Senior DevOps Engineer

Title: Senior Devops Engineer

Location: Bulgaria (Remote)-- The position is fully remote but occasionally visit to office in Sofia will be required.

Employment Contract.

Job Description:

Collaborate with Developer, Support, and other team members in developing, maintaining, supporting, and operating the API Gateway (powered by Kong) and Messaging platform (powered by Solace PubSub+)

Integrate the API and Messaging platform with various external systems

Develop, maintain, and operate tools and façade services that orchestrate backend calls

Develop, maintain, and deploy infrastructure as code using Terraform

Develop, maintain, operate and support CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab for automating various tasks and deploying services on Kubernetes clusters

Operate services on Kubernetes in GCP, AWS and Alibaba

Maintain and operate the Developer Portal based on Drupal

Participate in the development of API Gateways based on Kubernetes

Participate in the creation, publishing, and maintenance of Docker images

Contribute to support documents, how-to’s and other technical articles in English

Desired skills/areas of proficiency:

B.Sc. or MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field

Strong technical background

Strong, hands-on experience of both development and operations is a must

Strong interpersonal, and communication skills and high attention to detail.

Strong knowledge in cloud computing platform such as GCP, AWS and Alibaba

Strong knowledge of Terraform

Strong knowledge of Kubernetes

Experience with Kong Gateway is a definite plus

Experience with Solace PubSub+ is a definite plus

Experience with other Messaging brokers (e.g. Apache MQ, Kafka, Pulsar, JMS) is a plus

Experience with Anthos is a plus

Experience with Istio and Envoy is a plus

Experience in software architecture and development lifecycle

Hands on experience with technology concepts such as APIs, Events, micro-services, Cloud hosting, CRM (e.g. Salesforce platform), ERP (e.g. SAP)

Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation and organizational skills

Ability to communicate with technical and business teams (all levels)

Good knowledge of service delivery management field

Experience with Atlassian Suite mainly Confluence and Jira

Good knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban

Fluent English required, other languages are a plus (e.g. French, Italian, Chinese)

Willingness & ability to travel

Ability to work in a complex, fast-paced, distributed environment with high expectations

Other desired skills/areas of proficiency:

System: Linux,

Cloud: AWS, GCP, Alibaba

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Anthos, Istio, Envoy

Languages: Golang, Java, Bash, JavaScript, Python

Formats: JSON, XML

Monitoring: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

Automation: GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, Maven, Hashicorp Vault

SCM: Git

API: OpenAPI, REST, GraphQL, Kong, OData, Async API

EDA: Solace, Kafka, Pulsar, MQTT, AMQP, REST and JMS

Other: Zero Trust