DevOps Monitoring engineer (Remote from Georgia/Armenia/Serbia/Kazakhstan)

ClearScale (headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA) - AWS Premier Consulting Partner has been offering a full range of professional cloud computing services for over 10 years, including architecture design, DevOps automation, refactoring and cloud-native applications development, integration, migration, solving all sorts of security issues (from just a security check to preventing cyber-attacks) and 24/7 technical support using the best-advanced technologies.

• We were the third company to gain a new AWS competence: Applied AI and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps). Less than 15 partners have this competency!
• We have confirmed status in the Database Freedom program (total less than 20 companies in)
• Proven expertise as a Managed Services Provider (total less than 16 companies in). This means that ClearScale can perform a full cycle consultancy and service: from audits, system or software development to 24/7. You can read more about us on the company page - Managed Services.

Since the very foundation of the company, we work 100% remotely from various cities and countries. We work on a high trust basis, therefore we do not monitor our employees via taking screen captures, webcams or log keyboard typing, as many other companies do. The professional reputation of our employees is of the highest value.

Job Description

The successful candidate will work closely with IT technical areas and process owners in order to gather requirements and develop, execute and troubleshoot monitoring solutions:

• You will be collaborating with support engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions.
• You will be designing, developing and deploying monitoring solutions.
• You will be owning the monitoring solution that is used on 25+ customers as an internal product, ensure it addresses all the customer and internal needs, is secure, up to date and at its max performance.
• You will be regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
• You will need to have visibility on the overall monitoring toolset market, look at other monitoring providers and ensure all the best practices are adopted in ClearScale Managed Services.

Key information about the role

Help AWS Cloud Engineers with their main core toolset: cloud platform monitoring:

- DevOps field: python - scripts writing (boto3)

- DevOps field: IaC, IaS, AWS environment and services, application services maintaining

- Monitoring field: Zabbix + almost all AWS resources + NewRelic and DataDog

Requirements

• Experience in Amazon Web Services (key services)
• Deep experience with Zabbix, Grafana and the likes
• Ability to learn quickly
• Previously worked with monitoring tools rollout, migration and configuration
• Ability to create triggers and reconfigure them
• Ability to create instructions/documentation

Nice to have

• Used to work with DataDog, AppDynamics or NewRelic
• Script development (Python / Ruby)
• Custom metrics development
• Dashboard configuration / development / creation
• Technical Support Experience
• Product rollout/ownership

What we offer

# 1 Fair wage

• Fixed hourly rate in USD
• Full-time, 40 hours per week contract. It’s your main and permanent place of work, not a freelance job
• Payments every 2 weeks
• Annual Hourly Rate Review: received client's appreciation, obtained an AWS certificate, saved the world? The reward is based on facts, not on a personal attitude
• Reference program: many engineers joined the team by the recommendation of their friends and former colleagues and we have a reward for this

# 2 Independence

• From the office location or office conditions because it's only up to you where you want to work from - home, office, co-working or outdoors in the woods. The only requirement - fast and reliable internet. At the same time, our engineers do not work evenings or weekends: we focus on your local timezone
• From any annoyance or big team buzz - we are a community of professional engineers, valuing each others' time and effort
• From corruption and bureaucracy - we operate in an honest and competitive environment and we are one of AWS's top 10 key partners.

# 3 Professional Development

• Work with innovative Silicon Valley companies and traditional American companies at the cutting edge of digital transformation
• We work with the newest technologies in AWS cloud and open-source tools, Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart, Slack
• Constant practice at writing and speaking in English
• The team which is willing to share its experience
• Paid AWS certification: we provide training material, paid time off and the examination itself
• Horizontal and vertical career growth - are you ready to be greater, faster, stronger? We keep growing and people keep growing with us :)