For a purpose of automation of the development operations in several revolutionary software products, we are looking for a DevOps engineer, who loves to make things work, bits and bytes flying in right directions and in a right way :)

Responsibilities: 

Support several small and mid size development teams with multiple AWS accounts and instances in different regions:

• Set up and configure EC2 Linux machines and related packages (Docker, Java, PHP, node.js, Databases, etc.)
• Set up virtual private network and secure access in AWS
• Set up monitoring and resolve incidents (out of space, out of memory, certificates expiration, etc.)
• Set up and manage products AWS (Amazon ES, EC2, ELB, S3, EMR, etc.)
• Write bash scripts and automate infrastructure routine actions
• Use (where possible) Infrastructure as a Code tools (AWS Cloud​Formation, Terraform, etc.)
• Set up and maintain CI/CD tools (Jenkins, etc)

AWS accounts cost optimization:

• Always think how to solve the task in the most cost-efficient way.
• Propose actions to reduce infrastructure cost for existing accounts and implement them once it's approved
• Follow all new AWS product announcements and suggest improvements to projects' infrastructures.
• Study AWS products and related technologies (monitoring tools, log analysis tools, data bases, etc) to be able to help the team with configuration and improvements
• Monitor and keep tracking on abnormal cost spikes to answer the question why it happened and what could be done to avoid that in future

Communication:

• On projects with a dedicated DevOps position (full -time or part-time) timely communicate with customer in emails in English.
• In case of project infrastructure incident (going on or just resolved) participate in conf calls with customer biz or tech team.
• Send planned maintenance email notifications.
• Send emails on critical monitoring incidents' fix status (sometimes with the investigated possible reason).
• Communicate with Videal team, pm: questions regarding modules requirements specification, get product knowledgebase, organization questions

Process:

• Plan own work and maintenance time slots to avoid US business time over lapses (US safe hours 11 - 14 in summer and 10 - 13 in winter) as well as own/team member’s overtimes (normal office hours: 09-00(11-00) - 18-00(21-00), 1-2 hour for break/lunch).
• Submit daily time reports in Redmine on the work done - spent hours for each task and comments (where possible).
• Give a feedback/propositions regarding new ideas and possible improvements of product/process to Videal PM/techlead.

Soft skills:

We seek for a mirror mind people who will share our mission, philosophy, values and will continue to grow along with our company for long term period. Candidate should be a process-oriented, strong logical thinking, high accuracy person with a pro-active mindset, a desire and ability of permanent professional growth, also with ability to analyze, process and classify an information and pay attention to details. The candidate should have at least intermediate speaking/writing English level with the abilities to present his own ideas and opinion, give arguments, listen and understand the requirements and needs of a client correctly during the communication.

Professional skills:

Required:

• Perfect knowledge of Linux based OS and network protocols (iptables, ssh, HTTP, FTP, mail, LDAP, Samba, etc)
• Perfect knowledge of AWS products (Amazon ES, EC2, VPC, VPN/ssh tunnel, ELB, S3, EMR, IAM, and Security) and infrastructure
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with any of the following monitoring tools: DataDog, Nagios, CloudWatch, Zabbix, Ganglia, etc.
• Ability to write bash scripts and automate infrastructure routine actions, writing from scratch and modifying config files

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of any programming language, preferably Java.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash.
• Experience with big data projects.
• Knowledge of any Infrastructure as a Code tools (AWS Cloud​Formation, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience with log analysis tools (Splunk, Papertrail, etc.)
• Good understanding of managed and not managed NoSQL databases and key-value storages
• Knowledge of Jenkins or any other CI/CD tools
• Knowledge of Azure and MS Server, IIS, MS SQL Server
• Experience of the Hadoop related stack (HDFS, YARN, HBase, Spark)
• Experience with Ansible

Conditions of work:

Corporate laptop for remote work and fully equipped desk including snacks and drinks in our engineering office on 38th floor of Warsaw Spire building with breathtaking panoramic views to city center.

Super Bonuses:

• Opportunity to become a part of our DREAM TEAM, enjoy the atmosphere and grow together with the company building something very huge.
• Participation in the most revolutionary projects in AI and Big Data technology niches;
• Competitive salary, personal bonuses for excellent delivery and permanent professional growth.
• Paid sick leave and vacation.
• Corporate education programs, certification, and participation in the corporate knowledge sharing process.

Please send your CV marked "DevOps engineer" in the subject via e-mail: careers@videal.net and start your message from the text: "This is a nice start"