DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer

📋 Job Overview

As a critical and trusted member of the Systems Engineering team, you'll be working side-by-side with software engineers to design and deliver mission critical services and systems. You'll be working with infrastructure and services at scale, utilizing wide variety of cutting edge technologies used to support our high-traffic real-time Freelancer.com marketplace and a range of other business products fully deployed in Amazon Web Services cloud and powered by Nginx, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Consul, Docker, and Kubernetes. It is our mission to build highly resilient, dynamically scaling, self-healing systems by automating and monitoring everything using Terraform, Puppet, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, and Jenkins.

🏢 About Freelancer.com

Freelancer owns Escrow.com, the world’s largest online escrow company with over US$7 billion in transactions secured, powering the sale of jet parts to oil wells. Freelancer also owns Loadshift, a marketplace with more freight on a typical day than the distance from the earth to the moon, with over 650 million kilometres posted since inception.

🎯 The Role

This won't be your typical cog-in-the-machine type of job. If you're a high achiever with talent, looking for something more than a boring job in corporate, want to work with the best and brightest and don't need to be handheld, this is the job for you.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Strong understanding of operating systems, networking and systems architecture;
• Strong experience working with Linux, as well as database, web, and file servers at scale in production environments;
• Strong experience with any cloud, virtualization, and/or container services (AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS ECS)
• Experience working with any configuration management and infrastructure orchestration tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation or Terraform;
• Programming experience with any of Python, Go, PHP,Ruby, Node.js.
• Experience with incident response and security-focused mindset;

🎁 Benefits

• Fast-track your career growth – our meritocratic culture is known for promoting from within and producing industry leaders in tech.
• Delicious Friday lunches from a rotating selection of local restaurants.
• Engaging Weekly Town Halls with global presentations and open Q&A sessions with our CEO (feel free to ask him anything!).
• Hack-a-thons - Get hacking and programming in this quarterly company-wide event where teams create solutions to existing problems and win prizes. The 2-day event is filled with games, events, shows, food and more.
• Our London office is located close to Old Street Underground station