Position: Sr. Infrastructure Engineer
Company: StarOfService
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

StarOfService is a worldwide Marketplace for Services. Our product is adopted in 140+ countries worldwide. Our ambition is to build the largest marketplace for services in the world. We know we can only achieve it by providing the best User Experience, delivered through the best Product and the best Technology.


We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer
We are looking for a passionate Infrastructure engineer looking at building something great; in terms of user experience, code quality, best practices and best technologies.

This will be a full-time long term remote freelancing contract (40h/week),
Good level of English is important and required to work in a multicultural team,
Ready to jump in the mission ASAP.

You will get to learn challenges like the support of globally distributed cloud-based infrastructure for a highly loaded 24x7 platform, active communication with other development teams, and building a comprehensive proactive monitoring system.

Qualification and Expertise
As a experienced Infrastructure Engineer, we expect that:
You have been working with Linux for at least 5 years,
You have 3 years of experience minimum with Amazon Web Services
EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, and more.
You know at least one of these Configuration Management platforms: 
Chef, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack.
You have experience with Kubernetes 
You have experience with Terraform
You know theoretically and by experience Cloud architecture patterns
You have worked with Jenkins and Jenkins pipelines
You have an experience in developing in Ruby, Python or Bash for production,
You know at least 3 Database Engines from the list:
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongodb, Redis, ElasticSearch
You know the basics of SQL
You know the tooling and you already setted up Monitoring Systems

And you know how to use Git… of course :)
As a big Plus, we are interested in people having
An experience with Chef,
Developed with Groovy for Jenkins,
Worked with Prometheus,
Conceived and implemented Grafana Dashboards,
An experience with Golang,
Already developed Kubernetes Extensions (operators, admission webhooks)
Experience and Mindset
Minimum 5 years of professional experience,
Excellent understanding of what the Web is and how it works under the hood,
Hard worker and positive minded, willing to build the best product,
Team player with pro-activeness to initiate things, and willingness to execute well,
Ready to take responsibilities.

Terms of the offer and advantages
StarOfservice recruits the best engineers, product designers and builders, and offers the best conditions for making people enjoy their work, and deliver effectively.
Paid vacations and sick leaves
By joining us, you will access 25 days of paid vacation / year, and paid sick leaves.
Trial period validation bonus
After 3 months at the company, you will receive an exceptional $1000 bonus as a recognition of your trial period validation.
Education and growth
Shipping value is not enough,  and we know growing is a part of what every company should offer. For our people - and for the company - we offer the condition for growing:
By setting every year personalized Personal Development Plans with every employee,
By proposing a training budget for supporting every employee growth.

Our recruitment process is simple:
Human Resource interview with StarOfService HR Manager,
Technical Interview with our Infrastructure Team Lead,
Final Interview with StarOfService CTO/CPO.

More about StarOfService
StarOfService has been funded by famous VCs (Point Nine Capital, Kima Ventures, etc.) from all around the world. The company is also part of TheFamily, the most notorious European Start-Up network.
StarOfService also has world class advisors, among which:
Frédéric Mazzella, founder of BlaBlaCar,
Klaus Nyengaard, former CEO of JustEat,
Oleg Tscheltzoff, former CEO of Fotolia.