Job opening

Kraken is constantly growing in both staff and clients/projects so we need to beef-up our DevOps team and keep the ball rolling!

Therefore, we are looking for a DevOps engineer with experience or at least a sysadmin willing to grow into a DevOps role. You would be working on distributed systems handling various web apps, services and IoT backends.

Our technology stack includes Go, Node.js, Java, Redis, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Galera, Python… All of them in use on interesting projects dealing with IoT, industrial automation, machine learning and big-data.

We have plenty of challenges, a small base of regular clients and a bunch of big projects meaning your support to our developers and system will be much appreciated and rewarded! Of course - all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, so to unwind we rent a house (pool and barbecue obligatory) somewhere on the seaside every year :)

Responsibilities:

• Working as part of our DevOps team
• Covering multiple projects/clients
• Working with bare-metal servers, Google Cloud and AWS
• Setting up new servers, containers
• Setting up and maintaining system & service monitoring, alarming and logging
• Maintaining databases on a service-level

Minimum requirements:

• Bsc in a relevant field
• 1 year experience as DevOps/SysAdmin/Developer with sysadmin responsibilities
• solid knowledge of GNU/Linux (preferable Debian based)
• basic networking knowledge
• basic programming skills (preferable Python, basic shell scripting)
• git
• SQL database experience (PSQL, MySQL)
• reliable, proactive, eager to constantly learn

Extra points:

• Jenkins
• experience in app and webapp deployment
• provisioning tools (preferable Ansible, SaltStack)
• monitoring tools (preferable TICK stack)
• ELK stack
• Docker
• AWS, GoogleCloud
• developer experience

Required when applying:

• Describe your most technically challenging task (as DevOps/sysadmin)