Systems Engineering Manager (DevOps) Kazakhstan or Remote

What You’ll Do

• Develop the Data DevOps discipline:
  • Help unit members in professional growth and career development
  • Develop and implement a long-term plan for the Data DevOps unit
  • Build an organizational and managerial structure in the unit
  • Hire DevOps engineers and provide project staffing
• Guarantee the achievement of the company’s main goals, such as headcount growth, utilization, attrition and wage inflation
• Participate in Data & Analytics practice activities (POCs, MVPs, training, RFPs, Discoveries, etc.)
• Design, build and maintain production systems
• Provide consulting services to application teams looking to build cloud-based applications
• Work with the business in identifying solutions and critical case studies / scenarios

What You Have

• 7 years of professional expertise in DevOps and system engineering
• Hands-on experience with Python and a variety of services in one cloud platform: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Linux / Unix systems administration background
• Competency in infrastructure troubleshooting, performance tuning, optimization and bottleneck problem analysis
• Track record in managing production infrastructure with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, etc
• Proficiency in configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible etc.)
• Advanced skill in one build automation tool (Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, GoCD, etc.)
• Advanced skills in monitoring tools and dashboards (Zabbix, Nagios, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Expertise in authentication and authorization protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, SAML, etc.)
• Solid knowledge of software development life cycle, monitoring and security best practices
• Pre-Intermediate or higher level of spoken English (B1+) 

Technologies

• Operating Systems: Debian / Ubuntu, RedHat / Centos, Windows Server
• Clouds: Azure, AWS, GCP
• Containers and Container platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, AWS ECS, Google Kubernetes Engine(GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), OpenShift, Rancher
• Source Code and Artifacts Management: Gitlab, GitHub, Subversion, BitBucket, Artifactory, Nexus
• Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Delivery: Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, GCP Cloud Build, Azure DevOps
• Infrastructure Provisioning: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager
• Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, AWS OpsWorks Packer
• Programming Languages: Python, Bash, Ruby, Powershell
• Log Management, Monitoring and Analysis: Zabbix, Nagios, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, Google StackDriver, Elastic Stack, Splunk, Sumo Logic, Graylog, Fluentd
• Security: AWS Identity and Access Management, Active Directory, GCP Cloud IAM, Single Sign-on, HashiCorp Vault, Data encryption at Rest and in Transit
• Big Data Tools and Frameworks: Databricks, Snowflake, AWS EMR, Google Cloud Dataproc, Azure Data Factory, Kafka, Airflow, Spark, Hadoop, Yarn, HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, Zookeeper, Cloudera, Hortonworks, etc

We offer

• Outstanding career development opportunities with a transparent roadmap to accelerate your journey
• Knowledge sharing within the community of the industry’s top professionals worldwide
• Various opportunities for self-development: hard & soft skills internal training courses, mentoring programs, and unlimited access to 8,000+ LinkedIn Learning courses
• Free English classes with certified teachers
• Competitive compensation in USD, regular assessments, and salary reviews
• Bonuses for participating in the referral program
• Flexible schedule and opportunity to work remotely from any place in Kazakhstan
• Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
• Relocation opportunities within our offices in 50+ countries with throughout support for you and your family
• 28 vacation days and six trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
• Medical & family care programs, corporate and social events

About EPAM

• EPAM Kazakhstan is a team of technologists and innovators united by a passion for technology. Today we operate across all cities with offices in Astana, Almaty, and Karaganda and work with the world's leading companies from different industries. EPAM builds a continuously learning organization and helps its employees reach their full potential and achieve their professional goals through learning. Our agile methodologies, customer collaboration frameworks, engineering excellence programs, and hybrid teams offer many career paths and development opportunities