Position: Junior DevOps
Company: Qubit Labs
Experience required: 1y
Category: DevOps
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

We are looking for a **Junior DevOps** to join our team. You have the chance to join the project that provides free access to millions of research papers as well as a number of information services for researchers, organizations and businesses.

The project has over 40 million monthly active users and stores over 200 million metadata records and 25 million scientific documents. Currently listed among the 1,500 most used websites globally and among the 20 most used services in Science and Education.

**Skills:**
- Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting;
- Knowledge of the following tools and technologies: (GIT, GitHub, Logging);
- Some experience with web development (LAMP);
- Familiarity with various operating systems and platforms;
- Knowledge and experience of working with databases and querying databases;
- Knowledge of system security (e.g. intrusion detection systems) and data backup/recovery;
- Willingness to learn new things;
- English - Intermediate+;

**Will be a plus:**
- Good knowledge of and experience with at least 1 of the following  (PHP, Python, Java);
- Configuration Management (e.g. Puppet, Chef, and Ansible);
- Continuous Integration, Testing, Monitoring, Containerization;
- Virtualization and containerisation: docker, kubernetes;
- Fundamentals of Elasticsearch management;

**Responsibilities:**
- Operation, maintenance and monitoring of infrastructure and backend services;
- Management and identification of bottlenecks in processes processing large amounts of data;
- Troubleshoot issues and outages;
- Contribution to product and performance improvements and optimisation of existing services;
- Performing updates, recovery of systems/services when needed;
- Fix problems when they occur and make adaptations to prevent them from re-occurring as required;
- Performance and scalability assessment and testing;
- Building an internal wiki with technical documentation, manuals and IT policies;

**We offer:**
- To join only foreign product teams;
- To be fully involved in product development and implement your bits of knowledge and ideas.
- Competitive salary depends on your qualification + share options;
- Flexible schedule: 8 hours per day, usually we start working from 9 to 11 am;
- Full-time remote;
- Paid vacation (18 working days per year);
- Paid sick leaves (10 working days per year);
- Registering as a private entrepreneur („ФОП”, managed by our accountant);
- Health insurance;
- Educational compensation;
- Monthly delivery of delicious lunches and snacks;
- Corporate life subject to quarantine regulations (a variety of online activities).