Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote

Overview

Join our DeviantArt team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and play a pivotal role in maintaining and architecting a robust infrastructure that powers one of the largest online art communities. You'll be at the forefront of ensuring our platform's high availability, performance, and security, handling over 1.5 billion monthly page views.

In Short

• Architect and maintain a highly available infrastructure focused on DDOS mitigation, autoscaling, self-healing, site performance, and cost optimization.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, responding to outages or performance issues.
• Maintain and develop a developer environment and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using configuration management tools.
• Optimize and support sharded MySQL databases.
• Regularly update system components to avoid security issues.
• Work with a fully remote and distributed team.
• Collaborate effectively across teams.
• Make decisions and execute independently with attention to detail.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Platform Engineer.
• Excellent technical analytical skills for troubleshooting and implementing solutions.
• Exceptional command line Linux skills, with proficiency in Bash and Python.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Experience with Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with sharded MySQL database clusters.
• Excellent communication skills in fluent English.
• Ability to work flexibly and manage shifting priorities.

Benefits

• Work in a fun and challenging environment.
• Make decisions as a team about adopting newer technologies.
• Participate in a vibrant online community.