Position: DevOps Engineer
Company: Woxlab
Experience required: 2y
Category: DevOps
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Untapped Global (https://untapped-global.com/)

**About the role**

As we scale up, we are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to work with software developers and the broader technology team to oversee code releases. You will combine an understanding of both engineering and coding. You understand the software development lifecycle and have a clear understanding of various automation tools for developing digital pipelines (CI/CD pipelines). 

You will also have a deep understanding of microservices architecture and building and deploying scalable, distributed systems. From creating and implementing systems software to analyzing data to improve existing ones, you will contribute to increasing Untapped tech team productivity.

**Key duties and responsibilities:**

– Build, operate, and support highly available, fault tolerant, observable, performant, secure, and scalable platform tools and systems in a microservice environment that enable the Untapped engineering team to build best-in-class products

– Develop and maintain solutions which automate the configuration, provisioning, deployment, scaling, and monitoring of all of our systems

– Ensure high availability and acceptable levels of performance for our applications

– Work closely with QA and software developers to automate workflows, release high quality and well-tested software, and troubleshoot production issues

– Supervise Untapped cloud infrastructure (AWS)

– Own the implementation of CI/CD tooling and best practices

– Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
Serve as a subject matter expert on observability and monitoring of distributed systems

**What you will bring to Untapped:**

✔ Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (CS) or related discipline — equivalent industry experience and demonstrable knowledge may be used to replace this requirement

✔ 3+ years managing the deployment and environment strategy around distributed, scalable microservices software products

✔ Experience with Amazon Web Services

✔ Experience with containerization tools like Kubernetes, Fargate, Docker, etc.

✔ Experience doing command-line troubleshooting and scripting on Linux

✔ Proficiency with GitHub and GitOps

✔ Proficiency in Python or JavaScript

✔ A strong understanding of networking concepts (virtual networking, subnets, routing, load balancing, DNS, etc.), networking security and Infrastructure as Code

✔ A strong understanding of the Agile software development cycle

✔ Exceptional written and oral communication skills

✔ Experience being a part of a multicultural, distributed team, ideally with some experience in Africa

✔ A passion for innovation and creative problem solving, and a strong curiosity to learn new thingsand to experiment

✔ A can-do attitude and the flexibility required to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment