Senior DevOps Engineer at Saas Group

At Saas Group, we specialize in acquiring SaaS businesses with a strong product-market fit and annual recurring revenue (ARR) between $2M and $10M. We are particularly attracted to companies with a strong product-led growth strategy, a self-service model with limited operating costs, a remote-first culture, and an international team.

Job Overview

The DevOps Team is responsible for managing Saas Group central infrastructure but also acts as a consultant for our brands. The main idea behind it is to create and maintain a set of central services, like observability, and backups, that our brands can just use instead of managing them on their own. As a member of the team, you will be responsible for creating solutions and supervising the progress as well as assisting the brands with various infrastructure-related projects and tasks.

Responsibilities

• Leading and performing infrastructure-related projects for saas.group brands: maintenance, performance optimization, incident management, migrations to Kubernetes, dockerizing apps, etc
• Assisting saas.group brands in their day-to-day infrastructure tasks: performing upgrades, deployments, configuring CI/CD pipelines, securing the infrastructure, etc
• Automating various aspects of the infrastructure: provisioning, deployments, etc
• Cooperating with the dev team to ensure a high level of availability, stability and security for all applications
• Performing cloud cost optimizations
• Performing on-call duties and incident management best practices

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience as a DevOps/Platform Engineer or SRE;
• You have a good practical knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes;
• You are comfortable with a couple of cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Heroku, Digital Ocean, Hetzner – we run on a multi-cloud infrastructure);
• You have a knowledge of commercial log and observability services like Datadog, New Relic and/or self-hosted observability tools like ELK, and Prometheus;
• You have experience with Cloudflare
• You have experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ;
• You have experience with IaC tools (preferably Terraform);
• You are familiar with CI/CD concepts and methodologies;
• You have experience with Linux (any major distribution);
• You have experience in Relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases (MongoDB) – prior DBA experience would be a great plus
• You can code in any modern scripting language (Python, Ruby, etc)
• You know security best practices
• You have experience with Git tools
• Outstanding communication, stakeholder management skills and a consultative approach