Essential skills

• Strong Linux/Unix administration skills;

• Software lifecycle management experience;

• Networking fundamentals (switching, routing, load balancing);

• Versioning (Git, GitHub etc.);

• Scripting/programming skills (Bash, Python/Ruby, etc.);

• Monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.);

• Experience with relational DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.);

• Excellent written communication and the ability to communicate verbally with the customer (English);

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience).

DevOps skills

• Continuous Integration/Delivery (CircleCi, GitLab CI, Jenkins etc.);

• Cloud/virtualization experience (AWS, Docker ecosystem, KVM/XEN, Vagrant etc.);

• Cloud orchestration (Terraform, etc.);

• Practice experience with AWS (EKS, CloudFront, EC2, S3, kubectl);

• Configuration management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc.).

Bonus skills

• NoSQL DB knowledge (Redis, Memcached, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.);

• Understanding of containerization concepts, scheduling and orchestration systems;

• Understanding of Distributed Systems concepts, High Availability, vertical and horizontal scalability;

• Log analytics (ELK/EFK stack, Sumologic, Splunk, etc.);

• Any other public cloud experience (Google cloud, Azure).