Full-Time Staff DevOps Engineer
Fandom is hiring a remote Full-Time Staff DevOps Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Poznań, Poland based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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About this RoleFandom is growing! Our Staff DevOps Engineer opportunity is based in Poznan and reports to our Manager of Network Operations.Our Engineering team is a fan of building web experiences on the world’s largest platform for fans, with 300+ million monthly users!
As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you will develop and monitor our scalable infrastructure in a large-scale Linux environment. You will work closely with all development teams to ensure that services are designed with scale, operability, performance, and ease-of-use in mind. Your day-to-day operations will include diagnosing and resolving performance and reliability issues across the entire stack: hardware, kernel, application, and network. You’ll be responsible for driving the entire lifecycle of DevOps projects and feature developments.
You Will
- Design, implement, and maintain high availability systems
- Lead improvement of code integration and deployment processes
- Contribute to and occasionally lead meetings: planning, stand-ups, RCAs and retrospectives
- Provide strategy and thought leadership in product and technical decisions
- Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, network management, and security/performance monitoring
- Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards and make recommendations for improvement
- Mentor other passionate engineers with diverse skill sets in a collaborative team environment
- Participate in on-call duties on a rotational basis.
You Have
- Experience scaling and monitoring production infrastructure for heavy user load, e.g., 10,000,000+ monthly active users.
- 5+ years of Technical Operations, DevOps, System Operations, Network Operations or Site Reliability experience.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with configuration management tools (preferably Chef, but experience with Puppet, Ansible, or other equivalent tools is acceptable )
- A strong understanding of Linux systems, both high and low level
- Proficiency with modern monitoring systems e.g., Prometheus
- Proficiency with networking protocols (OSI network layers, TCP/IP, routing)
- Proficiency in identifying and creating useful systems’ metrics needed to maintain performance and availability.
- Knowledge of relational databases
- Programming experience with scripting and coding: go, python, perl etc.
Bonus Points
- Experience with cloud providers: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon AWS
- Knowledge of Prometheus, Hashicorp Consul, Terraform, or Vault
- Understanding of the ELK stack (elasticsearch, logstash, kibana)
- Strong Networking experience (BGP, VPNs, network security) – for example, CNA certification
- Experience building and maintaining continuous integrations and deployment pipelines.