Position: Senior DevOps (Riga)
Company: Sprinterra
Experience required: 5y
Category: DevOps
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Risk Focus is a NYC-based company that provides strategic IT consulting to global enterprises. Our DevOps and Cloud practice provides solutions, methodologies, and support guidance for digital transformation, containerization and automation. Our Financial Services team offers strong domain expertise and technology acumen to deliver feature-focused solutions in Capital Markets.

We are problem-solvers, architects, strategists, implementors, and lifelong learners. We collaborate with each other and with our clients to help them meet their short- and long-term technology goals. Our culture is open, transparent, challenging, and fun.

We hire smart, self-starters who thrive in an open-ended environment to figure out what needs to be done and take ownership in delivering results.

**As a Sr. DevOps Engineer, you will:**
- Analyze clients’ existing infrastructures & software environments
- Prepare cloud migration plans and lead the implementation of those plans
- Automate deployment and lifecycle management using orchestrators such as AWS CloudFormation or Hashicorp Terraform
- Automate application configuration using CM tools such as Ansible - 
- Playbooks, SaltStack formulas or Kubernetes Templates / Helm Charts
- Monitor infrastructure and applications using tools such as Splunk, Graylog, Grafana, TICK, or Prometheus
- Create CI/CD pipelines using cloud-native tools, or best-of-breed tools such as Jenkins
- Be immersed in a continual learning environment, adopting new techniques, patterns, and tools
- Complete certifications and accreditations, advancing your technical skills and overall career

**Requirements. All candidates must have:**
- A bachelor’s degree in something interesting, or equivalent experience
- At least 5 years’ experience as a DevOps/System/Network Engineer automating infrastructure, deployment, network, configuration, or testing processes
- Deep knowledge of Linux / Unix or Windows systems administration
- Deep familiarity with AWS offerings
- Experience with automation/configuration management using SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, or similar
- Kubernetes development and administration experience, preferably in both cloud-native and self-hosted environments
- Solid scripting skills (Python, Bash/KSH/ZSH)
- Self-driven desire to continuously learn new technologies and skills, and solve tough problems
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- In addition, ideal candidates will also have experience with:

**In addition, ideal candidates will also have experience with:**
- DevOps Engineering in an Enterprise setting
- Large deployments on Azure, Google Compute, OpenStack
- Creating pipelines, managing pools of agents, tracking artifacts, etc.
- Automated Testing and/or Test Data Management
- Containerization technologies and best practices
- Interacting directly with clients in a consulting capacity
- Experience working in a distributed work environment

**Benefits. Risk Focus provides to all employees:**
- A flexible work environment with a globally distributed team
- A successful and growing, international, multi-cultural team and company
- Competitive compensation packages
- Modern and spacious A class office
- Continual professional and personal development through employer-paid training and certifications