DevOps Engineer

• At least 3 year’s experience of working with k8s
• Proficiency in bash scripting. Automation oriented, being able to create useful scripts in any language to avoid tasks repetition
• Proficiency in docker, being able to create and improve containers, reduce their size, follow best practices to avoid security and performance issues.
• Experience with a range of programming languages, ideally Javascript, TypeScript, Python, Java and Kotlin
• Experience with various database technologies including PostgreSQL, Vector from Action and MongoDB
• The ability to communicate complex technical solutions to non-technical users
• Technical understanding of infrastructure components, their dependencies, and interactions between servers, virtual systems, networks, databases, web applications, etc
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Experience with RKE from Rancher
• Kustomize and Helm knowledge
• Public Cloud computing platforms, such as Google Cloud Platform, Azure and/or AWS
• Good working knowledge of developing cloud-friendly enterprise solutions
• Good communication with non-peers

Sophron Engineering is an owner-led company in Armenia which is part of the AlphaZetta network, one of the largest organisations of data experts worldwide. Our central mission is to contribute to Armenia's rise to become the Silicon Valley of the East.

As a company, we believe in Leadership, Transparency, Pragmatism, Mindfulness, Cosmopolitan, Sophronication and Empathy. These are the ingredients to be a leader as a company.

As a member of our team, you work with people who believe in constant growth and who share the vision of Armenia's place as a high-quality IT Center of Excellence. And as a DevOps Engineer, you will work at a SaaS company designed to analyse, predict and automate critical decision

making for businesses. With our integrative AI technology, companies can make tactical

decisions to improve their strategies, policies and forecasts.

We take pride in creating a work environment that promotes invention, independence and transparency. Our social and 'open door' approach allows everyone to show initiative, be creative and collaborate across the business.

We want inventors. We are looking for people with ideas and solutions to improve the way we do things.

If you are a problem-solver, creator, and designer looking to expand your

knowledge and responsibilities, then it’s time to talk to us!

• Define workflows of the applications from a release to candidate release creation until its final deployment to production.
• Monitor and check k8s clusters health, ability to troubleshoot.
• Document and share the k8s knowledge and the specifics of our clusters and the templating and deployment tools.
• Standardise the way to define an application so it can be deployed to a k8s cluster, how to define configuration, structure and naming of the files, logging standards, etc
• Help and support CI/CD systems for developers to deploy and rollback.
• Configure the source control and ticketing system to set up the needed hooks to implement builds, deployments, rollbacks, etc
• Own, manage, review and improve the horizontal deployments. That means all applications needed to provide DB’s to the deployments, to log traces, monitoring, security, storage, etc
• Establish security systems to forbid unsecured deployments that could bring down the cluster or cause troubles in normal performance
• Define security measures to avoid the deployment of software with known vulnerabilities or bad practices
• Automate the software and security tests of the software so it can be part of the deployment process
• Proposal for improvements in all components of the development and deployment process in terms of security, performance, reliability, etc

Being a member of one of the largest Data Experts’ Community, we offer technical as well as leadership careers. A roadmap will be established within the first six months. 

With a growth strategy in place, someone who starts today with us has the potential to grow into roles in which he would rarely get within companies with bigger, more established and rigid organizational structures.

You will be given an opportunity of working with international clients in a fast-paced environment, improve your skills and enhance your knowledge. 

 👉If you're a dynamic specialist eager to join our data sophroneers, send CVs to careers@sophron.co 📩