Senior DevOps Engineer

December 20, 2024

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Akuity

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Akuity is a company that provides an end-to-end GitOps platform for Kubernetes, focusing on deployment, promotion, and monitoring with tools like Argo CD, Kargo, and KubeVision. The platform extends Kubernetes APIs to enhance continuous delivery, container orchestration, and event automation. Akuity's solutions aim to simplify infrastructure management, improve security, and increase deployment efficiency, demonstrating significant time savings and improved shipping velocity for developers. Akuity also offers enterprise support for Argo, emphasizing security, compliance, and scalability for Kubernetes deployments.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• The Opportunity: Write software for the Akuity Platform and maintain infrastructure • Design, build, test, deploy, and improve Akuity’s SaaS platform • Develop in Go on the server side • Collaborate with designers and engineers to deliver features • Ensure scalable and developer-empathetic solutions • Facilitate SLO, on-call rotations, and blameless post-mortems • Help with infrastructure maintenance and cloud cost optimization • Orchestrate cloud resources for reliability and scalability

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience developing scalable web applications using Golang • Administration experience in container orchestration platforms, preferably using Kubernetes, and demonstrated by the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certificate • Experience in observability (monitoring, logging, and tracing) for cloud-based environments, using CNCF tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Jaeger, or SaaS tools such as Datadog • Proficiency in operating public cloud services using infrastructure-as-code tools like Crossplane, Terraform or CloudFormation • Expertise in maintaining self-service CI/CD platforms and supporting techniques like Trunk-Based development, GitOps-based deployments, or automated canary releases • Experience with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL) • Business-level communication in English • Strong knowledge of fundamental AWS services with a certification as an AWS Associate or above (preferred) • Passion for staying up-to-date with the latest industry topics in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), DevOps, and the AWS Well-Architected Framework (preferred) • Knowledge of common application architecture patterns: distributed systems, microservices, asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, and others (preferred) • Experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators at scale with Golang in AWS, GCP, Azure, or On-prem (preferred)