As VP DevOps, you should have at least 2 years experience working in this position and at least 5 years working as a Senior DevOps engineer. You should have a proven track record working with cloud infrastructure as well as CI/CD in a team environment. Ideally, you will have a scripting and coding background as you will be working closely together with product development teams to support them in product building, deployment, and maintaining product infrastructure.

You will leverage your experience and managerial skills to organize and optimize your DevOps team and guide them to work on improving, optimizing, and delivering the overall organizational IT strategy.

As VP DevOps you will work closely with the Lead DevOps Engineer to oversee team formation and organization, knowledge building and sharing, regular status reporting, tutoring and guiding the team members and junior members to ensure a harmonious team environment.

As a fast-growing venture builder company, we offer the experience to work on a variety of different products, technologies, and challenges that must be met and managed. This means having an appetite for continuous learning and improving your skills and knowledge. It is important that you have an analytical mindset and can perform well under pressure as will be the case from time to time.

Reports to: CTO

Member of: Technical Board, Middle Management

Attributes

• Analytical mindset
• Problem solver
• Self-driven
• Teamplayer
• Good communicator
• Product oriented mindset
• Good business acumen
• Be an opportunistic intrapreneur
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and understand their workflow

Responsibilities

• Manage DevOps
• Manage cross functional teams and communication
• Contribute and optimise internal processes and procedures
• Assist product delivery is on time and in line with the product vision
• Nurture (mentor) and develop DevOps engineers
• Hands on when needed
• Assist HR in the recruitment process
• Contribute to and optimise the company’s technical strategy
• Resource Planning
• Keeping abreast of technological developments and risks

Required Knowledge

• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates or similar)
• Advanced Linux administration (Networking, Security, ACLs, Nginx, Systemd, Backup strategies, Resource monitoring)
• Experience with AWS
• Docker orchestration with production experience
• Basic Windows administration
• Automation of tasks
• Experience with version control systems such as Git
• Security Hardening
• Cost Optimization
• Experience with setup for scalability and durability
• Linux low-level system administration
• Scripting (bash, python, ruby)
• Coding (.NET, GO, PHP)
• Ansible
• ETL pipelines
• Advanced Windows administration

Technologies and Applications

Some of the technologies, applications, and services that our DevOps team works with include:  Linux, Windows, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Hasura, NGINX, CloudFlare, AWS, JIRA, Composer, Gitlab, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, Consul, Docker, Ansible, ELK, Graylog, Slack, Auth0, Sentry, Terraform