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\nWhat you’ll be doing\n\nAs a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be on a team responsible for the platform that runs all Arachnys services. Our job is to ensure it’s secure, scalable, maintainable and cost-efficient. In addition to this core responsibility the team also provide consultancy to product-aligned development teams to assist with pipelines/infrastructure-as-code, performance troubleshooting as well as centrally defining best practices to ensure consistency and standards between projects. \n\nIn this role you’ll be expected to contribute to design/architecture decisions and defining best practices - being mindful of and able to carefully articulate the trade-offs and understand implications of decisions and how these map to current priorities. You’ll be able to draw on previous hard won experience to help deliver change safely as well as work on initiatives to simplify and manage complexity.\n\nRequired\n\n\n* We’re a multi-disciplined team and are looking for candidates that can demonstrate a strong background in cloud administration (ideally AWS) and IaC (ideally terraform) and one or more of the following -\n\n\n\n\n\n* Kubernetes - running production workloads on hosted clusters (e.g. EKS)\n\n\n\n* CI/CD - Experience of pipeline administration and best practices for deploying to production.\n\n\n\n* SRE - Experience of reliability engineering for cloud based workloads. You’ll have worked on observability tooling and have solid fundamentals with regards to systems and database performance, troubleshooting, TCP/IP, DNS + TLS.\n\n\n\n* Security - Experience of working in alignment with common security frameworks/standards e.g. CIS20, PCI-DSS, ISO27001. This might include vulnerability management , continuous compliance monitoring, rbac/iam, secrets management, secure build baselines etc..\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Stack\n\nThe Arachnys Platform is a set of multitenant SaaS applications deployed on AWS.\n\nOur backend is based on Python web services, backed by PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and a number of AWS-specific services.\n\nOur frontend stack is based around React, TypeScript and Jest; in addition to the web client, we also have a Chrome extension.\n\nOperationally, we deploy Docker containers to Kubernetes, running on AWS infrastructure managed by Terraform.\n\nWe embrace new technologies and ways of doing things, but we do so deliberately, as a team, and weigh the real problems they solve against the complexity they introduce.\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* £500 budget for home-office equipment (we have an excellent remote-first working setup).\n\n\n\n* Bonus.ly - Our in-house micro-rewards scheme redeemable for haircuts, spotify memberships, games consoles and much more.\n\n\n\n* Generous parental leave.\n\n\n\n* A diverse and growing remote social culture that already includes gaming (board and video) and book club, as well as daily social calls and weekly coffee buddies.\n\n\n\n* A fitness programme that includes optional yoga, pilates, and HIIT classes (even under lockdown) as well as subsidised gym membership and a cycle to work scheme.\n\n\n\n* Career progression - Arachnys is a growth-stage company and there are plenty of opportunities to work across different parts of the stack and progress in your career.\n\n\n\n* Amazing colleagues - everyone at Arachnys cares passionately about what they do and our teams are filled with friendly, smart and highly collaborative individuals.\n\n\n\n\nDiversity\n\nWe are firmly committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace in which all employees are valued, respected, safe, supported, and listened to without judgement or prejudice. These principles apply to all, regardless of race or ethnicity, age, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, mental or physical ability, religion, appearance, political beliefs, educational background, class, and position or tenure within the company. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are central to the direction we want our organisation to take, and are considered across all aspects of our business. \n\nLocation (COVID-19 statement)\n\nArachnys is a remote-first organisation, meaning that we work remotely but come together for collaborative on-sites and socials a handful of times a year (once it's safe to do so). We have found that candidates within 1-2 time zones of the UK work best with our current working practices. We provide all the technology and equipment our team needs to work productively remotely as well as all travel costs if we do ask them to come to a London onsite. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Senior, Engineer, Cloud, Scheme, Python, Travel, SaaS and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nThis is a full time remote  position. All of our current Development Team is in Asia or Europe that’s why we prefer to hire people from Europe and Asia because of team collaboration.