The Opportunity
The project is focused on the design and delivery of the platform solution for one of the world-leading creative advertising brands.
The concept of the platform may be described as a cross-organization “operating system”, a centralized hub for distributed innovation. The platform will become an entry point to different target audiences keen on using their own and 3rd party digital products while contributing to the development of the new applications.
Essential skills
- Strong Linux/Unix administration skills;
- Software lifecycle management experience;
- Networking fundamentals (switching, routing, load balancing);
- Web servers administrating (nginx, apache, haproxy);
- Versioning (Git, SVN, etc.);
- Scripting/programming skills (Bash, Python/Go, etc.);
- Understanding the containerization concepts (Docker ecosystem).
- Good experience with container orchestration systems, Kubernetes (GKE);
- Monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.);
- Log analytics (ELK stack, Grafana Loki, Splunk, etc.);
- Experience with relational DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.);
- Cloud computing (GCP);
- Excellent 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 (BitBucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, etc.);
- Configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc.).
Bonus skills
- Practice experience with second public cloud platform (AWS, MS Azure 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 optimization;
- Implementation of centralised observability systems (logging, monitoring&alerting, tracing);
- Reporting on implementation progress and team activities.