Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

Description:

• The Senior DevOps Engineer will be part of DataCamp's infrastructure team, responsible for CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure (AWS), logging, monitoring, security, and data platform (GCP).
• The role involves advising production engineering teams on infrastructure best practices, managing company-wide shared resources, and enabling seamless deployment of applications.
• Responsibilities include enhancing developer productivity, scalability, availability, and security through automation, self-serve deployment, and cost control.
• The position involves working with EKS (Kubernetes), Istio service mesh, Terraform, and managing the Kong API Gateway.
• The team also oversees the DataCamp Data Platform deployed on Big Query and airflow for data pipeline jobs.
• Additionally, the role includes ownership of the learn multiplexer product for scheduling course sessions on the DataCamp platform.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in administering/maintaining infrastructure tools like AWS, Docker, and K8s.
• 2+ years of experience in advising on/implementing deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
• 2+ years of web development experience with languages like JavaScript, Go, Python, Node, or Ruby.
• 2+ years of security tooling experience, including tools like SonarCloud and vulnerability scanning.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Interest in understanding and scaling complex systems, monitoring, and self-healing systems.
• Highly organized with a flexible, can-do attitude and a willingness/aptitude for learning.
• Ability to contribute to the team through code reviews, technical discussions, and documentation.
• Collaborative work style with the ability to develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work with a T-shaped cross-functional team in a mission-driven company.
• Exposure to a global learning community and a diverse range of projects.
• Chance to contribute to democratizing data and AI education for all.
• Involvement in enhancing developer productivity, scalability, availability, and security.
• Access to cutting-edge technologies like EKS, Istio, Terraform, and more.
• Potential for growth and development in a dynamic and innovative environment.
• Plus points for understanding data engineering principles and having experience with API gateways or service meshes.