Position: Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)
Company: Svitla Systems
Experience required: 5y
Category: DevOps
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

**The Company**
Svitla Systems is a global trusted IT solutions company headquartered in California, with business and development offices throughout the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.  Svitla is an outspoken advocate of workplace flexibility, an individual approach to our teammates’ professional and personal growth, and a family-like environment. Since 2003 we have served a wide range of customers, from innovative start-ups in California to large corporations like  Ingenico, AstraZeneca, and Ancestry. At Svitla, developers work with clients directly, building lasting and successful partnerships. Our global mission is to build a business that contributes to the well-being of other communities and makes a lasting difference in the world. Join us!

**The Opportunity**
Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine. Our client is a synthetic biology start-up company in South San Francisco, California. The company has developed a proprietary silicon-based manufacturing process to produce synthetic DNA. They serve Life Science researchers who are changing the world for the better. From diverse medicine, agriculture, industrial chemicals, and data storage fields, scientists use the client’s synthetic genes, oligo pools, and NGS target enrichment to better lives and improve the planet’s sustainability. Synthetic biologists use the products to engineer organisms that produce medicine and create everyday chemicals using the atmosphere as a carbon source. These breed plants make their fertilizers and develop in-vivo diagnostics that alert us when we are sick.  The Israel R&D center in Tel Aviv is building the software tools which enable synthetic biologists to design and edit biological code and develop better bio-based products faster and cheaper.

**Requirements: **
- Proficiency in AWS services, including EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrails, Lambda, etc.
- Proficiency in containers (Docker, ECS, and EKS).
- Expertise in Git source control.
- Expertise in Helm.
- Knowledge of  Terraform.
- Experience with automated build in Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools.
- Experience with authoring automated deployments.
- Deep system-level familiarity with Linux operating systems and scripting in Bash or Python.
- Experience in bootstrapping and automating the build of complete environments.
- Experience with system monitoring, logging, reporting, and optimization.

**Responsibilities:**
- Support service requests (e.g., system/service access requests, account termination requests, etc.).
- Manage the CI/CD pipeline.
- Upgrade, deploy, or enable/configure services in AWS.
Fix or improve current processes (monitoring, logging, alerting, build/deploy, etc.).
- Assist developers in troubleshooting build or runtime issues.
- Maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure high reliability.
- Provide cost optimization (AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, etc.).
- Support security improvements (improvement of DevOps Function Maturity - projects related to improving DevOps capabilities, e.g.).
- Run security-related projects (AWS security, container security, static code analysis, etc.).
- Perform operations excellence (automation of critical repetitive DevOps tasks, improve DevOps technology stacks such as monitoring, logging, CI/CD, etc.).
- Architect technical solutions (e.g., machine learning in AWS, high-performance computing, solution architecture and implementation for specific needs, etc.).
- Run performance efficiency projects.
- Conduct reliability and availability projects (e.g., BCP/DR, KPI dashboarding, etc.).

**We Offer:**
- Competitive compensation plan that takes skills and experience into consideration.
- Annual performance appraisals.
- Possibility to choose your workspace either remote or combination of your home and one of our development offices.
- Flexible working hours and adjustable work/life balance. Projects that use advanced, cutting-edge technologies.
- Vacation time, sick leaves, national holidays, family supplementary days off.
- Comprehensive medical insurance, including dental services, massages, and sports activities.
- Support for a healthy lifestyle, compensation of running events.
- Maternity leave policy.
- A personal loan budget is available for long-term personnel.
- Partial compensation of conferences, courses, and English classes.
- Free meetups, webinars, and conferences organized by Svitla.
- Birthday presents for personnel and New Year gifts for children.
- Fun summer and winter corporate parties and memorable anniversary presents.