TechOps Engineer - remote

Virtasant Inc
Posted 3 years ago
Stack Overflow

Virtasant is a global cloud services provider with industry-leading technology, capabilities, and people with more than a decade of experience. One of our major offerings is Cloud Cost Optimization (CO) platform, which is the industry-leading methodology and software to track and optimize spend on major cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure. We've had successful use-cases where we reduced cost by almost 70% unlocking hundreds of millions of dollars for our customers to reinvest in other projects.

This role requires an ambitious engineer willing to work on challenges and most importantly not being afraid of suggesting initiatives and delivering on them.

We are looking for a long-term partnership. However, even if you stay with us for only a year, you'll definitely grow your expertise 3x.

Responsibilities

  • Building and setting up new monitoring tools.
  • Being responsible for uptime and reliability of applications and infrastructure.
  • Working with DevOps and Engineering teams to implement best practices.
  • Being the first line of defense for incidents and taking preventative measures to avoid them.
  • Writing documentation for incident response as well as how-tos on tasks performed.
  • Automating repeatable tasks.

Requirements

  • At least five years of experience in DevOps, TechOps, SysOps, or SysAdmin, preferably in a senior role.
  • Must be comfortable programming with Python, specifically Boto/Boto3.
  • Experience with AWS and AWS CLI.
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch, Datadog, Grafana, etc.
  • Experience with Agile Methodologies, working remotely, and working in distributed and global teams.
  • Bonus points for:
    • Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes.)
    • Experience working with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL.
    • Experience with IAC tools (CloudFormation, Terraform.)

Benefits

  • A competitive compensation package and flexible time-off policy.
  • 100% remote position, even after the pandemic. Flexibility and autonomy.
  • No micromanagement. You're given a task and expected to deliver –we won't be breathing down your neck.
  • You will work with some of the most experienced/talented people in the cloud-native development industry;together you will be solving challenges that haven't been solved before.
  • Fully covered certification program for AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Within a year, you will 3x your expertise in cloud development.