Senior DevOps Engineer, Kobo
5 month contract
Digital bookseller
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Digital bookseller
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To bring the power of reading to the world.
Role
Who you are
- Kubernetes Expertise: Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, deployment, and cluster management
- On-Premises Infrastructure: Experience with on-premises asset management and cloud migration
- Apache Airflow: Proficiency in workflow orchestration and data pipeline management
- Helm Charts: Experience with Kubernetes package management and application deployment
- ArgoCD: Knowledge of GitOps practices and continuous deployment automation
- Infrastructure Migration: Proven experience migrating legacy systems to modern cloud platforms
- Code Optimization: Ability to analyze, modernize, and optimize legacy codebases for Performance
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Experience with cloud-native messaging and streaming solutions
- Datadog Monitoring: Proficiency in implementing comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems
- GCP Observability: Knowledge of Google Cloud monitoring, logging, and tracing services
- Strong programming skills in Python and other relevant languages
- Proficiency in GCP services, including Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and other relevant services
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles and best practices
- Experience with CI/CD tools and techniques
- Experience with performance monitoring and alerting systems
Desirable
- Experience with infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with distributed processing (e.g. Ray, Dask, asyncio)
- Experience with streaming systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.)
- Knowledge of security best practices for cloud infrastructure
- Experience with cost optimization strategies for cloud resources
- Experience with VertexAI in GCP
What the job involves
- Rakuten Kobo Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer (5 month contract) to join our data science and engineering team and help establish a robust and automated infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The goal is to modernize legacy systems, migrate on premises infrastructure to cloud-native solutions and implement comprehensive monitoring and observability practices. The focus for this DevOps engineer is to help accelerate the adoption of DevOps best practices and establish automated infrastructure pipelines on GCP, enabling efficient and reliable system operations, deployment and monitoring
Our take
Long-form content is having a resurgence. That’s great news for the e-reader industry, of which Rakuten’s Kobo battles with Amazon’s Kindle for ownership.
The e-reader giant has changed tack in recent years to pursue growth via integrations and partnerships. A notable example is its native device integration with Pocket, a wishlist app loved by millions of readers.
The company is hoping that these partnerships and product improvements will allow it to finally break the US market where it most struggles for market share with Kindle.
Amazon has consistently shown its willingness to drop prices to protect its position in any market it plays in. That means that Kobo will have to demonstrate true product superiority to make a dent while protecting its margins.
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Company
Company benefits
- 4-day summer holiday weekends
- Competitive health benefits
- Commuting allowance
- Salary, bonus & stock options
- Global projects & opportunities
- Dog-friendly
- Happy Hour
- Casual dress
- Maternity/parental leave top-up
- Free eReader
- Fitness allowance & gym discount
- Recognition programs
- Buddy program
- Training & development opportunities
- Healthy snacks
- Open concept
- Kobo Café
- Sports teams
Company HQ
Liberty Village, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Michael Tamblyn
(CEO)Part of the founding team of Kobo, Michael previously held the role of Chief Content Officer. Michael has also been the founding CEO of the supply chain agency, BookNet Canada and co-founded Canada’s first online bookstore, Bookshelf.ca, purchased by Indigo Books & Music in 1998.
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