Job Summary:

Amun 21Shares is looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our growing DevOps team. This person will maintain, guide and develop DevOps best practices throughout the engineering department and all its projects. This includes helping with our continuous integration practices in the organization by creating pipelines, automating build and release processes and working to standardize those processes across our application suite. In addition, this candidate will aid in the technical design and delivery of new systems with regard to continuous integration, automated testing and effective monitoring.

Key Accountabilities and Scope:

• Architect infrastructure and deploy production systems
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support teams during development and release cycles
• Build tooling to reduce the overhead of deployment and monitoring
• Produce and update documentation of standards and procedures
• Provide on-demand support as needed
• Prepare disaster recovery and incident response plan for production deployments
• Implement best practices and cost optimization strategies
• Communicates with wider team to solve and diagnose problems, to design technical solutions and discuss technology choices
• Collaborates in a multi-skilled agile team to estimate, plan, deliver and test prioritized features
• Mentors and guides fellow engineers in technical skills and the application of DevOps practices and development methodologies
• Investigate, diagnose and fix problems in existing systems using creative thought processes

Skills Required:

• High comfort in working with Linux environment and typical sysadmin tools
• Good understanding of concepts like CI/CD, configuration management, cloud platforms, version control, automation, monitoring, analytics, containerization, and microservices architecture
• Strong experience and understanding of using Agile methodologies to plan, develop, test and deliver software through the value stream. Ability to mentor others in its use.
• excellent organizational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
• Familiarity with orchestration systems and containerization, e.g. Kubernetes, Docker
• Knowledgeable in communication protocols and the OSI model
• Excellent team working and communication skills
• Skilled in communicating across the organization to communicate technical solutions and resolve technical problems
• Data security is your middle name
• Experience investigating and diagnosing problems with large-scale IT systems
• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science - preferred 
• Capable of writing E2E and integration tests - preferred

Must be comfortable working hybrid in-office in either New York or Zurich.

Our Stack:

• AWS infrastructure
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Postgresql
• Node backend (Typescript, feathersjs, nestjs)
• Vue and React frontend frameworks on the front 
• Python and Golang in the mix as well