About the team
They currently work with a development team of around 15 developers partly remote and partly from the office consisting of frontend developers,backend developer, Q&A’s, Devops and a product owner and scrum master. They would like to expand their remote team further and are looking for experienced Devops (remote). The team follows the scrum-cycle and handels building new functionality, extending existing functionality, bugfixing, refactoring and redesign.
The team is coached by a CTO with long experience in leading remote teams and scaling platforms.

About you
To be able to grow fast, new features needs to be implemented and different stakeholders will be involved. The architecture will depend heavily on Cloud tech and Kubernetes to scale up.

In your position as experienced DevOps Engineer, you will manage and optimise the following tasks/functionalities:

• Facilitate and guard their further growth in the cloud; 
• Google Firebase cloud is our hosting environment for our Gatsby site. This needs to be manage and optimised.
• AWS is hosting  mostly Kubernetes, manage and optimise our Image warehouse and NIO.
• For Gatsby, Managing and optimising (free) Gatsby cloud setup.
• For Jenkings Managing and configuring build configuration and schedule.
• For GITHUB manage and optimise credentials, access, seats and functions.
• Install monitoring and performance culture: “SRE” mentality.

The company is growing fast. If you have what it takes we can offer you opportunities to be involved in the growth of the webshop. In short, a great opportunity to discover and develop your qualities!

For this role you can start immediately, fulltime on a remote basis.

Technology stack

• Use of Google Firebase and AWS
• Working with Docker and Kubernetes
• Microservice and Event Driven architecture
• Experienced with platforms with multi region setups
• Excellent knowledge of tooling involved to make CI/CD fly
• Version control: GIT
• Our dev team uses Scrum and Jira.

We are only interested in Devops who have the knowledge and necessary experience to help us grow. During the proces you have the opportunity to show your expertise via a challenge and get feedback on the work you delivered.

We are currently NOT open to candidates that donot match the requirements for example who are not skilled in Cloud technologies.

Soft skills
What is important besides your technical expertise is your soft skills:

• You are an active listener meaning you are familiar with asking questions to get to know what is required and needs to be delivered.
• You have good communication skills in English (orally and written).
• You are experienced in working remote for English speaking customers. You know you better communicate too much than too little, with your team, to deliver your part to make the platform a success for clients.
• You ask for help when you need it or discuss problems with your colleagues if you cannot solve them yourself.
• your working style is that you pay attention to details and work accurately also with high workloads. Everything you do, you test and check before you deliver for review.
• Further you are a person who has seniority and eager to learn and you take initiatives.
• You are a fast learner, curious and interested in performance improvement in cloud/software.

Your level of English conversation is intermediate+. This means you need to be able to discuss in English your ideas, proposals with the development team and stakeholders. If this is a problem for you, you are in English below the required level.

Finally you are a person who is curious and eager to learn and you take initiative. You are easy in connecting and collaborating with other team members.

Contract
3 month trial period (evaluation after 1st and end of 3rd month)
After trial period 1 month notice
1+ year contract (we are looking for fulltime hire for the long term

Contract is including 20 paid holidays, 5 paid sick leave days and free on official national holidays.

About TechTalent4Growth
TechTalent4Growth is helping small and medium sized companies grow by providing them with the European Top Tech talent. We search for experienced software developers in different countries. We have a human approach: we respect the individual and we search for qualities and competences to let people unlock their potential. When you are a company with available frontend developers for long term hire we invite you co contact us (Asian developers are excluded for this assignment).