy