Job Overview
Job TitleDevOps Engineer
Job TypeFull Time
Offered Salary$75,000
LocationHybrid
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Job Description
About Skydropx LATAM
We are innovating logistics, a feat achieved thanks to a visionary team eager to grow and change the world. At Skydropx LATAM, you will find a space to develop your career within a dynamic, ambitious, and multicultural work environment.
Your Responsibilities as a DevOps Engineer
- Develop features and improvements to services and products securely and tested, following company guidelines.
- Draft technical documentation for solutions and processes.
- Resolve high-scope and complex technical problems efficiently.
- Ensure best practices for high-scale services and products, maintaining code style and necessary maintainability.
- Troubleshoot performance and optimization issues, particularly at scale, demonstrating the ability to diagnose and prevent them.
- Advise and guide team members to help them develop their technical skills, removing obstacles to their autonomy and agility.
- Add value to the team and effectively communicate your ideas to your area leader.
- Be available to resolve critical problems as needed, ensuring system stability.
- Collaborate to address support activities required by our internal areas.
What You'll Bring
- Indispensable: Advanced English (B2 or higher). Portuguese is desirable.
- Experience in Development with Ruby on Rails or Node.JS.
- +4 years of experience working with GCP (GKE, CloudRun, CloudSQL, Memorystore, Pub/Sub, VPN, Compute Engine, IAM, etc.).
- Mid or senior-level experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with environment variables in container instances and tools (Docker and Kubernetes).
- Experience working with Kafka and/or Pub/Sub.
- Development and deployment of Infrastructure as Code (Cloud-independent tools preferred).
- Scripting proficiency with Bash and Python.
- Solid knowledge and practice of software engineering, including best practices for the full software development lifecycle (coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations).
- Experience with operating systems, Linux file systems, proxies, and web servers.
- Hands-on experience in writing and distributing high-quality large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.
- Ability to effectively communicate technical ideas and collaborate with both technical and non-technical peers.
- Desirables: Experience creating microservices and APIs.
- Knowledge of JSON, TypeScript, Node.JS.
- Knowledge in security and compliance.
- Knowledge of common algorithms and data structures.
What Skydropx LATAM Offers
- Regional Mission: Help LATAM businesses become worry-free about their logistics.
- Location: Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Peru (100% remote).
- Salary: Competitive and negotiable based on experience, skills, and hiring process results.
- Work Arrangement: 100% remote.
- Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 17:00 CST (Mexico), with schedule flexibility for new releases.
- Professional growth and development opportunities.
Key Skills/Competency
- Kubernetes
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Ruby on Rails
- Node.JS
- Kafka
- Pub/Sub
- Infrastructure as Code
- Bash Scripting
- Python
- Distributed Systems
How to Get Hired at Skydropx LATAM
- Research Skydropx LATAM's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume for DevOps expertise: Highlight GCP, Kubernetes, Ruby on Rails/Node.JS, and Infrastructure as Code experience relevant to Skydropx LATAM's tech stack.
- Showcase problem-solving skills: Prepare examples of how you've diagnosed and resolved high-scale performance issues or critical system problems in previous DevOps roles.
- Prepare for technical depth: Be ready to discuss distributed systems architecture, secure development practices, and your experience with Kafka/Pub/Sub and scripting languages (Bash, Python).
- Demonstrate communication and mentorship: Articulate how you effectively communicate complex technical ideas and contribute to team skill development, aligning with Skydropx LATAM's collaborative environment.
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