Knotch's DevOps Manager As Knotch’s DevOps Manager, you will be leading a team of high-performing engineers as well as an offshore team working across the entire platform to ensure its stability, security, reliability and scalability. This is a pivotal role that can make tremendous impact on how we grow as a company. Your DevOps efforts will help Knotch reach its highest level technologically;your keen sense of balance between best DevOps practices and managing business objectives is the key. You will work closely with and report directly to our VP of Engineering, Sekhar Vajjhala.
You'll be successful here if you possess
- Eight or more years of experience in DevOps
- Experience managing a team of three or more DevOps engineers on or offshore
- Cloud AWS experience with tools such as Docker, EC2, ECS, and Kubernetes
- Working knowledge of AWS configurations such as S3, EC2, and RDS, EBS, ELB, IAM, Route53, Cloudfront, Elasticache, and WAF
- Exposure to AWS toolkit solution including: AWS Lambda, Kinesis, CloudWatch, CloudFormation and SNS
- Demonstrated experience in AWS storage encryption, data at rest, and data in transit
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or similar technologies
- Hands on knowledge with Continuous Integration &Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes and tools like CircleCI or Jenkins
- Work history in assisting development teams to build and deploy micro services-based applications in public cloud with CI/CD tools and processes
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
You'll add value to Knotch by
- Ensuring production is running stable with high 9s availability
- Ensuring engineering scrum teams are productive with scalable and stable pre-production environments
- Working with cross-functional engineering and product leads
- Removing any unnecessary load to reduce costs for Knotch
- Remaining organized through diligent utilization of Jira and Confluence
- Providing support in Scrum ceremonies at the highest levels
- Running point during incidents being a partner with Incident Manager.
We also appreciate but don't require
- Experience with ReactJS, Ruby, Python 3, or similar languages
- Experience working with Elasticsearch or ELK