DevOps Engineer Senior

DevOps Engineer - remote, Full time

Coincrowd is an innovative Fintech company. We offer a crypto platform for seamless payments, Crypto Vouchers, crypto trading, portfolio management, real time market data, breaking news and powerful analytics. Please visit https://coincrowd.com/ for more information.

Domain : Finance, Blockchain, Crypto

Job Description:

We're seeking a detail-oriented and proactive DevOps Engineer who has a strong background in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment, where they will have the opportunity to make substantial contributions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and maintain infrastructure on GCP.
• Automate infrastructure, application deployment, scaling, and management using Kubernetes and other similar tools.
• Collaborate with our software development team to ensure seamless deployment of software updates and enhancements.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability, and security.
• Implement DevOps best practices, such as IAC (Infrastructure as Code).

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role in software development and system administration.
• Strong experience with GCP (Google Cloud Platform), including Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, and other relevant GCP services.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with network protocols, firewalls, and VPN.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, etc.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools, like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in a team.

What We Offer:

In recognition of your valuable contributions, you will receive an equity-based compensation package. Join our dynamic and innovative team in the rapidly evolving fintech industry and play a key role in shaping the future of Coincrowd's success.

If you're ready to be at the forefront of the Payment Technology revolution and have the vision and experience to drive sales growth in the crypto space, please join us in our mission to redefine fintech at Coincrowd.

Responsibilities:

• Writing and maintaining the automation for deployments across various cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Bring a passion to stay on top of DevOps trends, experiment, and learn new CI/CD technologies.
• Creating the Architecture Diagrams and documentation for various pieces
• Build tools and automation to improve the system's observability, availability, reliability, performance/latency, monitoring, emergency response

Requirements:

• 3 - 5 years of professional experience as a DevOps / System Engineer.
• Strong knowledge in Systems Administration & troubleshooting skills with Linux.
• Experience with CI/CD best practices and tooling, preferably Jenkins, Circle CI.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP or private cloud environments.
• Experience and understanding of modern container orchestration, Well-versed with the containerised applications (Docker, Docker-compose, Docker-swarm, Kubernetes).
• Experience in Infrastructure as code development using Terraform.
• Basic Networking knowledge VLAN, Subnet, VPC, Webserver like Nginx, Apache.
• Experience in handling different SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo).
• Experience with GIT Version Control Software.
• Proficiency in any programming or scripting language such as Shell Script, Python, Golang.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a team environment.

• AWS / Kubernetes Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect / CKA.
• Setup and management of a Kubernetes cluster, including writing Docker files.
• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments.
• Knowledge in Microservice architecture.

Role and responsibilities

• Expertise in AWS (Most typical Services),Docker & Kubernetes.
• Strong Scripting knowledge, Strong Devops Automation, Good at Linux
• Hands on with CI/CD (CircleCI preferred but any CI/CD tool will do). Strong Understanding of GitHub
• Strong understanding of AWS networking and. Strong with Security & Certificates.

Nice-to-have skills

• Involved in Product Engineering

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline