Vurke Inc

DevOps and platform engineer (6 months + 6 months)

United States full-time Mid Salary not listed
full-time Mid level Technology & IT Curated
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About the role

Currently, the company is hiring DevOps and platform engineer to join their Application Observability team. This team plays a critical role in managing services within the Service Reliability and Observability (SRO) department
Responsibilities:

Defining and refining monitoring and alerting rules, both for the team and organisation-wide

Work together with other teams (Platform and Observability Backend) to enhance performance and fulfil user stories

Working on projects such as Grafanas migration from on-premises data centres to AWS by planning, defining requirements, supervising and implementing

Improving the deployment of services using Git workflows and ArgoCD

Proposing and validating performance and user experience improvements for team services

Addressing issues, implementing preventive measures and managing postmortems and related improvement tasks

Analysing performance, identifying anomalies and defining, documenting and implementing corrective measures

Ensuring compliance with the SLA

Requirements:

software engineer with a strong background in DevOps and platform engineering

A minimum of 3 years of experience as an infrastructure engineer or within the SRE domain

Proven experience in ownership roles, including defining strategies, deploying, monitoring, identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes

Strong sense of ownership with a proactive, can-do attitude

Hands-on experience with server-side technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, EKS or OpenShift

Expertise in managing observability and monitoring tools, such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, tracing tools and OpenTelemetry

Upper-Intermediate English skills

Ability to start ASAP (preferred)

Company offers:

6 months contract + an option for prolonging for an additional 6 months

An inspiring environment in a large IT organization

Work in an international team, which concentrates on innovative business-facing solutions

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I am interested in the DevOps and platform engineer (6 months + 6 months) role because I can bring practical experience in Devops, Platform and Engineer, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Vurke Inc needs from this hire.

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