Senior Linux System Administrator / DevOps

OpsWorks Co. is a Ukraine-based professional DevOps and system administration company delivering complex IT engineering solutions and remote support services. We are looking to expand our team with an experienced Senior Linux System administrator / DevOps Engineer who will help us to ensure that we meet our customers' demands of service delivery and QoS. The position implies working with the latest technology stack and constant growth within the role. We will work together to improve clients infrastructure development, configuration management, continuous integration and delivery processes to guarantee reliability, availability and high performance of the underlying environments.

Your Qualifications/Skills:

• At least 5 years of experience in IT Operations, Systems Engineering or SRE;

• Outstanding knowledge of *nix systems;

• Deep understanding of virtualization concepts (at least 2 of these: KVM, Xen, OpenVZ, ESXi);

• Solid LAMP-stack experience with HA and HighLoad systems implementation;

• Database administration skills (at least 1 of these: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB);

• Strong scripting skills (at least 2 of the following: Python, Bash, Ruby);

• Experience working with common systems management tools (at least 1 of these: Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack, Chef);

• Intermediate English level is a must, Ukrainian or Russian native;

• Strong time management skills;

• Deep interest in DevOps streaming.

Nice to have:

• Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker/Rkt and ECS, K8s or similar)

• Experience working with Cloud Platforms (at least 1 of the following: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud);

• Understanding of microservices architecture concept;

• Understanding of Infrastructure as a code paradigm;

• Remote working experience.

You will be responsible for:

• System administration and DevOps support of worldwide development teams;

• Cloud architecture design and implementation;

• Continuous integration and continuous delivery implementation;

• Microservices application architecture refactoring;

• APM and application ecosystem lifecycle monitoring.

We offer:

• Challenging tasks;

• Opportunity to learn new technologies in an innovative industry;

• Possibility to do new things, not just maintain old;

• Plenty of responsibility and freedom in choosing technological solutions;

• Possibility to grow your career to Senior DevOps Engineer position;

• Appreciation and honest/open leadership style;

• A friendly team of experts who inspire and support you;

• Self-education support (access to premium subscription to Safari Books Online, Grammarly, etc; paid attending professional conferences and meetups);

• Work from home office, no need to waste your time getting to office and back;

• An unlimited contract;

• The salary is paid in USD currency twice a month;

• Paid vacation (18 working days per year);

• Paid sick leaves;

• Compensation negotiable, based upon experience.

We are a small but very diverse team.

We are not looking to expand or hire aggressively as we prefer to give new employees the time to become an organic part of our team.

Apply and we look forward to meeting you and hopefully work with you very soon!