DevOps Engineer

We're looking for a DevOps - Site Reliability Engineer to work closely with the development teams and customer-facing teams to continuously improve, support, secure, and operate our production and test environments. 

We believe in automating our infrastructure as much as possible and pursuing challenging problems in a sustainable and repeatable way. Currently, our infrastructure processes petabytes of data every month through hundreds of servers.

Our toolchain

• Hybrid Cloud: 2500+ dedicated servers, supplemented with a mix of private and public cloud
• Infrastructure as code: Ansible and Terraform
• Kubernetes “the hard way” on 1500+ dedicated servers
• We also run supporting infrastructure like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, VictoriaMetrics, HAProxy, Clickhouse and more

We are currently working in a hybrid mode where the team visits the office three days a week. 

You'll need:

• Production experience with distributed/scalable systems and/or high traffic web applications
• Experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system
• Troubleshooting skills that range from diagnosing low-level OS issues to large-scale failures within distributed systems
• Knowledge of how the web works and HTTP fundamentals
• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, load balancing and firewalling

Bonus points, if you have:

• Good knowledge of at least one programming language. Smartly uses e.g. Python, Ruby and NodeJS
• Experience in containerising applications and deployment to production (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience in building modern infrastructure in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, etc)
• Experience in SQL, building complex queries and debugging query performance
• Experience with SQL databases like PostgreSQL, NoSQL stores like Redis or anything in between
• Knowledge in good security practices, including network security, system hardening, secure software
• Familiarity with automated build pipelines, continuous integration, delivery and deployment. Currently we're deploying to production ~2000 times/week.
• Experience building large-scale data processing pipelines

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 800 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook!

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