Lead DevOps

Line manager

Arseniy Konov, Operations Director.

Your outcomes

1. Build a team of A+ players in 3 months. You will need to work with the existing team as a mentor to make sure that your team is growing as well as better cover the team responsibility zone.
2. Lead the improvement and support of the product development infrastructure: Work in-office or remotely.

• Build metrics for CI/CD processes.
• Improve the reliability of the CI/CD pipeline.
• Find bottlenecks and optimize deployment and build time.
• Build quality gateways together with the QA lead.

3. Ensure uninterrupted operation of the company’s servers and applications (at least 99.9% availability).

Responsibilities

• Develop and automate of the existing CI/CD infrastructure on a complex project.
• Continuously improve their systems’ stability, robustness and load balancing.
• Support the migration of services to a Kubernetes cluster as well as its operation.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, devise solutions for these problems.
• Maintain and improve their monitoring and warning systems.
• Provide training, guidance, and mentorship to team members.
• Сollaborate with other team leads and departments (devs, QA, etc.) and help them solve problems.
• Provide administrative support to the company’s employees in terms of providing access.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience (leading role or co-pilot) with DevOps practices: building a complex CI/CD pipeline, implementing IaC, implementing various deployment strategies.
• Excellent knowledge and practical experience in deploying and managing virtual machines (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, etc.) as well as containers (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience in operational support of large scalable cloud applications (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Knowledge of Linux at the system administrator level.
• Experience in setting up Prometheus and Grafana monitoring systems will be a big plus.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Willingness to learn and gain experience working with the product and people.
• Written and spoken English will be a huge plus.
• Integrity, full commitment, and a strong sense of ownership.
• Readiness to work in a highly intense startup environment, requiring extreme focus, a sense of urgency, and persistence to break through.
• Openness to feedback and different opinions and ideas (growth-oriented mindset), easy-going attitude and high tolerance to cultural differences.

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

• The ongoing rise of the content economy is causing a massive shift in the language industry. All today’s megatrends — big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning — are converging in it at lightning speed. Smartcat’s disruptive business model taps into this $50b industry with a market network where buyers and suppliers connect, collaborate, and leverage company free-to-use workflow SaaS. The next decade will be the era of market networks and reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, and they’re pioneering this global transformation in all things language-related.
• You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work, and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas in the world.
• They are a global team of 100+ enthusiastic people, with hubs in Boston, Amsterdam, Limassol, Moscow, and Hong Kong — and their users and partners are scattered all around the globe. They’re eager to succeed and transform the world of language services for the better. They grow aggressively while preserving their culture of empathy. As diverse as they are, they love working and having fun together, and they’re sure you’ll love working with them too.
• Smartcat is backed by Matrix Partners, FJ Labs, and other top VC firms focusing on SaaS and marketplace startups (like HubSpot, Zendesk, Uber, Stripe, RigUp and Quora in their portfolios).

Additional benefits

• Employment in accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.
• Gym within walking distance of the workplace.
• Work in-office or remotely. The office is located just 7 minutes walk from the “Otradnoe” metro station.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Interesting tasks, the opportunity to work as part of their international team including more than 100+ professionals located around the world in places like Boston, Amsterdam, Limassol, Istanbul, and Moscow.
• They encourage ambitious thinking. Your professional growth and financial reward will depend solely on your efforts and abilities.