Senior DevOps Engineer

Shiji Group provides software solutions and services for the hospitality, food service, retail and entertainment industries, ranging from hotel management solutions, to food and beverage and retail systems, payment gateways, data management, online distribution and more. Founded in 1998 as a network solutions provider for hotels, and later changed to a software provider for the whole consumer market, Shiji Group today comprises 5,000 employees in 80+ subsidiaries and brands, serving over 91,000 hotels, 200,000 restaurants and 600,000 retail outlets. Shiji is committed to connecting the global business of hospitality. We provide an integrated suite of technological solutions that empower hotel, retail, food, and entertainment companies to better connect with their guests.

Responsibilities:

• Building, managing, and testing complex global distributed solutions using Kubernetes and AWS, ensuring the environments are stable and reliable for both customers and internal stakeholders
• Maintaining the existing infrastructure (as code)
• Ensuring security of the infrastructure
• Day to day support of developers to ensure application configurations are production grade
• Creating new application hosting environments

Our daily work:

• We use Kanban to manage tasks
• Our teamwork is based on Jira
• We participate in daily, weekly and retro meetings
• We use Bitbucket as a code repository
• We build environments in AWS with Terraform/Terragrunt
• We develop deployment solutions for Kubernetes
• 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 handle releasing applications to the environments
• We use MS Teams to spread knowledge and participate in meetings

Technologies:

• AWS
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• Elasticsearch
• PostgreSQL
• Prometheus
• Hashicorp stack
• Bitbucket
• Jenkins
• ArgoCD

Our System:

• Our primary cloud service provider is AWS. We use most of the popular services including VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, SES, SNS, WAF and many more
• We write all of our infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Our applications, managed by multiple teams, run 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
• We are also responsible for managing Bitbucket repos and Jenkins
• We write our internal tool set using Python and Golang

• Minimum 5 years of commercial experience in AWS
• Minimum 3 years of commercial experience in Kubernetes
• Experience with monitoring technologies (ex. DataDog, ELK Stack)
• Experience in GNU Linux
• Experience with CI/CD process using Jenkins and ArgoCD
• The drive to solve any challenge that is thrown your way
• You are open to new technologies and paradigms
• Accountable
• A team player
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to investigate and analyze information and to draw conclusions

It will be good if you have concrete experience with most of the below.

• Certification in AWS or Kubernetes