Senior Platform DevOps Engineer

At GiG, we are looking for a Senior Platform DevOps Engineer to join our team:

Responsabilities:

• Deep understanding of both operational and containerisation principles, together with a proven track record of designing and delivering solutions to maintain reliable and resilient platforms.
• Identifying bottlenecks in current practices and addressing these by designing automation around Kubernetes infrastructure management, continuous integration pipelines and deployment strategies for containerised workloads, multi-tenant services and shared applications to meet time constraints.
• On other days you’ll be evaluating and driving forward, as necessary, new technologies, tools or frameworks to improve system performance and/or operational efficiency, always focusing on quality.
• Work with Solution Architects, and the rest of the DevOps teams’ members and act as a technical authority and define standards for the rest of the operational teams. On a different front, mentor and collaborate, setting clear and tangible requirements for the success of the organisation.
• Holds SRE practices at heart and strongly believes good observability practices lead to an intimate understanding of platform behaviour and performance, with which one may also proactively detect problems in not-so-familiar systems during incident escalations

• Previous technical experience in a senior technical role.
• Deep understanding of the following: Container platforms operations and architectures CI/CD toolchains and related practices
• Infrastructure as Code and Templating (Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Kustomize)
• Solid Linux knowledge, including filesystems, day-to-day administration such as monitoring and observability, cli tools, scripting etc..
• Grasp of networking concepts, including TCP/IP layers, Load Balancers, reverse proxies, firewalling and packet inspection practices. 
• Experience building, deploying, maintaining, and operating SaaS products in a cost effective manner on popular Public clouds providers.
• Sound understanding of the software development ecosystem: use of Git, environment segregation, scrum methodologies etc.
• Ability to articulate technical documentation and design architecture blueprints.