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TYPE OF CONTRACT: B2B

REMOTE WORK

Job description

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with Azure skills who is willing to show and share his knowledge and experience. If you are the one we are offering work with a team of amazing people who are waiting for your contribution. No doubt STX Next is the place where we give you an opportunity to realize your ideas working in different projects and technologies.

What do we need from you?

Reporting directly to the Head of DevOps, the Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for assisting different project teams, providing subject matter expertise in relation to architecture, configuration, automation and maintenance of project environments (cloud and local). Furthermore the Senior DevOps will enhance our existing offerings, building IaaS, PaaS, and Network-as-a-service support of our clients.

The position is a technical-commercial role, assisting the Sales and Operations department offering potential and current clients with the expertise needed to make operations and architecture critical decisions.

The candidate would be expected to provide Level 2/3 support that ensures continuity of the produced solutions that enable businesses.

Requirements

Must have

• A proven experience in Cloud solutions in an engineering role, using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.
• Extended experience in Microsoft Azure; nice to have experience in other cloud providers (e.g. Google Cloud, AWS).
• Experience in Configuration Management with good experience in at least two of the following orchestration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt).
• Experience in CI solutions (e.g. Azure DevOps GitHubActions)
• Experience in designing and implementing high availability/high performance HTTP environments.
• Experience in working with at least one monitoring tool (e.g. Nagios, Zenoss, Zabbix, Prometheus).
• Experience in using tools to define Infrastructure as a Code (e.g. Terraform, Bicep, etc).
• Deep understanding of: Debian and/or Red Hat based Linux distributions, HTTPd services, Load balancers, Virtualization, Containers, Databases.
• Experience in creating technical documents providing insight into the design and implementation of solutions.
• Exceptional Operational and Support awareness (taking accountability for the DevOps architecture, maintenance and problem solutions).
• Good experience in Networking (DNS, NTP, SSH, HTTP).
• Experience in using AppServices, AKS
• Experience in Application Containerisation
• English proficiency (min. B2)

Nice to have

• Good knowledge of at least one programming language (Python preferred).
• Azure Associate certification or equivalent knowledge level.
• Understanding of Agile development and SCRUM concepts.

Benefits

• Work-life balance
• We are open to discussing individual needs. Set up working hours and limited remote work scheduled with your team and manager, in a way that works for both sides.

• Reimbursed private medical care (Medicover) and Multisport
• We care about the health and well-being of our colleagues. Choose a sports card and dedicated medical care for yourself and your relatives.

• Leader’s support
• Work with true enthusiasts and professionals who will support you along the way. You can count on leaders and experts who are willing to share their knowledge so that you too can join their ranks someday.

• Technology focus
• Python and JavaScript are not our only strengths, we are also very good at React Native, IoT, Machine Learning, .Net, DevOps and Blockchain.

• Growth review
• Junior, Regular or Senior? Every year we have a chance to discuss acquired skills and prepare a development plan for upcoming months.

• Events
• Attend exciting internal webinars, celebrate special days with us, and join us at conferences and meetups as a listener or speaker!

• Workation
• Team trips where you have a chance as a team not only to work together, but also integrate f2f.