Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

• Responsible for assisting the development team in the implementation, maintenance, evaluation, infrastructure automation, always ensuring the quality, performance and optimization of the infrastructure.
• Assist the development team with automated deployments, monitoring, response and support to incidents or other related events.
• Provide support and guidance to other people on your work team in any other task related to the position.
• Analysis and design Determine data storage, processing and data transmission needs according to the analyzed requirements.
• Design the infrastructure architecture together with the Software Architect assigned to the project.
• Design of deployment processes for CI/CD.
• Analyze the security requirements.
• Implementation and maintenance Analyze design defects to find their causes and correct them.
• Address the infrastructure needs of the development team.
• Stay up to date with industry tools, services and practices.
• Ensure the continuous improvement of processes and tasks under your responsibility.
• Quality assurance Run tests that come from the code.
• Automate necessary tasks to facilitate and streamline the work of the Quality Assurance (QA) team.
• Continuous assessment of compliance with industry best efficiency practices and safety standards.
• Delivery and documentation Define and document processes and standards for infrastructure management.
• Provide support to those who need it on the team and to the client.
• Support production monitoring staff (SRE’s) and any other technical counterpart of IT departments through documentation.
• Coordination Collaborate in the analysis of project requirements process.
• Coordinate the infrastructure implementation and automated process effort.
• Establish the process management of changing and resolving requests by other teams, areas and client.
• Be a technical reference for other people in the area.

Requirements

• Administration of Unix / Linux operating systems.
• Remote administration.
• Virtualization (containers and virtual machines).
• Best practices and mechanisms for deployment.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Configuration Management and Infrastructure Provisioning).
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Infrastructure and application monitoring.
• Logs management Incident management (resolution, analysis and providing documentation).
• Management of environment configuration and ambient secrets (e.g., development and production).
• Processes / background jobs / concurrency / messaging (queues, bus, subscriber).
• Scripting, Backups, Web Server Management, Proxies, Code Repositories.
• Documentation (design diagrams, README. md, wiki, etc).
• POSIX shell handling.
• Infrastructure configuration and orchestration tools: Terraform and Ansible.
• Source Control Tools: Git.
• Knowledge of any of the following tools for managing continuous integration processes: Travis, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitlabCI and Github Actions.
• Virtualization and Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose, Virtualbox, Packer and Qemu.
• Cloud computing: AWS or Azure / GCP as alternatives.
• Monitoring tools such as New Relic, Grafana y Cloudwatch.
• Logs administration tools such as ELK Stack.
• Sumo Logic y Cloudwatch Logs.
• Intermediate level: Operating systems (Windows and MacOS).
• Best practices for security, authentication and authorization OWASP Principles knowledge.
• Knowledge of network theory Bash, YAML, JSON.
• Some other scripting language like Ruby or Python.
• Desirable knowledge working with the following tools: Relational and non-relational data bases MySQL, Mongo, Postgres, Redis.
• Code management processes in repositories such as Git Flow and GitHub Flow.
• Audits and certifications (example SOC2) experience.
• Penetrating testing experience.
• Previous experience leading DevOps teams.
• Intermediate level: Microservices.
• Databases Administration.
• Multitenancy applications.
• HCL.
• SQL.
• Markdown (for documentation).
• Technician or bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science and related or equivalent level of knowledge demonstrated.
• Technical and conversational English level B2+ according to the Common European Framework.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Devops position.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• Grafana
• Jenkins
• Linux
• MacOS
• Microservices
• MySQL
• Packer
• Postgres
• Python
• Redis
• Ruby
• SQL
• Terraform
• Unix

Benefits

• 100% work remote from any part in Costa Rica.
• Digital Nomad.
• Monthly Internet connectivity allowance.
• Private health insurance for employees (90/10), 50% for beneficiaries (spouse and children).
• International Health Insurance.
• Marriage leave.
• Bereavement leave.
• Sick days.
• Ergonomic equipment.
• Educational assistance (courses, certifications, books).
• Life insurance for employees.
• $800 referral bonus.
• Personal support through our wellness department.
• Dental insurance.
• Optical insurance.
• Snacks and beverages if you want to work at the office.
• Free Parking.
• Meal allowance if you want to work at the office.
• Flex time.
• Our Career Development Manager ensures ongoing, tailored support for each employee’s growth and career progression.
• We reward the impact that goes beyond the expected — through “Good Vibes Great Impact”, our peer recognition program that celebrates meaningful contributions.
• Good times and a sense of community—that’s what our team building activities are all about.