DevOps & Cloud Engineer
About Staizen
At Staizen, we live and breathe transformation. We support and guide our clients through the toughest and nitty-gritty parts of building, modernizing, and running digital products and platforms. Transformation is not easy and to be the best partners, we challenge ourselves to constantly practice what we preach in the way we do, build and lead.
The name Staizen is short for “State of Kaizen”, inspired by the Kaizen philosophy of continuous improvement. We are all about getting 1% better every day because sustainable transformation is not about the big bang but manifests in the daily choices that we commit to do every single day.
What we offer
- Get the chance to work on transformation at scale missions for complex industries such as banking, e-commerce, insurance
- Be part of our internal product development and build the next generation of productivity tools for customers
- Be part of exciting communities where you can collaborate, grow and learn across the board
- We are remote-first with global operations across Belgium, Luxembourg, Philippines, Singapore, and Cyprus, with optional co-working spaces for the team
Perks & Benefits
- 1% better yearly budget - your personal growth & learning fund
- Co-working spaces - for the times when you want to spice up and change environments
- Remote set-up budget - to get you up and running wherever you decide to work
- Team-up budget - Monthly lunch/dinner budget for physical or virtual team bonding
- Good medical coverage - so you don’t have to worry about your health
- Flexitime - We follow the standard business hours, but we trust you to find your most productive time
Role Responsibilities
- Design and deliver technical solutions in DevOps and public cloud technology domains
- Support the development of more junior colleagues through design and code review and mentoring
- Support other teams in the delivery of their objectives using the full range of Agile and DevOps disciplines, methodologies and tools
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including clients and sometimes their customers
- Contribute to a team culture that values openness, collaboration, initiatives, and innovation
- Support the enhancement of Staizen’s internal systems through automation, integration, security and other efforts
Requirements
- Proven expertise in designing and delivering relevant solutions independently; has broad knowledge but some significant gaps; has depth in some areas.
- Solid background in IPv4 networking
- Solid background in Agile software development practices and methods
- Experienced with code review, git (including rebase, merge, squash, etc.), pull requests
- Demonstrable capability and knowledge in several of the following (we’re not expecting you to have expertise in all or even most of these, but some is essential):
· Strong cloud platform knowledge: AWS, Azure
· Modern software development of web or mobile apps using .NET, Java, node, Go
· Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Bicep
· Security expertise: cryptography, OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, TLS, PKI, X509
· Deep networking expertise: VPN, IKE, NAT, IPtables, overlay networking, traffic inspection, WAF, DDoS
· Linux system administration
· Linux container technologies
· Container cluster orchestration platforms (AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Hashicorp Nomad or equivalent)
· Modern hosting architectures including CDNs, traffic acceleration, load balancers, reverse proxies (HAProxy, nginx, etc.), API gateways, serverless platforms)
· Relational database platforms: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, others
· NoSQL platforms: AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, others
· Log monitoring solutions: Splunk, Sumo Logic, Graylog, ELK, others
· Metric monitoring solutions: Prometheus, Grafana, others
· Strong CI/CD technology knowledge: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, etc.
- Open and flexible to work on different programming languages or framework
- Passion for developing robust software and systems and writing maintainable code
So, what do you think?
Are you ready to drive impact and grow with us?
We’re looking for forward thinkers who thrive in an international environment. We have openings across our various communities - Frontend, Backend, DevOps, UX/UI, Quality Assurance, Data & Analytics, and Engineering Management. We can’t wait to meet you, drop us a message, and let’s chat!
