DevOps Engineer

About the role

Soum, a re-commerce marketplace for second-hand goods in the MENA region, is looking for a DevOps Engineer to build performant, stable and resilient infrastructure. You will architect and build the infrastructure and coordinate with the teams behind other layers of the product infrastructure. The role is highly collaborative and calls for a strong team player committed to perfection.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure the scalability, stability and availability of low-latency, mission-critical systems.
• Enhance the CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and generate and maintain Helm manifests for Kubernetes.
• Maintain Infrastructure as Code and manage VPN, load balancers and firewalls.
• Set up and maintain monitoring with New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana, including 24x7 monitoring and incident resolution, and escalate to upper tiers when needed.
• Debug infrastructure, detect bottlenecks and investigate incidents with clear documentation.
• Manage high availability and disaster recovery, implement secure infrastructure and drive continuous improvement and cost optimization.
• Take responsibility for the company-wide tech infrastructure across all environments.

Required profile

• Minimum 2 years of experience in DevOps on production applications.
• Experience designing and architecting high-performing applications and in agile development practices.
• Experience in a fast-growing startup is a plus; AWS certifications are a plus.

Required skills

• GCP and AWS cloud.
• Kubernetes and Docker, with strong hands-on experience building high availability infrastructure using EKS on AWS.
• Terraform and GitOps with ArgoCD.
• Infrastructure monitoring tools (minimum 1 year).
• Securing production infrastructure.