\n\nYou will be working mostly on flexible hours although you will need to attend the team meeting which is at approximately 8:30am GMT and work for at least 3 hours after this time. This is 3:30am to 6:30am New York time, so you can see that it is unlikely , although not impossible, that we will hire in North or South America.\n\nYou will be responsible for the deployment and maintenance of a cloud-based multi tenant SaaS solution. To qualify for this job, you must have a minimum of 2 years experience in developing, deploying and maintaining large Amazon AWS based SaaS solutions.\n\nThe role will encompass the use of a broad range of AWS technologies, operating systems (Windows, Linux) and application environments (Nginx, Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, queue management, Memcache an other open source technologies), understanding of TCP/IP networking with an emphasis on the implementation of best practice cloud security principles.\n\nTop 5 skills needed for this job:\n\n* At least 3 years of Experience with AWS services\n\n* At least 2 years of programming with PHP or Python\n\n* Very good understanding of web app and server security\n\n* Solid experience in building highly scalable server architectures\n\n* Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:\n\n* Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud based production system, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems.\n\n* Building, releasing and handling configuration management of production systems.\n\n* Doing pre-production Acceptance Testing to help assure the quality of our products / services.\n\n* System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains.\n\n* Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.\n\n* Evaluating new technology options and vendor products.\n\n* Ensuring critical system security through the use of best in class cloud security solutions.\n\n* Supporting installation and maintenance of layered software, and infrastructure.\n\n* Identifying where applications or hardware is having performance/reliability issues; analyzes and formulates a proposed method to correct issues.\n\n* Delivering long-term support and management; troubleshoots and resolves issues daily\n\n* Working in accordance with corporate and organizational security policies and procedures.\n\n* Understanding  personal role in safeguarding corporate and client assets.\n\n* Taking appropriate action to prevent and report any compromises of security within scope of role.\n\n* Providing Incident management\n\n* Working on and maintain continuous integration systems\n\n* Working on deploying web applications on various environments\n\n* Debugging and analyzing production load\n\n* Executing penetration tests on production or pre-production environments\n\n* Executing load testing on pre-production or production environments\n\n* Maintaining a system for running automated tests, optimizing and speeding up the execution of test sets\n\n\n\nTO BE THE BEST FIT FOR THIS JOB YOU NEED TO:\n\n* Have at least 2 years of development in PHP, Java or Python and at least  5 years of experience in server management\n\n* Have solid experience :\n\n\n\n* as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.\n\n* with Ubuntu / CentOS\n\n* in building highly scalable server architectures\n\n* in continuous integration\n\n\n\n* Be an expert in :\n\n\n\n* working with AWS - EC2, RDS, S3\n\n* server security\n\n* setting up and tuning LEMP\n\n* tuning NGINX performance\n\n* setting up back and stability systems\n\n\n\n* Have good experience with :\n\n\n\n* MySQL Replication / Sharding\n\n* setting up and securing wordpress\n\n* managing and installing SSL certificates, configuring firewalls and VPN\n\n* nagios, newrelic or any other monitoring software\n\n* Vagrant and writing provisioning scripts in chef or puppets\n\n\n\n* Have the ability to :\n\n\n\n* write bash scripts\n\n* set up automated deployment of different projects on different environments\n\n* understand complex software architecture\n\n* set up multi-tier architectures\n\n\n\n* Experience with LXD and in setting up MongoDB replication are a plus\n\n\n\nDESIRABLES:\n\n* Bachelor of Computer Sciences or Software Engineering or Informatics\n\n* Great verbal and written communication skills\n\n* Be available 24/7 in a case of need or emergency\n\n* Have really stable and alternative source of internet connection\n\n* Ability to travel around the world for meetings\n\n\n\nTO APPLY, please go to this link- http://time-doctor.breezy.hr/p/6c7a97392bd9-devops-engineer-100--remote-work \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Engineer, Amazon, Java, Cloud, PHP, Python, Travel, SaaS and Nginx jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n