Lead DevOps Community

Location: EU, Belarus, Georgia

Now we are looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Community who combines strong DevOps expertise with hands-on engineering experience and a passion for building, mentoring and growing a collaborative DevOps community across the company.

Responsibilities:

• Build a responsible and high-performing Ops and DevOps function in the company
• Ensure that all Ops and DevOps engineers are used effectively and perform strongly within their teams
• Organize and conduct regular knowledge-sharing activities, including trainings, workshops and master classes for DevOps engineers aсross the company
• Contribute to individual development plans and growth of community members, helping people develop their skills through mentoring and collaboration
• Drive adoption of best practices and technologies
• Take part in regular feedback and performance review sessions
• Help team leaders ensure the proper workload allocation for specialists of the appropriate level in RnD department
• Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform, Ansible
• Handle routine maintenance, upgrades, backup/recovery processes and disaster recovery planning for both cloud and on-premise environments
• Collaboration with software engineering teams to ensure smooth deployments and high system availability

Requirements:

• Strong people management skills and team leadership experience
• Experience in mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning
• Proficiency with Linux system administration
• Strong knowledge of Terraform and Ansible
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, firewalls, load balancers and DNS
• Broad and practical understanding of security across systems, with the ability to quickly grasp how new technologies work
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer/Network Engineering or a closely related technical field

Would be nice if you have:

• Experience in management of on-premise, hybrid environments, bare-metal or cloud infrastructure
• Experience in managing self hosted Kubernetes
• Ability to write new or improve/fix existing scripts written in various languages such as Python, Groovy, Ruby, Go, Bash

Our technology stack:

Kubernetes, Cassandra, Pulsar, ZooKeeper, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, OpenSearch, Kafka, Druid, NGINX, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab, EC2, EKS, ECR, S3, SES, Route 53