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Summary
Our client is looking for a Senior DevOps - Technical Lead - to join thier rapidly growing technology team. They will join a squad and support it with all DevOps needs by delivering complex tasks independently, helping them be more efficient by increasing automation and supporting the continuous integration and delivery pipeline.
Client Details
Montreal-based fashion ecommerce platform with global reach. Founded in 2003, our client is pacing the vanguard of directional retail with a mix of luxury, streetwear, and avant-garde labels.
Description
Product delivery
Delivery Pipeline
Ansible
Terraform
Microservices
Architecture
Summary
Our client is looking for a Senior DevOps - Technical Lead - to join thier rapidly growing technology team. They will join a squad and support it with all DevOps needs by delivering complex tasks independently, helping them be more efficient by increasing automation and supporting the continuous integration and delivery pipeline.
Client Details
Montreal-based fashion ecommerce platform with global reach. Founded in 2003, our client is pacing the vanguard of directional retail with a mix of luxury, streetwear, and avant-garde labels.
Description
Product delivery
- Anticipate the technical challenges the squad will face when delivering solutions and propose and implement technical solutions to those issues
- Write testable, efficient, and reusable code suitable for continuous integration and automated deployments, that respects best practices and SSENSE development standards
- Raise the bar for professional devops engineers, lead by example, and help others learn the craft through rigorous code reviews and coaching
- Enforce an effective and efficient scrum process where all team members work in the same direction
- Guide engineers, when needed, to break down user stories into manageable tasks
- Propose and drive a development process that emphasizes quality through code reviews, automated testing, continuous integration pipelines and documentation
- Develop a deep understanding of the team's roadmap and influence it with fact-based technical arguments
- Ensure proper documentation of team activities
- Ensure the demo of features developed are well prepared and presented to stakeholders
- Review Pull Requests with the objective to guide and upskill engineers on various technical topics
- Provide fact-based technical feedback on each squad member to managers as part of the evaluation cycle
- Be accountable for performance, reliability, scalability and resilience of complex and critical infrastructure components (web servers, data stores, hosted services, load balancers, etc.) through the proper use of replication, sharding, load balancing, monitoring, SLAs, alerting, and auto-scaling
- Be an active participant in the incident escalation chain and prompt resolution
- Upgrade and patch systems as required while ensuring availability of service
- Contribute to cross-squad initiatives, acting as a change agent amongst peers to foster adoption of new processes or technical solutions
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- A minimum of 8 years experience administrating Linux based environments (Red Hat, CentOS, Debian or Ubuntu)
- A minimum of 5 years experience with service-oriented architectures, software development and the development life cycle
- A minimum of 3 years experience practicing continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Proficiency in infrastructure automation frameworks in at least two of these technologies: Saltstack, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible or CFengine
- Expertise in infrastructure to support a microservices architecture
- Strong knowledge of caching technologies (Fastly, Redis, Varnish) with the ability to scale, shard and improve resiliency by leveraging advanced caching concepts
- Expertise in RDBMS and NoSQL databases at scale
- Proficiency in Cloud resources (AWS/Google Cloud/Azure) with the ability to operate them for the components owned, Certification preferred
- Ability to use containers and orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes, Giant Swarm, etc.)
- Proficiency in Git
- PTO
- 401K
- Standard Health Insurance
Recommended Skills
KubernetesDelivery Pipeline
Ansible
Terraform
Microservices
Architecture