Description
On behalf of Ciklum Digital, Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team on a full-time basis.
Project description:
The client is a German subscription-based language learning app and e-learning platform, available in various languages since January 2008. The language learning platform went online with community features as a free beta version in 2008.
Product Description:
The product is a subscription-based language learning app for web, iOS and Android. The product currently offers 15 different languages from seven display languages.
There are beginner, intermediate and grammar courses, vocabulary lessons, as well as courses with tongue-twisters, idioms, colloquialisms, and sayings. Courses for a given language may be aimed at a specific audience: for instance, English may be learned as "PR English" or "Marketing English."
Technology Stack: AWS, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, AWS ECS, Python
Responsibilities
- Developing multi-discipline technology-focused strategies and solution roadmaps to execute Amazon Web Service (AWS) solutions for clients to help solve business needs and/or requirements
- Engaging as an advisor to the client around AWS solutions and earning their trust and respect. Providing expertise on aligning current trends in AWS technology market place
- Understanding many disciplines including application architecture, resiliency and DR, databases, virtualization, servers, storage, infrastructure as code and AWS cloud computing, along with the understanding of technology and industry trends
- Collaborating with the application developers to understand and setup tooling needed for Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment processes
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of AWS environment (4+ years of experience), especially S3, Lambda, Kinesis
- Familiarity with AWS ECS
- Expert knowledge of Terraform
- Experience working with Datadog
- 3+ years of experience with Python
- Good interpersonal skills
Experience with (at least one)
- Implementing complex CI deployment scenarios
- Automating a streaming pipeline with automatic recovery scenarios
- Managing complex access policies
- Implementing monitoring solutions
Desirable
- Experience with Snowflake and Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Personal skills
- Collaborative, willing to help, talkative, able to clearly express and discuss ideas
- A curious mind and willingness to work with clients in a consultative manner to find areas to improve
- Upper-Intermediate or Advanced English
- Good analytical skills
- Good team player, motivated to develop and solve complex tasks
- Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
- Strong attention to details and accuracy
What's in it for you
- A Centre of Excellence is ultimately a community that allows you to improve yourself and have fun. Our centers of excellence (CoE) bring together all Ciklumers from across the organization to share best practices, support, advice, industry knowledge and to create a strong community
- Close cooperation with client
- Dynamic and challenging tasks
- Ability to influence project technologies
- Projects from scratch
- Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills
- Continuous self-improvement