Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Built on the Shiji Platform—the only truly global hotel technology platform—Shiji’s cloud-based portfolio includes Property Management System, Point-of-Sale, guest engagement, distribution, payments, and data intelligence solutions for over 91,000 hotels worldwide, including the largest chains.

The best hotels run on Shiji — day and night.

What You Will Do:

• Design and implement new infrastructure components.
  

• Provide day-to-day support to developers.
  

• Create new application hosting environments.
  

• Maintain existing infrastructure.
  

• Support Continuous Integration and Deployment processes.

• Contribute to decisions on the team’s technological direction.
  

• Design cloud infrastructure, including complex solutions using Kubernetes.
  

• Build and implement infrastructure solutions.
  

• Ensure the security of the infrastructure.
  

• Mentor less experienced colleagues, both technically and non-technically.

• AWS
  

• Terraform
  

• Kubernetes
  

• Ansible
  

• Elasticsearch
  

• Kafka
  

• PostgreSQL
  

• VictoriaMetrics
  

• Hashicorp stack
  

• Gitlab
  

• Nexus

• We use Kanban to manage tasks.
  

• Our teamwork is based on Jira.
  

• We participate in daily, weekly and retro meetings.
  

• We use Gitlab as a code repository with a trunk-based development approach.
  

• We use Gitlab CI to automate our (and other's) jobs.
  

• We build environments in AWS with Terraform/Terragrunt.
  

• We develop deployment solutions for Kubernetes.
  

• We support local environments with Docker/docker-compose (for developers).
  

• We create libraries, tools and AWS Lambdas in Python.
  

• We create Docker images for automation and internal usage.
  

• We act using the "Everything as Code" philosophy.
  

• We do not release applications to the environments (there is a dedicated team of Release Managers).
  

• We use MS Teams to spread knowledge and participate in meetings.

• Our primary cloud service provider is AWS. We use most of the popular services including EC2, S3, RDS, SES, SNS and many more.
  

• We write all of our infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt.
  

• Our application that is written in .NET Core runs on top of Kubernetes cluster deployed in EKS.
  

• We have very large observability stack that includes collecting logs and metrics and visualizing it in Grafana and Kibana.
  

• DevOps Team are also responsible for managing GitLab, Jenkins and Nexus.
  

• We write our internal tool set using Python and Golang.

• Minimum 3 years of commercial experience with AWS and Kubernetes, with a strong understanding of key AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFront).
  

• At least 1 year of commercial experience using Terraform.
  

• Experience in managing and troubleshooting GNU/Linux operating systems.
  

• Experience with CI/CD processes, particularly using GitLab.
  

• Strong team player with a collaborative mindset.
  

• Openness to learning and adopting new technologies and paradigms.
  

• Ability to investigate, analyze information, and draw sound conclusions.
  

• Proactive mindset with a strong drive to solve challenges.
  

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• AWS and/or Kubernetes certification.