About Appier

Appier is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent. Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and U.S., and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information.

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be part of our product teams. Our product teams focus on building large scale distributed systems aiming to provide high quality services. You will focus on design and implementation of tool for product development, the technologies of service operation and deployment onto instances with high scalability requirement. The seniority/title is determined by job-related skills, experience, and evaluation after the interview. We welcome international candidates to our teams. If you are not currently located in Taiwan, we will help you relocate by sponsoring your VISA.

Responsibilities

Work with product team to ensure stability, reliability and availability among micro-services.
Develop and maintainlog management system, service monitoring and alert software stack.
Develop service deployment and operation process.
Develop tools for process automation.
Maintain runbook and related documents for service operation.
Develop tools for process automation.
Cowork with team members on capacity planning and service scaling.
Service incidence management and troubleshooting.
May need to participate in on-call rotation.

About you

[Minimum qualifications]

Bachelor degree or above in computer engineering/computer science or related fields.
Familiar with Linux system administration.
Familiar with Shell Script and at least 1 script language. (e.g. Python/Golang)
Hands-on experience in planning, deploying and operating services on production.
Ability to use wide variety of open source technologies.
Knowledge of git.
Working knowledge of cloud computing.

[Preferred qualifications]

5 or more years of work experience as a software/system engineer.
Experience in architecting, developing, or maintaining production-grade cloud solutions in virtualized environments.
Experience in deployment and orchestration technologies. (such as Docker, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Kubernetes)
Experience in building and deploying automation and continuous integration systems. (such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Bitbucket Pipeline)
Experience in operating a big data systems related to data access, collection, processing and storage.
Experience in operating and deploying large scale online web services.
Experience in operating services on IaaS. (such as AWS/GCP)
Experience in Database management. (e.g.Database System Setup, Backup & Restore, System Tuning, Data Migration) MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL will be plus.
Security Knowledge such as setting up Firewall, proper security policy design, network attack defense.
Working knowledge of virtualization, hosted services, multi-tenant cloud infrastructures, storage systems and content delivery networks.