Senior DevOps Engineer

About us

HomeBuddy is an online home improvement platform connecting homeowners with local, verified contractors in the U.S.

Already a well-established, successful firm, HomeBuddy is growing at a fast pace and is determined to achieve even more explosive growth. To support this ambitious vision, we are actively developing our team of smart, self-starting and entrepreneurial individuals in many professional categories.

HomeBuddy offers a remote and flexible work environment, competitive compensation, attractive benefits and a great opportunity to work on interesting, challenging and constantly evolving projects. As a member of the HomeBuddy team, you will be part of an innovative and dynamic environment where your ideas and efforts will be valued and make a significant impact. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with talented professionals from diverse backgrounds, contributing to the growth and success of the company.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, support, configuration, and optimization of infrastructure.
• Centralized management of product segments, staging, development, and testing.
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Setting up and support of monitoring systems.
• Process automation.
• Description of infrastructure as a code.
• Implementation of best practices and solutions for interaction between developers and the system.
• Preparation of technical documentation for implementation.
• Help with a migration to AWS.

About you

• Advanced user of Linux administration.
• Experience with web servers (Nginx, HAProxy, or Traefik).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (preferably Bitbucket or Jenkins).
• Containerization/virtualization (Docker).
• Experience with Terraform & Ansible.
• Experience with monitoring and logging systems.
• Git version control system.
• Experience with AWS.
• A very good level of English, at least upper-Intermediate. Fluent Russian is essential.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of network technologies such as TCP/UDP, NAT, Firewall, VPN.
• Experience with queue brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (configuration replication, backup & restoring, performance query optimization).
• Experience in building highly available and scalable services, understanding of microservice architecture.
• Control of the organization and impact assessment of the measures taken and information protection facilities.
• Experience as a Software Developer or Engineer, proficiency in languages such as JavaScript, PHP, Python.
• Familiarity with Agile workflow methodologies like Scrum/Kanban.

What we offer

We have different perks and benefits, but we also can offer you a supportive work environment powered by a fantastic team!

• Competitive compensation according to your skills, experience, and professional accomplishments.
• Generous paid vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays.
• 100% remote work, allowing working and traveling.
• Flexible work hours, when it is convenient to plan your working and personal time.
• Work in one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing industries.
• Ambitious and challenging tasks with a high degree of responsibility and independence.
• Multicultural environment.
• Supportive, friendly, and professional team, which you can always rely on.
• An allowance program for compensation of expenses for fitness activities and the purchase of technical equipment.
• Paid training (school, events, conferences).

Hiring process

• Application/­resumé review by the Hiring Team.
• Introductory online interview with HR.
• Technical interview or interview with a Hiring Manager.
• Final interview with the Hiring Team.
• Offer.
• Onboarding.

If this sounds like you, we should talk!