Lead DevOps Engineer for a Chemical Company

We are currently looking for a remote Lead DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of DevOps experience, hands-on experience with the AWS platform and excellent Python scripting skills to join our team.

The customer is a Norwegian chemical company that is mainly focused on the production of nitrogen fertilizer, however it also encompasses the production of nitrates, ammonia, urea and other nitrogen-based chemicals.

Please note that even though you are applying for this position, you may be offered other projects to join within EPAM Anywhere.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop the global cloud platform for infrastructure, security and operations
• Empower and support solution teams in getting to production and running stable services
• Organize global operations and incident response process and tooling
• Run and maintain our production infrastructure in AWS (Kubernetes)
• Analyze complex system behavior, performance and application issues within distributed systems generally, and Kubernetes in particular
• Develop monitoring solutions and analysis across multiple data centers
• Conduct capacity analysis and planning, traffic routing and security policies
• Support, guide and educate the development teams on production ready, scalable engineering patterns
• Drive adoption of and adherence to global operations and infrastructure standards in the local development teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of DevOps experience
• Hands-on experience with the AWS platform
• Good command of Kubernetes
• Excellent Python scripting skills
• Terraform experience
• Good knowledge of the agile methodology and experience working in accordance with it
• Prior experience of working with international teams
• 1+ year of relevant leadership experience

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Linux
• Prior experience with Helm
• Istio knowledge and skills
• Experience with any monitoring and observability tools

We offer

• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
• Work on enterprise-level projects on a long-term basis
• Full-time remote work
• Unlimited access to learning resources (EPAM training courses, English classes, Internal Library)
• Community of 38,000+ industry's top professionals