POSITION TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer
BUSINESS UNIT: Engineering
LOCATION: Brazil (Remote)
SUMMARY:
Owlet is changing the world of parenting with meaningful products that truly make a difference for millions around the world. Owlet has helped more than a million parents keep their children safe while bringing joy and sleep to the parenting journey. We believe every parent deserves the peace of mind that comes with a better understanding of their baby's needs.
We are looking for a dedicated professional for a long-term contractor position based outside of the United States, ideally in Brazil. This is a freelance/contractor role, depending on local employment laws, without benefits such as healthcare or paid time off, but with the potential for a stable, ongoing working relationship. Ideal for candidates seeking consistent, project-based work with a focus on long-term collaboration.
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll partner with the platform team to bring to life tooling and automation that power our production services and the development cycle. You'll shape areas like infrastructure orchestration, continuous integration, security, configuration/change management, and participate in incident management. With a passion for innovation and an instinct for reliability and scalability, you'll automate yourself out of manual and repetitive tasks. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a passionate engineering team creating solutions that change lives.
Learn more about our amazing mission at https://www.owletcare.com/ PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Deploy and maintain performant and secure applications in a multi-cluster Kubernetes environmentIncrease visibility into our platform through automation, infrastructure-as-code, and effective monitoring and alertingCreate and maintain CICD pipelines to increase the quality and velocity of deploymentsBuild internal tools to increase developer productivity and grow our DevOps cultureCollaborate with the platform team to ensure our infrastructure supports new functionality and validate their scalability, reliability, and security requirementsUtilize great debugging skills to investigate and solve hard-to-reproduce problemsParticipate in an on-call rotation to ensure stellar uptime for our customersAnalyze the current infrastructure to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvementDrive architecture, infrastructure, and security best practicesCreate and maintain documentation of all architecture design and analysis work REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS: Proven experience (5+ years) exercising DevOps principles, with a strong portfolio showcasing successful infrastructure managementExperience maintaining highly available production services with a distributed architectureStrong understanding of Linux systems, networking, security, and memory management fundamentalsStrong understanding of document-based and SQL databasesExperience with major cloud providers like GCP and AWSExperience building and maintaining pipelines with CICD tools like Codefresh, GitHub Actions or CircleCIExperience with monitoring services and tools like Datadog, NewRelic, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalentExcellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to rapidly troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issuesThe ability to explain your ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and work well with team membersAbility to rapidly iterate from prototype to production-grade implementationPrior experience working in an agile development environmentPride in the craft of DevOps, your unique views, and original ideas BONUS SKILLS: CKA[D] certificationExperience working with Google Cloud PlatformExperience with large-scale, cross-cloud provider migrationsExperience managing an ELK stackFamiliarity with Google Firebase