This job description sets out the scope of the role of DevOps Engineer at PROUDCLOUD, together with the main duties of the post at the date when it was completed. It does not include or define all tasks which the post holder may be expected to carry out. Duties may vary from time to time without changing the nature of the post or the level of responsibility. The post holder may also be required to carry out any other duties as required by their line manager.

REPORTING TO

The Development Director and Project Manager

LINE REPORTS

None

WORK SCHEDULE

Full-time,  40 Hours per week

LOCATION

Philippines or GMT+8, 100% Work-from-home. 

(planned M-W-F when return to physical workspace is possible in 2022)

(applicants from outside of Metro Manila welcome and encouraged). 

EXPERIENCE

at least 1 year

Under administrative supervision of the Development Director, this position is responsible for the deployment and maintenance of a cloud-based business intelligence SaaS solution.

The successful candidate must have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in developing, deploying and maintaining large Amazon AWS based SaaS solutions is also a must to be considered for this position.

Responsible for deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting and improving the systems that keep the backend infrastructure running smoothly. The role requires you to have hands-on technical experience and a can-do approach towards environment automation / management and continuous improvement.

The role will encompass the use of a broad range of AWS technologies, operating systems (specifically Linux) and application environments (Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Tensorflow), with an emphasis on the implementation of best practice cloud security principles.

Excellent English verbal and written communication skills are a huge plus.

• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud based production system, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems.
• Build, release and configuration management of production systems.
• Pre-production Acceptance Testing to help assure the quality of our products / services.
• System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains.
• Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.
• Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.
• Ensuring critical system security through the use of best in class cloud security solutions.

• AWS: 2+ years’ experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, RDS, ELB, EBD, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
• DevOps: Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
• Scripting Skills: Strong scripting (e.g. Ruby, Python, Bash, Perl) and automation skills.
• Operating Systems: Windows and Linux system administration.
• Monitoring Tools: Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g. Nagios).
• Problem Solving: Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.
  

• OO Programming Skills: Strong OO Programming skills (Ruby, Python, Javascript).
• DB Skills: Basic DB administration and data source experience (MySQL, PostGres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, Hadoop, etc.).
• Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile software development, project management methodologies.
• Version Control: Experience administrating version control systems such as GIT.
• Networking: Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
  

B.Sc. in Computer Science or other equivalent technical discipline is a plus, but not necessary.

• Professional commitment to high quality, and a passion for learning new skills.
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies.
• Strong problem solving skills, including providing simple solutions to complex situations.
• Must be a strong team player with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively
• in a geographically disperse working environment.

• Professional commitment to high quality, and a passion for learning new skills.
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies.
• Strong problem solving skills, including providing simple solutions to complex situations.
• Must be a strong team player with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively in a geographically disperse working environment.