Senior DevOps Engineer

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DevOps
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About Living Homes

Living Homes is a pioneering Smart Home company and an Applied Research & Development Lab on a mission to conceptualize and create the truly intelligent human-centric Home of the Future. We are building the next-generation AI-driven home management platform that seamlessly integrates IoT, Robotics, Virtual Reality, Cloud and Edge Computing technologies. This platform makes the Home of the Future truly intuitive, comfortable, caring and adaptive to its inhabitants’ needs.

Our R&D team comprises of 20 highly skilled and experienced technology, product, and business professionals. The team is uniquely positioned for success as our colleagues have long-term professional experience (14 years on average) with strong expertise in all relevant areas, including AI/ML, IoT, VR, Robotics, Cloud-native Development and Smart Home.

Role Overview

We are on the lookout for an experienced Senior DevOpsEngineer to join our development team in Sofia. In this role you will be at theheart of developing our AI-driven home management platform. We are looking fora highly skilled, autonomous, and initiative-taking professional withsignificant experience in designing and automating CI/CD pipelines as well asmanaging the entire platform’s infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines for custom applications that are part of our AI-driven home management platform
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and ongoing maintenance to ensure seamless operation within the cloud environment (both public and private)
  • Deploy and manage distributed applications, set up auto-scaling policies within a Kubernetes orchestration platform
  • Oversee centralized configuration management for both operating systems and deployed applications, ensuring consistency and reliability
  • Maintain a centralized solution for logging and metric monitoring to enable visibility and proactive issue management
  • Develop and drive the DevOps practices within the team, including CI/CD pipeline enhancements, scripting and container environment modifications
  • Assist in assessing promising technologies
  • Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design specifications, and developer guidelines
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of our application development lifecycle

Qualifications and Skills

To be successful in this role, we believe a mix of technical and soft skills is required. Below, you can see what we think are the characteristics of the 'ideal candidate':

  • DevOps expertise: 5 or more years of DevOps experience, preferably in complex application development projects. Experience with public cloud platforms (preferably with MicrosoftAzure), Containerization, IaC, and CI/CD
  • Infrastructure as Code: In-depth knowledge of building IaC with Terraform
  • Scripting Skills: Skilled in scripting with Python, Bash and PowerShell
  • Micro-services expertise: Practical experience in managing micro-services, with a solid understanding of micro-service architectures
  • Experience with Containers and Container orchestration systems: Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AKS and others
  • Relational databases:  Hands-on experience with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • OS & Networking: Strong experience with Linux/Unix environments, comfortable with shell scriptingand command-line utilization, very good understanding of networking fundamentals
  • Smart Home & IoT technologies: Keen interest in Smart Home and IoT technologies, with a desire to create innovative smart living solutions. Experience in these areas is a big advantage
  • Independence and initiative: Ability and willingness to work independently, to proactively confront challenges, and to adapt to rapidly changing project demands
  • Problem-solving and analytical thinking: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a passion for identifying issues and for conceptualizing, evaluating and implementing solutions
  • Language skills: Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Communication skills: Very good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts, problem statements and solutions to diverse audiences, including non-technical stakeholders

Living Homes Benefits

  • Paid leave: Benefit from 25 days of paid leave, ensuring you have ample time to recharge
  • Sports card: Stay active and healthy with a subsidized sports subscription card with various options for sports activities
  • Additional health insurance package: Enjoy an additional health insurance package covered in full by the company
  • Food vouchers: 200 BGN worth of groceries and food vouchers are provided on top of your monthly salary
  • Convenient office location: Our office in Sofia is located at a very convenient and well-connected area, right next to the Joliot-Curie underground station
  • Food and drinks at the office: Enjoy fresh fruits, snacks, and beverages available daily to keep you energized and refreshed at work
  • Flexibility: Take advantage of our flexible working time and home office options
  • Hardware and software tools and gadgets: Use the chance for experimenting and working with the latest hardware and software technologies available worldwide that you might need
  • Professional development: We foster continuous learning and professional upskilling of our team members through workshops, courses, certifications and participation in international conferences and expo events
  • Collaborative team environment: Join a friendly team of motivated, talented and experienced IT, product, and business professionals
  • Beyond work: Have fun and build strong personal relations at our regular team-building activities and organized social events