Senior DevOps Engineer

Blackwall is a European company established in 2019 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. We operate globally, with clients and partners in more than 30 countries around the world.

We develop easy to implement, state of the art, online tools to protect companies from modern-day web threats. We are a dynamic and fast-growing start-up dedicated to revolutionising web-traffic security and bot mitigation. Our innovative approach and cutting-edge technologies have positioned us as a future leader in the market.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with a strong background in Ansible, Gitlab CI/CD and bare metal Kubernetes; additional knowledge about Helm Charts, Terraform and Webservice hosting is a significant bonus. We are building our core services in C/C++ and Go and utilize Ansible, Gitlab and Docker to build flexible infrastructure ready for automated deployments and operations. You will be part of our team responsible for the infrastructure and solutions running across different data centers - we look for someone capable of building and running diligently build automation Infrastructure-As-Code with complete understanding of the pipeline end-to-end.

Our Engineers have wide responsibilities over the whole development lifecycle so knowledge of tools such as Git, Docker, K8s, Ansible, Bash, Terraform, DNS, and data-handling and ETL using SQL, reg-ex and object-storage will become handy. We are looking for engineers who can solve problems together, think about big challenges such as scalability and availability and can go against the current to also challenge the common decision.

Understanding of our Core-Product technologies of Web Security and Web-Request distribution will greatly help you succeed. The other focus area of your professional aspiration should be the quality of code you are responsible for. We consider the code that is building our infrastructure equally as important as the code that builds our software products.

In addition to technical expertise, we value taking ownership beyond the obvious, your motivation to learn new things you don’t yet master, ability to make decisions together with your team and willingness to collaborate with different Blackwall teams. We are an Experts-Company relying on individuals ability to build strong teams without internal competition but professional collaboration complementing our combined skills to drive our success as team and as a company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and build Ansible and Terraform automation IaaC

• Organize, plan and check the performance of our infrastructure as DevOps engineer;

• Maintain, operate and optimize the current infrastructure and CI/CD processes;

• Solving problems of deploying applications in test and production environments;

• Setting up monitoring, logging and tracing;

• Participation in the analysis and elimination of incidents, troubleshooting issues;

• Automating processes, developing toolchains and workflows;

• Ensuring the security and compliance of infrastructure;

• Documenting and tracking improvements;

• Constant interaction with the product team;

Essential Skills & Requirements:

• At least 5 years of commercial experience working with Kubernetes, Git, and Automation as a DevOps engineer;

• In-depth knowledge and experience of using Ansible in complex setups together with Terraform;

• Expertise in Linux, networking and virtualization;

• Expertise in Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager;

• Experience with Linux software packaging (DEB, RPM, Docker);

• Experience with scripting (bash);

• Experience with web security;

• Experience with SQL/Object-Storage;

• Working experience with Golang is a big plus;

Important skills we value:

• Curiosity, enthusiasm and strong desire to learn and improve.

• Time management and asynchronous communication skills relevant for a remote-first engineering organization.

Our tech-stack

• Linux

• Gitlab

• Ansible

• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform

• RabbitMQ

• Redis

• PostgreSQL

• Clickhouse

Location requirement: Candidates must be based in Germany, Estonia, the United Kingdom, or Spain.

We are striving to create a diverse and inclusive environment. We encourage all applicants to apply for our roles. We value and actively seek diverse talent!

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