Position: DevOps Engineer with Azure Cloud
Company: Star
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

**The Opportunity**

You’ll join a distributed team, building an innovative solution that integrates with optical medical devices, for one of the leaders in the industry. DevOps brings a fundamental change in collaboration – the recognition of the fact that there’s one entity standing behind a successful product: The delivery team. 

**Essential skills**

  -  Strong Linux/Unix administration skills;
  -  Networking fundamentals (switching, routing, load balancing);
  -  Web servers administrating (nginx, apache, haproxy);
  -  Versioning (Git, SVN, etc.);
  -  Scripting/programming skills (Bash, Python/Go, etc.);
  -  Cloud computing MS Azure cloud;
  -  Understanding the containerization concepts (Docker ecosystem). 
  -  Monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.);
  -  Log analytics (Azure AppInsights, ELK stack, Grafana Loki, etc.);
  -  Experience with relational DBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.);
  -  Good written communication and the ability to communicate verbally with the customer (English);
  -  A bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience).

**DevOps skills**

  -  Cloud configuration, IaaC (Terraform);
  -  Continuous Integration/Delivery (Azure DevOps, GitlabCI etc.);
  -  Configuration management (Ansible, Puppet  etc.).

**Bonus skills**

  -  Practice experience with second public cloud platform (AWS, Google Cloud);
  -  The ability to build cloud agnostic infrastructure solutions;
  -  Understanding of Distributed Systems concepts, High Availability, vertical and horizontal scalability;
  -  NoSQL DB knowledge (Redis, Memcached, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.).

**Responsibilities**

  -  Close communication with the development teams;
  -  Define and support CI/CD pipelines as a part of total automation framework for test environments;
  -  Automation of infrastructure provisioning and maintenance;
  -  Cloud resources management automation and cost optimisation;
  -  Implementation of centralised observability systems (logging, monitoring and alerting, tracing);
  -  Reporting on implementation progress and team activities.

**Compensation and Benefits**

We offer a rewarding compensation and benefits package, intellectually and creatively stimulating environment, professional flexibility and unique international travel opportunities.

Star is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are key to our ability to provide our clients and crew members with unique business and career outcomes. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability have no effect on our hiring decisions. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.