Senior DevOps Engineer

**Company Description**
Hello, we are **Edify**, one of the highest-ranked IT companies in Costa Rica and Central America.

We're a consolidated technology services consulting firm specializing in education technology. We deliver unbelievably creative and rock-solid solutions for a wide range of clients, including major corporations, startups, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations.

We help our clients design, build and run some of the most interesting ventures in the industry while promoting a warm, friendly and cooperative culture. Work and life should definitely be balanced, so we're serious about cultivating a great work environment.

OBJECTIVE

Responsible for assisting the development team in the implementation, maintenance, evaluation, infrastructure automation, always ensuring the quality, performance and optimization of the infrastructure.

Assist the development team with automated deployments, monitoring, response and support to incidents or other related events. In addition, it provides support and guidance to other people on your work team in any other task related to the position.

ROLES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY FUNCTIONS:
Analysis and design
- Determine data storage, processing and data transmission needs according to the analyzed requirements.
- Design the infrastructure architecture together with the Software Architect assigned to the project.
- Design of deployment processes for CI/CD.
- Analyze the security requirements.

Implementation and maintenance
- Analysis design defects to find their causes and correct them.
- Address the infrastructure needs of the development team.
- Stay up to date with industry tools, services and practices.
- With supervision implement, best security practices.
- Ensure the continuous improvement of processes and tasks under your responsibility.

Quality assurance
- Run tests that come from the code.
- Automate necessary tasks to facilitate and streamline the work of the Quality Assurance (QA) team.
- Continuous assessment of compliance with industry best efficiency practices and safety standards.

Delivery and documentation
- Define and document processes and standards for infrastructure management.
- Provide support to those who need it on the team and to the client.
- Support production monitoring staff (SRE’s) and any other technical counterpart of IT departments through documentation.

Coordination
- Collaborate in the analysis of project requirements process.
- Coordinate the infrastructure implementation and automated process effort.

**Qualifications**
ACADEMIC TRAINING:

- Technician or bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science and related or equivalent level of knowledge demonstrated.

LANGUAGE:

- Technical and conversational English level B2+ according to the Common European Framework.

COMPETENCES
- Connection, vision, empowerment and initiative.

LABOUR EXPERIENCE:

- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Devops position.

Mandatory knowledge:

- Administration of Unix / Linux operating systems.
- Remote administration.
- Virtualization (containers and virtual machines).
- Best practices and mechanisms for deployment.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Configuration Management and Infrastructure Provisioning).
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
- Logs management
- Incident management (resolution, analysis and providing documentation).
- Processes / background jobs / concurrency / messaging (queues, bus, subscriber).
- Scripting, Backups, Web Server Management, Proxies, Code Repositories.
- Documentation (design diagrams, README. md, wiki, etc).
- POSIX shell handling.
- Infrastructure configuration and orchestration tools: Terraform and Ansible.
- Source Control Tools: Git.
- Knowledge of any of the following tools for managing continuous integration processes: Travis, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitlabCI and Github Actions.
- Virtualization and Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose, Virtualbox, Packer and Qemu.
- Cloud computing: AWS or Azure / GCP as alternatives.
- Monitoring tools such as New Relic, Grafana y Cloudwatch.
- Logs administration tools such as ELK Stack. Sumo Logic y Cloudwatch Logs.
- Intermediate level:

- Operating systems (Windows and MacOS).
- Best practices for security, authentication and authorization
- OWASP Principles knowledge.
- Knowledge of network theory
- Bash, YAML, JSON.
- Some other scripting language like Ruby or Python.

Desirable knowledge working with the following tools:

- Relational and non-relational data bases MySQL, Mongo, Postgres, Redis.
- Code management processes in repositories such as Git Flow and GitHub Flow.
- Audits and certifications (example SOC2) experience.
- Penetrating testing experience.
- Previous experience leading DevOps teams.
- Logic and Cloudwatch Logs.
- Intermediate level:

- Microservices.
- Databases Administration.
- HCL.
- SQL.
- Markdown (for documentation).
**Additional Information**

**Benefits**:

- 100% work remote fro