DevOps Engineer at Savannah Informatics

Responsibilities 

The ideal candidate for this position will be working on the following:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE):

• Implement and maintain best practices for ensuring the reliability and availability of web applications and services.
•  Implement observability tools, perform advanced debugging, and optimise multi-cloud infrastructures.
• Set up and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) working with cross-functional teams to develop the documentation
• Lead incident management, post-incident reviews, and root cause analysis to continuously improve system reliability and develop strategies to prevent future occurrences.
• Monitor and update reliability processes during the systems or products’ entire lifecycle for its adherence, improvement and minimizing wastage
• Infrastructure:
• Build, implement and maintain scalable, resilient cloud-based infrastructure using tools like Terraform and Ansible to optimize deployment workflows.
• Scale and optimize resources across multi-cloud environments, ensuring cost-efficiency and performance.
• Design robust CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
• Participate in the design, implementation, and optimization of infrastructure, emphasizing scalability, security, and performance.
• Tackles complex system-level challenges, anticipates future challenges and devise innovative solutions, and drive continuous improvement in infrastructure and processes.

Developer Experience:

• Support and enhance the development process by providing tools and practices that improve developer productivity.
• Collaborate with software development teams to set up and streamline the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipeline.
• Create and maintain development environments, including development, staging, and production environments.
• Have the expertise and assist developers in debugging, performance optimization, and troubleshooting issues in the development lifecycle.
• Implement advanced incident management, post-incident reviews, and proactive improvements to reduce downtime and enhance system reliability.

Tech Financial Operations:

• Manage and optimise technology-related financial aspects, including budgeting, cost tracking, and cost control.
• Implement and monitor cost-effective solutions for infrastructure and services, optimizing cloud resources.
• Work closely with finance and procurement teams to ensure efficient allocation of technology-related budgets.
• Implement cost allocation models to attribute technology expenses accurately.
• Manage periodic reporting on the FIn Ops progress to the management using advanced cost allocation models and tools to monitor and control technology-related expenses.
• Own strategic initiatives, such as cost optimisation, system reliability, and fostering a culture of observability.
•  Leadership and Mentorship
• Actively mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices, technical challenges, and process improvements.
• Align technical operations with business goalsby working with cross-functional teams, to achieve overall success 

Skills

• The ideal candidate for this position will have the following:
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems
• The candidate must have strong skills in Operating Systems(Linux/Ubuntu/Debian), understand their way around a UNIX shell and believe that where there is a shell, there is a way.
• Good computer network skills - He/She/They understands how networks work, the OSI model and protocols including TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP(s), DNS, DHCP, SMTP etc.