Staff DevOps Engineer

We’re looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our SRE team within our Infrastructure & Production group. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is responsible for our infrastructure development and maintenance. Our architecture consists of both cloud and bare metal solutions.

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 thousands of servers and we are moving towards a Hybrid Cloud environment where we utilize the best of both worlds to build scalable production and development environments. Our team utilizes SRE and DevOps principles as our way of working.

In this role you can utilize a wide scope of knowledge and experience from your previous positions. You will be able to lead larger technical initiatives and mentor more junior members of the team.

Our toolchain

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

What You'll Be Doing…

• Help to drive our strategic infrastructure initiatives from the technical design to leading technical implementation.
• Innovate with the team on key improvements and continuously assess the technology landscape for opportunities.
• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize our production and development infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalability and efficiency of our distributed application.
• Work with other staff engineers, engineering managers and directors to ensure that we can streamline the infrastructure to our development teams with a platform engineering mentality. 

You'll need:

• Production experience with distributed/scalable systems and/or high traffic web applications.
• Experience in running large scale production with Kubernetes.
• Experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible.
• 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
• Knowledge in good security practices, including network security, system hardening, secure software

Bonus points, if you have:

• Experience in leadership, team lead or project manager roles.
• Experience in running large scale production in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, etc)
• Experience in SQL, building complex queries and debugging query performance
• Experience with large scale SQL databases like PostgreSQL, NoSQL stores like Redis or anything in between
• Experience 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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