Staff DevOps Engineer

About the position

Fandom is growing! Our Staff DevOps Engineer opportunity is based in Poznan and reports to our Manager of Network Operations. Our Engineering team is a fan of building web experiences on the world's largest platform for fans, with 300+ million monthly users! As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you will develop and monitor our scalable infrastructure in a large-scale Linux environment. You will work closely with all development teams to ensure that services are designed with scale, operability, performance, and ease-of-use in mind. Your day-to-day operations will include diagnosing and resolving performance and reliability issues across the entire stack: hardware, kernel, application, and network. You'll be responsible for driving the entire lifecycle of DevOps projects and feature developments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high availability systems
• Lead improvement of code integration and deployment processes
• Contribute to and occasionally lead meetings: planning, stand-ups, RCAs and retrospectives
• Provide strategy and thought leadership in product and technical decisions
• Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, network management, and security/performance monitoring
• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards and make recommendations for improvement
• Mentor other passionate engineers with diverse skill sets in a collaborative team environment
• Participate in on-call duties on a rotational basis.

Requirements

• Experience scaling and monitoring production infrastructure for heavy user load, e.g., 10,000,000+ monthly active users.
• 5+ years of Technical Operations, DevOps, System Operations, Network Operations or Site Reliability experience.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with configuration management tools (preferably Chef, but experience with Puppet, Ansible, or other equivalent tools is acceptable)
• A strong understanding of Linux systems, both high and low level
• Proficiency with modern monitoring systems e.g., Prometheus
• Proficiency with networking protocols (OSI network layers, TCP/IP, routing)
• Proficiency in identifying and creating useful systems' metrics needed to maintain performance and availability.
• Knowledge of relational databases
• Programming experience with scripting and coding: go, python, perl etc.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with cloud providers: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon AWS
• Knowledge of Prometheus, Hashicorp Consul, Terraform, or Vault
• Understanding of the ELK stack (elasticsearch, logstash, kibana)
• Strong Networking experience (BGP, VPNs, network security) - for example, CNA certification
• Experience building and maintaining continuous integrations and deployment pipelines.

Benefits

• MacBook Pro and all the gear you need for work
• Free access to a multitude of popular online courses and books sponsored by our company
• Company stock options
• Company swag packages
• Cafeteria Benefit Program (including private medical care, gym membership, shopping/wellness bonus, etc.)
• VTO (Voluntary Time Off) - a day off every quarter for volunteering non-profit
• Frequent team bonding events
• Flexible work hours & time-off
• Employee Interest and Hobby Groups supported by our company
• Open, energetic and fan-focused, international work environment