DevOps Engineer at Untapped Global

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Build, operate, and support highly available, fault tolerant, observable, performant, secure, and scalable platform tools and systems in a microservice environment that enable the Untapped engineering team to build best-in-class products
• Develop and maintain solutions which automate the configuration, provisioning, deployment, scaling, and monitoring of all of our systems
• Ensure high availability and acceptable levels of performance for our applications
• Work closely with QA and software developers to automate workflows, release high quality and well-tested software, and troubleshoot production issues
• Supervise Untapped cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Own the implementation of CI/CD tooling and best practices
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Serve as a subject matter expert on observability and monitoring of distributed systems

What you will bring to Untapped:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (CS) or related discipline – equivalent industry experience and demonstrable knowledge may be used to replace this requirement
• 3+ years managing the deployment and environment strategy around distributed, scalable microservices software products
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with containerization tools like Kubernetes, Fargate, Docker, etc.
• Experience doing command-line troubleshooting and scripting on Linux
• Proficiency with GitHub and GitOps
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript
• A strong understanding of networking concepts (virtual networking, subnets, routing, load balancing, DNS, etc.), networking security and Infrastructure as Code
• A strong understanding of the Agile software development cycle
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Experience being a part of a multicultural, distributed team, ideally with some experience in Africa
• A passion for innovation and creative problem solving, and a strong curiosity to learn new things and to experiment
• A can-do attitude and the flexibility required to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment