Devops Lead

Job Description:

Jeeves is an all-in-one corporate card and expense management platform for startups, enterprises and SMBs around the world. Jeeves has raised over $380M and is backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, CRV, Tencent, Stanford University, Clocktower Ventures and Founders of more than 15 unicorns including David Velez (Nubank), Carlos Garcia (Kavak), Sebastian Mejia (Rappi) and the family office of two FAANG founders.Jeeves’ mission is to become the financial operating system for all global businesses. Since its public launch in March 2021, the company now services more than 3000 clients across 24 countries and 3 continents.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer in our Engineering team, your role on the team will include leading the development and implementation of infrastructure automation, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and monitoring solutions for software applications. 

Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure, collaborating with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability, ensuring system security and compliance and providing technical guidance and mentorship. 

Other desired qualifications may include experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, scripting and programming languages, and various DevOps tools and platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, providing guidance, support, and professional development opportunities.

• Develop and execute the organization's DevOps strategy, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, and deployment automation. using Jenkins and GitOps tools and Groovy scripting.

• Expert level knowledge of orchestration and containerisation tools such as Kubernetes, Helm and GitOps tools.

• Lead efforts to manage infrastructure through code, utilising tools like Terraform, Ansible, to automate provisioning, configuration, and management of infrastructure resources.

• Ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities for critical systems.

• Monitoring system performance and implementing scaling strategies as needed.

• Troubleshooting and resolving system issues and outages.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and security best practices.

• Manage and maintain security standards, digital certificates, SSL/TLS, Key and secrets.

• Designing and implementing infrastructure and deployment automation for microservices.

• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive

Eligibility Criteria:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

• 8+ years experience functioning as Automation Engineer or DevOps Engineer.

• 8+ years experience developing, delivering and operating modern cloud platforms / large scale distributed systems.

• 3-5 years Hands on experience with Cloud automation with Terraform or similar tools. 

• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes, Helm and GitOps tools.

• Demonstrated leadership abilities, including the ability to inspire and motivate team members, foster a positive work environment, and resolve conflicts.

• Relevant certifications (e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus.