Position: Senior DevOps Engineer for Cloud Accounting Software
Company: Brightgrove
Experience required: 3y
Category: DevOps
English level: upper
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

**ABOUT THE CLIENT**
It turns out… unicorns are real! In fact, our Customer just became one after raising their valuation to more than $1 billion. And ever since launching in 2003, they’ve been on a steady incline towards one goal: Building easy-to-use accounting software for small business owners. It’s the goal that’s driven us to expand into five offices, serving customers in over 160 countries. And it’s the goal we’d love for you to be a part of as a member of our global team as we continue our journey.

Known for extraordinary product and customer service experiences and based in Toronto, Canada, they serve to pay customers in over 120 countries, with offices in the U.S., Netherlands, Mexico, Germany, and Croatia.

**PROJECT DETAILS**
The Infrastructure team is looking for talented & experienced engineers to help us build and support our cloud-native infrastructure. Join our growing organization and you will get a chance to be in the driving seat of innovation and change for our Client.

**YOUR TEAM**
You’ll be joining a team of mixed background technologists. Our mandate is to provide secure, flexible, and stable platform solutions that empower our feature development teams to create the highest quality services for our customers.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Develop, deploy and operate cloud-native infrastructure in support of product’s SaaS platform
- Develop & Improve instrumentation for monitoring and logging the health and availability of services
- Bring a mindset of standards and best practices to help create observability solutions that the team want to adopt
- Help engineering teams implement and maintain observability and monitoring frameworks Help raise the bar on our incident response management process and participate in periodic on-call rotation
- Take a data-driven approach to operations – you will drive a culture of automation, both within the team and throughout the organization, to scale the product efficiently and reliably
- Create cutting-edge cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure-as-Code and automation
- Build and improve cloud infrastructure self-service tooling that powers our internal platform used by hundreds of developers
- Lead and participate in technical discussions to aid system design, analysis, and troubleshooting
- Help engineering teams to develop, test, debug and release scalable, resilient, and high available cloud-native applications quickly

**SKILLS**
-You have a deep understanding of Cloud computing concepts and solutions. Bonus points for direct experience in GCP (Google Cloud Platform), but any public cloud experience is suitable
-You have a good understanding of Cloud Security, specifically IAM Roles & Policies, Security Groups, and Encryption keys
-You have hands-on experience with container technologies: Docker runtime and possibly with Kubernetes orchestration
-You have experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Cloud Deployment Manager, Ansible, or Chef
-You have exposure or familiarity with Linux Operating system administration and a good understanding of Linux fundamentals like signals, scheduling, filesystems
-You have strong TCP/IP networking knowledge in either cloud or on-prem deployments: DNS, network, routing, L3/L7 protocols, etc.
-Intimate understanding of one or more monitoring and observability tools such as; Splunk, Elastic, Jaeger, Honeycomb, Grafana, DataDog, Prometheus, BigPanda, Sensu
-Hands-on experience implementing and delivering monitoring solutions in development, QA, and production environments
-You understand and foster DevOps culture across an organization
-Very strong problem solving & troubleshooting skills, including the ability to perform root cause analysis and preventative analysis