Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Catena Media, you are responsible for ensuring that our microservices, websites and CDN services are lightning-fast, resilient, scalable and efficient with stellar uptime records. Your focus will be the constant strategic improvement of our health, performance and reliability in our microservices, websites, web servers and CDNs. You are passionate about automation and improving Catena’s technical operations best practices and processes. You will be working closely with our Enterprise Architect to collaborate on the design and drive the implementation of new technologies and stacks whilst collaborating with various Technical teams. You will also be acting as a mentor for the DevOps Team and you will be working closely with the DevOps Team Lead to effectively target strategically the biggest wins for the team.

To ensure that our microservices, websites, and CDN services are lightning-fast, resilient, scalable, and efficient with stellar uptime records.

YOUR CHALLENGE:

• You act as a subject matter expert on our microservices, databases and sites ensuring they are resilient, secure and scalable
• Drive performance changes and can challenge the status quo and continuously find ways of how things can be done better.
• You create automatic problem detection and resolution procedures
• You are keen to troubleshoot issues across the entire stack be it low system level or application level.
• Working closely with our development & architecture teams and making sure changes are continuously being built, tested, and deployed in the most efficient and scalable manner possible.
• You strive to drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines and servicesHave a mentality that evangelizes an automation first approach and are always looking at ways of automating repetitive tasks.
• Manage timely resolution of all critical and/or complex problems meeting SLA requirements
• You collaborate with stakeholders to serve, observe, own, and solve problems through innovation, thus increasing the efficiency of our production deployments and in turn also reducing friction with production deployments with the ultimate goal of increasing or sustaining our availability
• Develop, configure and optimize service and application monitoring
• You are constantly mentoring and coaching other members of your team
• Other ad-hoc duties as requested

TO DO IT, YOU WILL NEED:

• You are keen on efficiency and take performance & scalability very seriously
• You naturally have a flair for system design and always ensure systems are structured, secure and scalable
• You are a natural mentor, you enjoy mentoring Engineers and explaining
• Able to quickly assess and address problems and differentiate between root cause and the effects of the root cause.
• You are passionate about automation and are very comfortable with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Terraform
• Passionate about containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and are very comfortable in using them
• Have experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure & GCP
• Comfortable with CI / CD pipelines and have managed integrated workflows using tools such as Jenkins & Git
• You have profound experience with Linux-based operating systems & LAMP/LEMP stacks
• Comfortable with the TCP & UDP networking stacks
• You are an enthusiast for optimum performance within the use of the HTTP Protocol
• Comfortable with Monitoring and Alerting tools such as Prometheus & Grafana, Dynatrace, Pingdom & OpsGenie and treat this as a first-class citizen
• Good understanding of Database Administration (MySQL, MongoDB)Experience in one or more of the following: Python, Go, Perl, Ruby, shell scripting. Python being favored
• To be comfortable working on an on-call basis