What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer position at Kenect?
About Us
Kenect is on a mission to revolutionize customer communication and engagement for businesses across North America. Founded with a deep understanding of the challenges businesses face in connecting with their customers, Kenect helps companies streamline communication, enhance customer satisfaction, and drive growth through its innovative messaging and reputation platform. Trusted by thousands of businesses, our passionate team is committed to building technology that fosters closer connections and helps businesses thrive in a digital-first world.
About the role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be part of the Developer Experience team at Kenect. The goal of this team is to increase self-sufficiency, delivery speed, and software quality for our feature development teams. This role is expected to produce high-quality code for tools, automation, and PoCs. There will also be many opportunities to consult with engineers and engineering leaders on how to best solve difficult problems related to Developer Operations.
What You Will Be Doing
- Enabling a DevOps mindset on all the cross-functional teams, helping engineers to define the infrastructure needed to deploy their applications
- Proactively find ways to improve Kenect's security posture
- Research and evaluate advanced cloud technologies/architecture and proactively recommend tools that can add value to businesses
- Help in defining the latest cloud technology standards and best practices
- Assist with planning cloud migration initiatives, including impact on infrastructure, networks, and security
- Collaborate with architecture for any security-related issues
- Set up application telemetry and performance monitoring and alerting
- Troubleshoot production incidents, participate in post-mortems
- Be in an on-call rotation
- Automate everything, strive to improve the tooling we provide to software engineers
Skills & Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- Experience with containerized environments and container orchestration engines, especially Kubernetes
- 7 years of combined professional experience in cloud/DevOps/SRE with a minimum of 3 years in the cloud
- Profound knowledge of networking and security principles and protocols
- Experience in automation using tools like GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Shell, Python, Terraform, Saltstack, Jinja, CircleCI, NewRelic.
- RDBMS experience, especially PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Google Cloud and Kubernetes
- Multi-region application availability, CDN
- Experience in a fast-growing startup
Our Company Values We Hope You Showcase
- Learn Fast, Go Fast
- Above and Beyond
- Be Optimistic
- Team is Family
- Be Direct
What Kenect Offers!
- Your birthday is a paid day off
- Onsite gym
- Breakroom full of snacks and drinks
- Convenient location next to freeway entrance/exit
Kenect is an equal opportunity employer. We are an organization comprised of people of all kinds of backgrounds, and believe this mix is precisely what makes us strong. All employment decisions at Kenect are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
