Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Description
<p><strong>About us</strong></p><p><br></p><p>4Sale is one of the largest online marketplaces in the Middle East, and easily Kuwait’s largest marketplace. We connect millions of users to hundreds of thousands of listings on any given day, through our mobile apps as well as our website: http://q84sale.com.</p><p><br></p><p>We’re established, profitable, and comfortably fund our own expansion with no outside help.</p><p><br></p><p>While most of our customer base is located in the Gulf, the bulk of 4Sale’s headcount actually operates and makes decisions out of none other than Zamalek, Cairo, where we have a beautiful office, and employ some of the most impressive people in Egypt’s Tech landscape.</p><p><br></p><p>We’re already winning in Kuwait, but to us, the sky’s the limit and we won’t stop innovating on behalf of our customers.</p><p><br></p><p>To that end, we’re expanding our business lines and breadth of operations, and of course, we’re constantly refining our products so that they are seamless, fun, and useful. This is not easy to do! In fact, it’s a ton of work. Which is why we need the most talented people in the country to come and help us out. After all, our mission is to <strong>become the largest online marketplace in the Middle East.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>We’re pretty selective though, so expect to be challenged and stretched. Also, <strong>expect to be in the office with us a lot – we can only build great products if we’re actually together.</strong> We only hire exceptional people, so if you think you’re one of us, go ahead and apply – see you at the interview!</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About You</strong></p><p><br></p><p>If you’re a great fit at 4Sale, then you’re most likely intense, ambitious, energetic, and have an endless thirst for achievement. You love challenges, embrace difficulties, hate wasting time, and only want to join a place if it means you’re making history. You walk through the fire to get the job done. There is no skill or tool that you will not master if it means making our products better. In short, you are exceptional.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Work with cross-functional teams to ensure efficiency and agility throughout the software development lifecycle.</li><li>Participate in Building, maintaining, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines that may include complex logic.</li><li>Participate in building and maintaining various environments to support development and production activities.</li><li>Building an incident management process.</li><li>Create your own charts. Where it’s necessary to use loops, conditions, and functions to reduce the amount of code and templates must be readable.</li><li>Managed Kubernetes cluster services and was able to understand a Well-architected framework and build infrastructure around it.</li><li>Ability to find and apply “effective solutions” to emerging problems and challenges.</li><li>Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team.</li><li>Despite having regular work hours, the desired candidate should be able to be part of on-call rotations.</li><li>Participate in the preparation of system infrastructure using different tools and platforms including Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Requirements/Qualifications</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering from a reputable university. </li><li>Experience with popular tracing systems: ELK, APM, etc.</li><li>Strong Linux package management and system security.</li><li>Solid experience scripting with bash/python or other scripting languages.</li><li>Good knowledge of networking protocols, and troubleshooting skills.</li><li>Solid experience in Kubernetes and deploying containerized live production environments.</li><li>Solid experience working with AWS (EC2, RDS, IAM, and ALB).</li></ul>
