Devops Engineer (Remote)

We are first and foremost a great team full of ambitious and proactive individuals whose goal is to become the best professionals they can be and make Digital Silk a globally renowned digital agency. Our quest for excellence has resulted in our company’s growth and continuous need for outstanding team members.

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer with expertise in:

1. Adopting best practices in integration, deployment (CI/CD) and automation
2. Process of proactive monitoring, prevention and resolving of issues
3. Ongoing optimization of various deployment workflows

Digital Silk is built upon the principles of self-betterment, excellence, proactivity, and teamwork. If you share our passion and values, and want to be challenged and thrive in your career, then you’ll fit right in.

Digital Silk offers competitive salaries, yearly growth opportunities AND company shares for all team members.

This is for a full-time, remote-work-at-home position as our headquarters are in the US. We do require team members to work 7am to 4pm EST (with breaks) as our clients are in the US.

What we offer at Digital Silk:

· A work culture focused on mutual success and continuous growth

· Competitive pay and scheduled yearly raises

· Shares in the company – share in profit upon company sale

· Challenging projects and opportunity to work with great team members

· Job stability in case of illness, Covid changes, and personal problems

· Work-from-home opportunity

· 4 weeks paid time off

Key Responsibilities:

1. Develop and oversee a robust DevOps Strategy aligned with company goals
2. Manage, mentor and grow team capacities of DevOps engineers providing guidance, setting goals and fostering a collaborative team environment
3. Conduct performance reviews, facilitate professional development and assure high team moral
4. Ensure development and implementation of reliable and scalable automation processes – ensure reliability through access controls, backups, and firewalls
5. Oversee the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines to ensure a seamless flow from development to production.
6. Optimize resource allocation to ensure efficient project execution
7. Ensure all DevOps processes adhere to security regulations and company policies
8. Implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify issues. Lead the troubleshooting and resolution of system issues in a timely manner.
9. Collaborate with development and other production teams to enhance development workflow
10. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry standards, trends and best practices
11. Set up production servers to ensure smooth deployment and best practices
12. Participate in client calls whenever DevOps expertise is required

Requirements Experience:

1. Minimum 7 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, System Administrator, Network Administrator, or similar roles
2. At least 2-3 years in a managerial or team lead role within a DevOps context
3. Minimum 3 years of experience with Linux OS

Technical Skills:

1. Hands-on experience with virtual machines, containers, networks, and RBAC on Digital Ocean and AWS
2. Hands-on experience with Cloudflare services
3. Hands-on experience writing Terraform modules and Ansible roles/collections
4. Hands-on experience writing CI/CD pipelines for Drone CI
5. Experience with Prometheus monitoring system, Python, Bash scripting, Git, and Docker
6. Excellent English communication skills

Managerial Skills:

1. Strong leadership skills with a proven track record in managing technical teams.
2. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
3. Ability to delegate effectively and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
4. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think analytically.
5. Conflict resolution and negotiation skills.

We are a growing digital agency and are seeking to make IMMEDIATE hires.

Recruitment steps:

· Apply via LinkedIn

· Receive short questionnaire

· Send back answers + CV

· Have a short intro call with our Recruitment team

· Technical Task

· Technical Interview

· Get introduced to our CEO

· Get feedback

We kindly ask for your CV and all correspondence to be in English.