Middle DevOps Engineer (Core Team)

Ajax Systems is a Ukrainian success story that has grown into a global product. Ajax devices are trusted by more than 4.5 million end users and 330,000 PRO users in over 180 countries. The company provides comprehensive solutions to protect residential and commercial properties of all sizes. Today, Ajax portfolio includes 280 devices for intrusion protection, video surveillance, fire safety, and comfort and automation.

Ajax Systems, an international tech company and the largest manufacturer of security systems in Europe.

Our infrastructure is a part of the product that is invisible to the end user, but critical to the life of the entire system. The safety of our users and their property depends on our uptime. We are constantly developing our cloud solutions and this requires automating our infrastructure, testing and improving its fault tolerance. For this purpose we are looking for Middle DevOps Engineer.

The System Division develops the Ajax software ecosystem — including OS Malevich, the Video Management System, cloud infrastructure, and client applications. The team ensures the stable operation of all system components as a unified digital platform.

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer.
  

• Experience with managing Linux-based systems, TCP/IP networking.
  

• Experience with IaC and config management tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
  

• Experience writing code in one or more languages, such as Python, Bash, Groovy.
  

• Experience with AWS stack: VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, Elasticache, Route53, Lambda etc.
  

• Experience in creating continuous integration and continuous delivery CI/CD with Jenkins CI.
  

• Experience with git, Docker.
  
  

• Elasticsearch stack (self-managed).
  

• Kubernetes (AWS EKS) + Helm.
  

• Message brokers: NATS, Kafka.
  

• Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
  

• Hashicorp tools: Vault, Packer.
  

• Monitoring/Alerting: Datadog, OpsGenie.
  

• Others: Terragrunt, JVM, Gradle.
  
  

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  Proactively participate in the platform development:
  

- extend and support current CI/CD;

- provide cost optimization plans;

- migrate to new AWS architecture;

- build proactive monitoring;

- take part in migration to Kubernetes.

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  On-duty activities (once per ~1.5 months):
  

- grant access to different services;

- troubleshoot CI/CD failures;

- take part in an investigation on STAGE environments.

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  Availability is very important. Sometimes you will need to help with issues in production that are most critical (On-call duties).