Senior DevOps Engineer

**About Distillery**: Distillery is a high-growth technology services company specializing in end-to-end custom software development and IT staffing for startups, small and mid-size businesses, and enterprises. We help our clients to imagine, design, engineer and deliver business-defining software and digital experiences whether they’re looking for a fully managed team, scalable workforce or individual engineers.
**About the Position**: As a
- Senior DevOps Engineer _you will work on new technologies and find ways to meet our customers’ needs and make it easy for them to do business with us. You will be a part of a team to resolve a diverse range of complex problems and regularly lead multiple, technically complex, large-scale projects.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide technical leadership in effectively managing AWS environment, Kubernetes cluster and DevOps toolchain by following best practices through implementation of monitoring, maintenance, and administration
- Provide guidance and support during deployment and general production outages
- Create and Manage CI / CD pipelines in GitHub Actions
- Write and maintain Terraform script for IaC
- Setup, maintain and tag AWS resources (RDS, Elasticache, EC2, IAM)
- Setup Server Monitoring and APM (Cloudwatch, Datadog)
- Improve documentation for Knowledge Management
- Work closely with product managers, architects, and engineering to effectively use best deployment practices
- Mentor other devops engineers
- Help define development standards, procedures, and guidelines to improve the overall development process
- To be on call via PagerDuty

**Requirements**:

- 7+ years experience
- Extensive experience in AWS
- Extensive experience in GitHub Actions or Jenkins
- Experience with Kubernetes, preferably EKS
- Strong Experience in AWS services and management such as EKS, MKS, SQS, EC2, IAM, S3, Security Group, VPC, etc
- Experience with other tools in the IaC like: Ansible, Terraform
- Python experience
- Familiar with Docker environment
- BS or higher in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
- Experience working with a Global Team
- Strong understanding of software architecture, Linux systems and relational databases
- Strong Shell scripting knowledge
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

**Nice to Have**:

- SQL
- Kafka experience
- OO programming languages such as Java
- Experience with setting up and maintaining DW instances such as Snowflake.
- Solid understanding of monitoring and alerting tools / services (DataDog)
- Jira ticketing system
- Confluence
- Pulumi
- Terragrunt

**Why You’ll Like Working Here**:

- The ability to work on and partner with multi-national teams that are committed to our BEST core values: Best People, Best Expertise, Best Service, Best Teamwork
- A generous, competitive compensation package for exceptional performers, as well as a generous vacation package and competitive benefits plan
- Remote working environment
- Professional and personal development