Full-Time Mid Level DevOps Engineer

About the role:

As the platform expands we looking to add more experts into our engineering team. We are focused in making sure we deliver a world class experience for both our customer and our team. We are looking for someone who has had varying and vast experiences the majority of which have been infrastructure but also has a good grasp of practical knowledge of application development. They need to know how to improve application performance and scalability by using the right tools.

We move and think fast so it’s important that you are able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and are happy to roll up your sleeves to do whatever it takes to support the team in every way possible. This is an exciting opportunity to have a huge impact in rocket ship of a business with a real purpose! If that sounds exciting - we would love you to join our pack!

A Day In The Life…

• Collaborate with our tech team and engineering managers on the Petlab applications and platform roadmaps to understand the context behind what you’re building;
• Collaborating and designing technical solutions with the engineering managers that satisfy functional and non-functional needs;
• Ensuring the platform is performant, secure, scalable, robust, reliable and high quality, well tested code in the critical areas;
• Responsible for making sure our infrastructure always has fail safes, and where possible introduce programmatic deployments;
• Continuously communicating outwards as earlier as possible when things are on track or not;
• Championing and sharing best practices to improve the team knowledge of how DevOps is critical to our velocity;

Requirements

What we’re looking for:

• A proven track record of 3+ years working as an DevOps engineer and building infrastructure to support numerous applications;
• Excellent understanding of the following: AWS tools and services, Terraform;
• Experience in automation tools and infrastructure as code
• Comfortable using command line and Linux
• Experience building highly available infrastructure;
• Good understanding and experience of Python (object oriented, functional);
• Enthusiastic self-starter that will be able to work in a fast-paced environment;
• Proven ability to quickly build and maintain authentic relationships and trust with individuals;

Our stack:

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Next.js
• React.js
• PHP
• Docker
• Netlify
• Bitbucket
• MongoDB / Redis
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk / EC2
• Aurora RDS

Desirable:

• Prior experience with serverless technologies
• Experience with architectural patterns like event driven design
• Experience working with the eCommerce domain and mobile application architecture;