Senior DevOps Engineer, Alpaca

• You have 5+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar role
• You have significant experience with Kubernetes at scale
• You have a deep understanding of modern containerization systems (we use Docker)
• You are familiar with modern distributed logging, monitoring, and metrics systems
• You have deep experience building and scaling continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• You have deep familiarity with Git for distributed source code version control
• You have excellent communication skills and value good documentation and writing
• Strong understanding and comfort with POSIX Operating Systems (Linux/BSD, etc)

Desirable

• Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will oversee the configuration, provisioning, and management of large cloud-hosted systems and microservices; including scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and recovery
• Design, maintain and expand our infrastructure defined in code (IaC)
• Oversee systems and resources for alerting, logging, backups, disaster recovery, and monitoring
• Help Alpaca scale by defining the direction of our infrastructure architecture
• Work alongside our engineering in building fault-tolerant & resilient microservices that are in line with our infrastructure's best practices
• Improve the performance and durability of our CI/CD pipelines
• Build out automated tooling to automate the provisioning of on-demand Kubernetes namespaces
• You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature