Senior DevOps Engineer
saas.group was founded in 2017 with a simple goal in mind: to help promising, profitable SaaS companies reach their full potential.
We are a fully remote, international team with colleagues in over 31 countries around the world. Our portfolio currently consists of 17 well-known SaaS companies and is continuously growing. We extended our team from 50 to 250+ people in the last 2 years through hiring and acquisitions.
To discover more about us, check out our Candidate's Hub, where you can get an inside look at saas.group, explore our culture, and gain insights into our team. We believe that informed candidates make for stronger hires, and we invite you to explore what sets us apart.
This position is part of our Central DevOps team and available for EU residents.
Position 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, backups or SSO, 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 like;
- 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 in the infrastructure: provisioning, deployments, etc
- Cooperating with dev team to ensure the high level of availability, stability and security for all applications
- Performing cloud costs optimizations
- Performing on call duties and incident management best practices
What you bring to the table
- You have 5+ years of experience as 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, Prometheus;
- You have experience with Cloudflare, 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 have the ability to code in any modern scripting language (Python, Ruby, etc)
- You have knowledge about security best practices
- You have experience with Git tools
- Outstanding communication, stakeholder management skills and a consultative approach
- You are based in the European Union.
What we offer
- Ultimate flexibility: We’re 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like. European time zone preferred.
- Freedom and autonomy: We’re a high-trust team, and you’ll be given lots of independence to solve problems in your own way — with plenty of help from the team when you need it.
- Minimum bureaucracy: We don’t like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable.
- Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
- Unlimited paid time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.