DevOps Engineer - Night Shift
Aylo Careers
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About the position
Established in 2004, we are a tech pioneer offering world-class adult entertainment and games on some of the internet’s safest and most popular platforms. With the support of an international team of dynamic and collaborative innovators, we are on a mission to enable safe user experiences and empower our communities by celebrating diversity, inclusion, and expression — all while maintaining robust trust-and-safety protocols. We embrace the best of both worlds! Local talent can thrive in our collaborative office space with the flexibility of a hybrid work environment, while remote team members play an integral role in shaping our dynamic culture from afar. We have offices in Montreal (Quebec), Austin (Texas) and Nicosia (Cyprus). A select number of positions require full-time in office attendance. As a Sr DevOps within a fast pace high traffic environment, you will be responsible to support and improve a production and development infrastructure for many development teams having complex and industry leading methodologies and technologies. In this role you will be exposed to adult content.
Responsibilities
• Support and improve many hybrid production infrastructure environments for more than 15 development teams handling 100+ products, 10K+ domains and Billions of hits day.
• Help developers solve complex technical problems for multiple stacks and environments.
• Architect and plan improvements of a multi-datacenter development environment.
• Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping.
• Advocate and help development teams to migrate their services to more automated and elastic infrastructures leveraging best-of-breed technology (Cloud, Kubernetes, Serverless, etc.)
• Documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics for all our environments and services.
• Promote and implement proper CICD strategies and practices.
• Help develop and ameliorate critical cloud-based shared services serving many Products.
• Support and augment the coverage of our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setup.
• Mentoring junior DevOps in gaining experience and follow best practices.
Requirements
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role
• A love for making things efficient and reliable
• Experience working as DevOps or Systems Administrator working with Linux environments for several years
• Understanding of scalability patterns applied to infrastructure architecture for high traffic systems
• Great knowledge about the 3 major Cloud providers offering and real experiences with at least one
• Familiarity provisioning servers, virtual machines, and services with VMWare or equivalent
• Able and willing to help developers debugging intricate issues
• Not afraid of the command line, scripting and configuring applications such as Web Server, Load Balancers, etc.
• Experience with managing highly available DB clusters and cache systems
• Good understanding of networking and infrastructure setup in a web hosting/delivery environment (DNS, HTTPS, WAF)
• Able to debug and code (in Python preferably)
• Good understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery models and best practices
• Kubernetes experience
• Familiarity with configuration management and/or orchestration tool such as Ansible
• Knowledge of monitoring processes and tools
• Self-sufficient, excellent communication and great time management skills
Nice-to-haves
• Advanced experience with ElasticSearch
• Advanced experience with Percona Server for MySQL
• Experience managing Gitlab server instances
• Having deployed applications on Kubernetes on all major cloud providers
• Professional context switcher
• Commandlinefu
• Natural leadership


