SR DevOps and Team Lead

Human Power BG is an HR agency that offers consultations and recruitment for some of the best companies in Bulgaria.
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Our client is an American company, opening its new R&D center in Sofia, Bulgaria. They develop their own product and have a line of American clients with more than 200,000 customers. 
They are searching for a Staff DevOps Engineer to help expand their Platform Offering to banks and credit unions with an all-new digital banking platform where data drives feature development, modern technology provides endless extensibility, and members get the right tools at the right time.
Your Responsibilities:

• Communicate and collaborate effectively across teams to support and advise colleagues whenever necessary.

• Support the development team and provide the missing infrastructural dependencies they need, both for local development and in the cloud.

• Lead the effort in your functional area, help the team to make the decisions in your functional area.

• Configure and maintain CI/CD tools and processes, work closely with the development team to ensure they are using these tools effectively.

• Participate in peer reviews to maintain the code quality.

• Mentor and guide the team members.

• Help the teammates to solve complicated problems.

• Maintain clear communication with development team regarding your progress and impediments to ensure the implementation is on track.

• Clearly communicate the progress and the decisions made to the stakeholders and/or wider group.

• Build documentation for the implemented functionality.

• Come up with ideas on how to make the product better and developers life easier.

• Participate in Scrum ceremonies for transparency and collaboration.

• Seek ways to optimize and speed-up the release process, e.g. by introducing new software.

• Perform analysis of the current system in use and develop plans for enhancements and improvements.

• Work with the product team to set up meaningful monitoring and measurements.

• Drive the team effort on holding performance assessment and monitoring and recommend performance enhancements.

• Help define and set development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.

• Work closely with security stakeholders to identify and deploy cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.

• Strive for continuous improvement, regular refactoring, building/maintaining continuous integration, and deployment pipeline.

More About You:
- Experience leading a team that successfully shipped a digital mobile product
- Experience with distributed systems development.
- Senior Certification or Equivalent experience with AWS
- Experience running Terraform in production as part of a team.
- Experience running a container scheduler with a production application (ECS, Kubernetes, Nomad, etc.)

- Linux experience

- Excellent troubleshooting abilities

- Experience building a product via prototyping and iterative strategies
- Clear communication skills across cross-functional audiences (customers, stakeholders, engineers, project managers)
- Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum framework)
- Desire to review other people's code and share feedback
- Confident advocating for and making complex decisions
- Flexibility in scheduling working with a global team
- Toolset: Terraform, AWS, ECS, Dotnet, Gitlab CI/CD

Additional Desired Skills:
- Fintech, US banking, or compliance sensitive, system experience
- Familiarity with Networking
- Familiarity with Security
- Familiarity with Cloud-native solutions
- Experience in cleaning up things in growing projects
Other cloud platforms experience (Azure, Google)

How to stand out:

- Great communication, collaboration, teaming, self-management, and organization skills
- Analytical skills in problem-solving and troubleshooting
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to quickly develop working relationships
- Personally motivated to excel in assignments, continuously self-educate, and mentor other team members
- Assertive, with the confidence to voice issues / roadblocks and provide insights across the team
- Quick learning skills, ability to read and understand other people's code
- Ability to communicate from both development and business perspectives and act as a liaison between the client and the development team would be a plus.

What The Company offers :

• Flexible remote work with occasional in-person meets for collaboration and alignment.

• Work with kind, passionate, innovative, multicultural, and thoughtful team members.

• Full benefits package with the majority of premiums paid for by the company.

• Culture based on honoring people, doing great work, and having fun.

• Potential for future upside with our employee stock options plan.

• Seasoned executive team with multiple successful exits.

• Competitive, market-based compensation.

• Experience in evolving digital banking in the USA

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If this position is of interest to you and you meet the requirements, please send your updated CV.
For any questions you may have, please contact us: 0878 344 034 or
Thank you!
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We will contact only approved candidates!Our services are free of charge to all applicants.
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