Position: DevOps Engineer
Company: Bridge
Experience required: 3y
Category: DevOps
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

And we unite changemakers in pet care to break down barriers, open new doors, share insights, and advance our collective knowledge. All so we can reimagine the pet parenting experience, up people’s confidence, and help the world find better ways to care.

We are a coalition that includes:

Adopt-a-Pet, the destination for finding homes for homeless pets; we help animal shelters, humane societies, SPCAs, pet rescue groups, and pet adoption agencies connect their homeless pets to millions of adopters a month 
Our world-leading Wisdom Panel™ genetic health screening and DNA testing for dogs
The award-winning Whistle™ GPS dog tracker and health monitor
Pet Insight Project, our ground-breaking science team that uses AI to turn billions of data points into actionable insights
Vet Insight our expert-driven, on-demand pet health platform
The Wildest, the destination that helps pet parents keep their cool in the wild world of pet parenting
GoodFriend, our recently-launched marketplace for all your pet’s people
PetStory, our platform that curates top services for pet parents in Russia
FluffyGo, the mobile-first platform is a one-stop solution for science-minded pet parents in China 
LEAP VENTURE STUDIO, our accelerator that supports innovators and start-ups, allowing Kinship to bring new solutions to pet parents
Together, these teams and more work to set new standards in pet care. And, as a part of Mars Petcare, they work to create a better world for pets. Learn more at www.kinship.co. 

HOW YOU’LL HELP EVERYONE PET PARENT LIKE A PRO

Contribute to architecture, design, and implementation of new and existing systems to enhance their performance, reliability, and scalability
Monitor, manage, and setup alerting for our systems using third-party services such as New Relic, PagerDuty, Sentry and a host of other open source tools
Work with engineers to automate deployments and their configuration across multiple platforms
Identify and resolve bottlenecks and vulnerabilities in our infrastructure and code
Collaborate with other DevOps and Software Engineers in our 24/7 on-call rotation for Whistle’s critical systems
Participate in incident response and post-mortems, helping to perform root cause analysis and implementing resulting action items
Support development teams in their infrastructure needs and guide them in DevOps best practices
Work with the team on capacity planning and optimizations to Kinship’s infrastructure footprint
Continue to expand Kinship’s cloud infrastructure

THE PRO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

As Kinship people, we have three pillars that set out how we aim to be--in our everyday work, and in how we approach each other. We call these our Cultural Pillars. In all of the roles that we hire for, we look for people who are Optimistic, Purposefully Inquisitive, and Open to All. And for this role, you’ll need these skills to knock it out of the dog park:

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

You Have Courage: a willingness to bring forth a new idea, engaging others across Kinship to support you, and taking risks and action will full accountability
You Learn at Pace: a consistent and fast work ethic to meet growth goals, and the ability to evolve and pivot quickly from what you’ve learned
You Value Difference: a genuine belief in inclusion and diversity is in your DNA, and it shows up in your work, and how you work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

3+ years professional DevOps or SRE experience
Autonomous, passionate individuals with experience across the stack
Experience working in high-scale environments
Knowledge of and experience working with common AWS services
Strong skills in &quot;Infrastructure as Code&quot; (IaC), including experience with Terraform or Pulumi
Background in sound agile software development principles
Experience running docker workloads in production and at scale using Kubernetes and/or ECS
Experience working with CI/CD tools including Github Actions, CircleCI, Bamboo
Treat best practices for security as a requirement, not an afterthought
Nice to have: Proficiency in languages such as TypeScript, Python or Ruby.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION;
Systems Engineering across all brands