Company Description
Kensaltensi powered by Alkimi is a decentralised programmatic ad platform that aims to restore the value exchange between advertisers, publishers, and users. Our custom solution on the Sui network is fast, scalable, and transparent with 0% fraud and lowest transaction fees. Visit our website at www.alkimi.org to learn more about our unique approach to advertising.
Role
- Be the leader of the devops and system administration team
- Be an individual contributor and be recognized as an expert that the company would look up to in all infrastructure related areas
- Provide architectural inputs and insights for product architecture, recommend appropriate cloud services or self managed open source systems along with suitable commercial and technical justification
- Be able to distinguish and manage contradictions between short term and long term goals while selecting infrastructural components
- Participate in the technical architecture board to whet system architecture proposed for products being built
- Be on top of the latest security vulnerabilities being reported and take proactive steps to ensure security of all of the company’s digital assets
- In case of a security violation, be in the forefront of restoring normalcy, managing the situation and performing the root cause analysis and take appropriate action to prevent repetition
- Build an excellent team of dedicated experts that can manage the company’s growing internet and on-premise resources
- Be responsible for all technical infrastructure of the company
- Be the controller for all technical and other third party cloud services subscribed to by the company
- Create the DevOps department as an excellent service provider with high reliability and quick turn-around time.
- Prepare, implement and keep updated the technical deployment architecture
- Provide troubleshooting support and assistance for production issues
- Take responsibility and be accountable for the reliable working of all production infrastructure with an uptime of over 99.99%. Ensure uptime for other environments such as Dev, QA, and Pre-production, as per the SLAs.
- Have a tight control on the infrastructure costs and ensure that optimal configurations are used and unwanted resources are released.
- Working across engineering teams to enable cost-effective, robust and secure delivery of platform services.
- Providing feedback to help the team understand technical trade-offs at the architecture, design and planning stage, particularly with respect to technical debt, performance, scalability and security.
- Performing the necessary platform development to enable and support the engineering team's goals as they evolve over the feature lifecycle, from defining requirements and specifications, developing proof-of-concepts, to ultimately delivering solutions to end users.
This includes :
Provisioning and maintenance of cloud infrastructure and environmentCreate and maintain CI / CD systems and pipelinesSupporting engineers with training, guidance and standardised protocols for the deployment of new services that apply the relevant best practicesMonitoring system health and managing events, alerting stakeholders when necessaryWorking closely with QA to ensure that systems are engineered such that they are observable and auditable across all relevant dimensions.Guarantee business continuity by ensuring adequate backup is taken as per the requirements of the disaster recovery SLAsEnsure that restoration drills are performed at regular intervals to check preparedness for disaster recovery as well as the quality of backupEnsure the company’s data and databases are well protectedMaintain Deployment architecture and infrastructure documentationKey skills and experience
At a minimum, candidates must have and experience and understanding with :
Experience as a DevOps Architect participating in architecture and design phases of product buildingSoftware development at different stages of product development, particularly early-stage prototypes, to minimum viable productsStrong experience in infrastructure as code (IaC), software development, and continuous integrationProficiency in system administration and Linux administrationCI / CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeBuild etcExperience with Relational and NO-SQL databasesShould be good with Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Microservices architectures.Should have fair idea of Database Administration with MySQL, MondgoDBUnderstanding of networking concepts and protocolsKnowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and KubernetesExperience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Utho, Azure, or GCPAbility to troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely mannerExcellent communication and collaboration skillsRelevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus