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BackendCoatesgroup· Guangzhou

Operations Engineer

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Software Engineering
Purpose:
The Operations Engineer has expertise and experience in Operations or DevOps, and is responsible for either being assigned to a development squad for application infrastructure help/assistance or more broadly working on organisational infrastructure within the centralised Ops Team from a Deployment and Monitoring perspective 
 
Accountabilities:
  • Working alongside a DevOps culture 

  • Familiarity with DevOps principles - automation, CI/CD pipelines, collaboration, etc 

  • Research, analyse and find best practice solutions that align to the program needs 

  • Ability to work towards helping provide advice to clients and work alongside junior team members to help design improvements to the platform 

  • Managing and maintaining 100+ AWS instances across 50+ VPCs globally 

  • Managing a global fleet of tens of thousands of Linux powered IoT devices

  • Following system monitoring and responding to alerts to ensure system uptime

  • Identifying, investigating and analysing current business processes, procedures and work practices looking at new ways to incorporate into our products

  • Work with the team to proactively champion identifying & implementing new initiatives & solutions that enhance our cloud infrastructure

  • Comfortable with deployments to a wide range of devices in dev/uat and Prod environments

 
Qualifications and Experience​ :
  • Highly knowledgeable of AWS

  • Solid grasp of advanced containerization concepts including Docker

  • Creating training and user documentation and conducting formal training for more junior team members

  • Working with a hybrid software stack of microservices and serverless functions 

  • Strong capabilities in bash and python scripting 

  • Strong Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu) 

  • Automation and templating driven attitude with a good understanding of IaC (such as CloudFormation)

  • Experience in configuration management tools

  • Experience in monitoring and observability dashboard tools like SumoLogic, AWS CloudWatch

 
Capabilities​:
  • Communicates clearly and effectively, both written and verbally, when advising, setting expectations, or suggesting improvements.

  • Regularly speaks in public forums.

  • Mentors others through code reviews and pair programming.

  • Positive attitude to learning new things