Position: DevOps Engineer
Company: Alcor
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
Published: 2021-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

In this role, you will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge to help scale our processes and infrastructure with best practices, while learning new skills and using the latest technology.
 
We are backed by Insight Partners, one of the world's leading technology investors (Automattic, Postman, Docker and many others), and our applications are used by millions of scientists around the globe.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Partnering with engineering and product stakeholders to address needs
- Managing existing infrastructure
- Upgrading and improving overall architecture for scale and security
- Responding to and addressing issues in production
- Maintaining and documenting architecture in code (e.g. Pulumi, Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Helping establish best-practices for existing and new infrastructure
- Assisting with security risk assessments and solutions
- Helping engineering with deployments and operations
- Measuring and monitoring application and infrastructure performance and availability
 
**Required skills**
- 4+ years of experience working with high traffic applications
- Hands-on AWS experience (ALB, ECS, EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Route53, etc)
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
- Experience with APMs and logging (e.g. Sentry, DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
- Good understanding of scripting languages (e.g. bash, Python)
- Solid understanding of Linux administration and networking
- Experience working with Nginx and Apache
- Experience with microservice architectures using Docker and serverless
- Prior experience setting up CI/CD pipelines (e.g. BitBucket Pipelines)
- Experience working with databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
- Understanding of best-practices to secure cloud infrastructure
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills: able to interact with 3rd party support
- Highly organized and responsive
 
**As a plus**
- Experience working with data protection requirements (e.g. ISO, GDPR, SOC2)