DevOps Engineer

• *Who we are**

We are a leader in mobile technology, providing innovative solutions to 1.2 billion consumers. In an ever-increasing digital world, we help businesses grow their digital reach & toolkits to optimize user experience, increase engagement, attract new customers, and boost their revenues.

Think of performance marketing but on steroids as our top-notch marketeers and engineers build digital journeys through an omnichannel marketing approach like no other. Currently, we work with the biggest names in Telco, Insurance, Education, FMCGs, and Retail in over 45 countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and South-East Asia.

• *About the role:**

Our focus centers on streamlining the development, building, testing, integration, packaging, and deployment of our microservice-based products. We are looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to join our team and help us maintain and scale our infrastructure to provide an even better experience for our users. An ideal candidate would be a passionate engineer who loves Linux, prefers working in the shell over an IDE, is intimately familiar with cloud infrastructure and VMWare virtualization, has a strong networking background, is comfortable in a polyglot environment, who thrives in true-agile, fast paced, production facing environments and loves hardware. A team member who may not have all the answers but knows how to find them.

• *What you will do...
• Help us define the future of our artifact and container-based deployment strategies.
• Evolve and support our immutable deployment platform.
• Contribute to the design of high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, ensuring high availability and performance, while collaborating closely with development teams.
• Design and implement on-premise and cloud infrastructure solutions on platforms such as VMWare, AWS, Azure.
• Maintain and upgrade our on-premise data center infrastructure.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and scalability.
• Develop and deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to system performance, network connectivity, and security.
• Perform system upgrades, patch management, and security hardening.
• Adapt to and become part of a continuously evolving environment.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or other similar tools to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Enable developers to quickly build, bake, and deploy images either locally, on Kubernetes and to the cloud.
• Work directly with Upstream engineers to provide a polyglot-friendly experience and first-class support for platforms built on Java, Python, Go, PHP and others.
• Monitor the performance, availability, and security of our on-premise and cloud environments.
• Contribute to the development of tools for automating deployments, unifying platform metrics, reporting, and monitoring.
• *Requirements
• 3-5 years of experience in DevOps, Systems Engineering, or similar roles.
• Expertise in VMware vCenter, clustering, and virtualization technologies.
• Experience managing bare metal servers, storage, and SAN networks.

Linux experience- - knowledge of Linux system administration and troubleshooting.

• Exposure to container technology (e.g., Docker), container orchestration systems (e.g., Kubernetes), container-focused Linux distributions, and cloud virtualization.

Cloud experience- - designing and building tools and infrastructure for cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).

Knowledge on DevOps tools- - Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, Gitlab, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, amongst others.

Operational experience- - comfortable providing support to other departments, optimizing deployments for availability and uptime, going deep on troubleshooting and remediation.

Programming experience- - Bash, Python, Golang, amongst others (both reading and writing).

• Knowledge of Relational Databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL systems (e.g., Redis, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Cassandra).
• Great communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Eagerness to learn new technologies.
• *Benefits**

We offer a competitive base salary and benefits, directly dependent on the candidate’s qualifications and skills. The real excitement comes from working closely with a dynamic, smart, agile, and highly motivated team in a competitive and fast-paced environment.

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