We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to work for a key client of our organization. Our client is the leading surf report, forecast and media product, used by millions of surfers worldwide to connect with their passion – surfing. Using machine learning, ocean facing cameras and ocean, beach and satellite sensors our client’s team is building innovative real-time data sets and turning these into product features that deliver new, actionable insights to a active user base of over 4 million people.

This is a full-time, long term and remote position to work from Argentina.
Basic Qualifications

• Intermediate/Advanced English skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Self-driven, motivated.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Ability to thrive in a team environment.
• Expertise in:
  • Devops AWS
  • Building Automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity, GitLab)
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Elasticsearch

Ideally you will also have:

• 5+ years experience in DevOps
• An Agile mindset with experience working in Agile environment
• A spirit of collaboration and transparent communication
• A natural curiosity for new scripting languages , frameworks and technologies
• High personal code/development standards (peer testing, unit testing, documentation, etc)

Responsibilities – Security

• Replace Jenkins Secret Management with AWS Secrets Manager/Parameter Store.
• Enable Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection.
• Encrypt database backups.
• Policy for EC2 SSH keys.
• Automate Git repo credential scanning.
• Automate S3 public data availability auditing.
• Audit EC2 instances and Docker containers for OS-level security issues.
• Update resource tagging through Terraform and Cloudformation.
• Split single MongoDB Atlas cluster into multiple smaller clusters.
• Elasticsearch, preferably using Amazon Elasticsearch Service.
• InSpec testing framework.

Responsibilities – General infrastructure work

• Move to Spot instance for ECS clusters.
• Update Terraform libraries in various services.
• Add target-tracking autoscaling to services proxy.
• Implement ALB strategy to avoid 100-target-references-per-ALB error.
• Upgrade Jenkins core and plugins.
• Move primary Jenkins deploy jobs to Github Actions.
• Add mock services to Nginx proxy tests.