Position: DevOps Engineer
Company: Toughbyte
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

KX delivers the best possible performance and flexibility for high-volume, data-intensive analytics and applications across multiple industries.

Kdb+, the core platform underpinning FD’s software division KX, is the world’s fastest time-series database, deployed in markets as diverse as financial trading, space exploration, telecommunications, and formula one racing. Kdb+ combines streaming, in-memory and historical data in a simple and unified platform. 

Now KX is looking for  Engineers who are motivated self-starters and are comfortable working collaboratively as well as independently, to join our Strategic R&D team. You will:

Design platform transformations and migrations towards modern cloud infrastructure
Ensure smooth and reliable operation of the application platform, the surrounding ecosystem of microservices, and their dependencies
Troubleshoot, debug and follow-up on emerging issues in our application stack and its surroundings
Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools
Requirements

Must-have skills:

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related technical field
3+ years of experience in an SRE/Operations/ role as part of a team 
Experience in supporting complex web applications running highly available and high traffic infrastructure based on Linux
Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack, etc.), and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging)
Aptitude for automation and streamlining of tasks
Comfortable with shell and scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (e.g. , , Bash, , etc.)
Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills
Strong communication skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
Familiarity  with CI/CD 
Familiarity with modern distributed container cluster management systems (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos, …)