Position: Engineer in DevOps / Software Reliability Engineer
Company: Forte Group
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**About**
The software product is the highly secure virtual data room that allows users across the globe to confidently publish highly important business information in real-time for due diligence and analytical purposes. 

The underlying software platform is a complex solution, highly loaded componentized software platform, maintained by multiple teams working concurrently in the US and East Europe that develop and test this product, regularly deploy new versions and support its operability in 24/7 mode.   

We practice Scrum and follow the Agile way of working, we’re focused and dedicated to delivering business value to our end users incrementally, predictably, and with high quality. 

Our advantages are a friendly team, an international environment, and direct collaboration with colleagues abroad.

**Job content**
We are looking for an **Engineer in DevOps**. It’s an amazing opportunity to join a team of skilled experts evolving cloud implementations of highly-loaded infrastructure, with Blue/Green pools, zero-downtime deployments, hosted in multiple geographical markets, both on-premise and cloud instances. You will build systems and tools that transform manual software deployment and health checks into machine-driven operations and remediation. You will join forces with software developers and QA engineers to design and implement our software and infrastructure to remain performant while securely storing and accessing, searching, and analyzing large amounts of data in Azure datacenters worldwide.

In this role you will have a great chance to enhance your English skills, working directly with colleagues abroad in a globally well-known business. Our highly-collaborative DevOps Team combines creativity, curiosity, and a drive to solve business problems and continuously get better at our craft.

We enjoy working with curious, persistent, logical, and clever people who like to learn and enjoy developing industry-standard solutions with high quality. If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join Forte Group. Scroll down to learn more about the position’s responsibilities and requirements. Apply today, become part of our Team, and help us reach new levels of automation and delivery.

**Responsibilities**
• Working by Agile methodology together with colleagues across continents, following Agile Scrum process with 2-week iterations and regular releases to production, in the environment where multiple teams commit to the same codebase;
• Work directly with colleagues in the US, by defining, deploying, supporting monitoring, and alerting solutions that collect performance and reliability metrics to be used to make sure the infrastructure complies with SLAs and non-functional requirements;
• Together with US Team, design and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines;
• Develop self-help mechanisms for internal teams via RESTful API/webhook-driven architectures;
• Drive cloud-adoption via delivery, monitoring, and policy enforcement of software-defined networking infrastructure;
• Increase efficiency and elasticity of deployed resources without sacrificing quality;
• Analyze and improve upon existing systems, services, and infrastructure

**The ideal candidate will have**
• Knowledge of Agile Scrum process;
**• 3 years DevOps experience with Microsoft technology stack;**
**• Experience in automatically provisioning, configuring, and scaling cloud environment (Azure is preferred);**
• Strong Git experience, including branching best practices;
• Expert knowledge of PowerShell and NuGet; 
**• Familiar with CI/CD tools; Azure DevOps preferred;**
• Understanding of software development and QA processes approaches to automated testing and deployment, ability to apply the knowledge into daily operation;
• Experience with monitoring tools (preferable Log Analytics or Zabbix);
• Experience with at least one of virtualization/cloud (RackSpace, IBM SoftLayer/Bluemix, Azure, AWS);
• Proven experience delivering solutions for complex problems;
• Time management, communication skills

**Nice to have**
• Azure DevOps/VSTS, Octopus, or Spinnaker experience;
• Software development experience; 
• Terraform and ARM Template experience;
• Experience with software testing (Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance Testing);
• Experience with Monitoring and log aggregation technologies, such as Elasticsearch (ELK stack), DataDog, Application Insights, etc.;
• NoSQL (CosmosDB, Redis) data store experience;
• Understanding of networking, security, applications, and/or protocol design is desired

**We offer**
• Experience working with colleagues locally and abroad;
• Opportunities for self-realization;
• Friendly team and enjoyable working environment;
• Professional and corporate events;
• Social package: professional & soft skills trainings, medical & family care programs, sports;
• English classes in the office with a dedicated teacher