Position: DevOps Engineer (Poland)
Company: Kontakt.io
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

About Kontakt.io 
Kontakt.io is the industry leader in indoor environmental, location, and occupancy services using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE ®). Our mission is to deliver human-building interfaces that provide people with delightful, useful, and safe indoor experiences to help make buildings work for people. We are out to define a new building DNA that is human-centric. We build technologies that help transform buildings into indoor spaces that are useful for people in their daily journey to accomplish their goals, working or being cared for in a safe & sustainable indoor environment.

We started in 2013 when Kontakt.io built the first enterprise-graded BLE beacon solution for building-mobile interfaces. Since then, we have provided BLE solutions to over 30,000 end-users, delivered via +1,100 partners using +3 million IoT devices in the field. Today our solutions cover approximately one billion sq ft. We continue to be a pioneer in the field, with a focus on Smart Buildings in Healthcare and Corporate Real Estate Spaces.

We are currently looking for a DevOps Engineer.

The DevOps Engineer role enables continuous delivery and continuous integration processes. 
This role is tasked with helping Kontakt.io in the coordination and integration of IT systems into an operational unit, ensuring full functional and performance capabilities are retained.

We are looking for a person who can work independently with the ability to take ownership of the solution and look at the problem from a product perspective, suggest proper solutions, and then execute them. Someone who works best in a fast-paced environment desires growth, takes risks on bold ideas and is open to learning from other world-class engineers.

You will be expected to:
- drive architecture and deliver customer solutions on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform with a specialised focus on AWS capabilities with experience in virtualisation, migrations and automation
- continuous deployment and delivery of new applications version, configuration management and automation 
- collaborate with the engineering team to define and implement solutions with external and internal cloud services features 
- identify new tools and processes to improve the cloud platform and automate processes (e.g. create automation for log file management)
- develop templates or scripts to automate everyday developer or operations functions
- set up alarms, event triggers or dashboard to monitor AWS resource workloads
- assist in the development and implementation of security best practices and initiatives at all levels of the cloud infrastructure
- recommend, trial & implement security monitoring tools at all levels of infrastructure
- manage and resolve security incidents and improvements
- audit various aspects of the organisation's security
- CI/CD pipeline management
- set up monitoring and alerting of multiple environments
- participate in 24/7 on-call rotation

Our requirements:
- min. 3 years of professional experience in a similar role is required
experience with Kubernetes running in cloud environments such as AWS
- experience using tools such as Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Docker etc. 
- knowledge of information security concepts and technologies such as IDS, internet gateways, SIEM, HIDS, NIDS, web application firewalls, and vulnerability management tools
- ability to demonstrate expertise in Security Operations
- good understanding of Linux/Unix operating system
- fluency with scripting and automation languages such as Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.
- networking experience: load balancing, network security, standard network protocols
- exposure to a DevOps with a background in Server Operations or Systems Administration
- experience in working with REST and RPC APIs 
- an autonomous / self-managed work style
- strong communication and collaboration skills, with a good understanding of English, both verbal and written 
- team player with the ability to operate in a fast-paced, ever-changing work environment
- we are willing to hire Poland- based engineer or someone ready to relocate to Poland. 

We offer:
- fast-paced and dynamic startup environment, flat structure
- B2B contract or a permanent agreement
- competitive salary and stock option plan
- work with cutting-edge technologies
- 100% remote or hybrid work (office in Krakow)
- collaborative and self-organized environment
- flexible working hours
- private medical care, cafeteria system