What You’ll Do
- Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our clients around the world.
- Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritising effectively.
You’re the kind of person who:
- Truly understands the DevOps culture and practices;and can be champion for this within the organisation
- Builds solutions and does not become the solution (automation)*
- Thinks long-term incremental evolution, in sync with the industry practices and innovation
- Believes that building great software is more than just delivering working code, that other aspects such as reusability, testability, maintainability, security, and performance are just as important.
- Is constantly learning and expanding your skill sets on and off the job.
Key Responsibilities
- Promote infrastructure best practices like security, release management, monitoring
- Design infrastructure that is resilient, secure and highly available
- Facilitate the building and releasing of features by engineering team
- Take part in building a secure and highly available platform
- Build tools and processes that increase the productivity of other engineers and ensure an efficient release pipeline
- Support and collaborate with other engineers building on top of the platform
- Share responsibility for strategically scaling Andela’s internal systems
- Promote and nurture good team practices such as TDD, system security, code reviews, and pair programming
- Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches
We are interested in a candidate from any background as long as you have a solid understanding of core computer science principles. Here’s an abbreviated list of interesting technologies we currently use:
- Node.js with TypeScript
- Angular
- Postgres
- Platform: Google Cloud, Docker, NATS messaging system, Kubernetes,Terraform, Vault
Qualifications
Required:
- At least 5 years of software development experience
- Solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting
- Experience with system scripting languages like Bash, Python or Golang
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS, Docker Swarm
- Deeply familiar with concepts like DevOps, Continuous Delivery and TDD
- Experience with working with tools like Terraforms, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider
- Strong understanding of computer science principles
- Experience working in an agile environment (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
- Solid written and verbal communication
- Experience with system automation
- Experience with distributed systems
Preferable
- Experience building large-scale and highly available distributed systems