Our client is an education technology company located in the USA that specializes in instructional AI. They are developing an AI-enabled platform that helps students develop and master skills such as critical thinking, writing, and research.
Their mission is to use AI’s power to support educators in applying high-quality teaching practices on a broader scale.
A TIME World’s Top EdTech Company 2024.
Technology set: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, GCP, Python, Terraform.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of commercial experience as an SRE engineer
- Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including provisioning, managing, and optimizing cloud resources for reliability and scalability.
- Proficiency in Terraform (or other IaC tools) for automating cloud infrastructure management and deployment.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes (K8S) and Helm for deploying and managing containerized applications at scale.
- Experience with APM tools such as NewRelic or similar for application monitoring, alerting, and performance troubleshooting.
- Expertise in managing and optimizing relational databases like MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Hands-on experience improving CI/CD pipeline reliability and efficiency, ensuring smooth automated deployments.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation, system management, and troubleshooting.
- Deep understanding of web server configuration and optimization including nginx or similar for handling high traffic and ensuring reliability.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues, including root cause analysis and incident response.
- English — Upper-Intermediate.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure on GCP using Terraform to automate provisioning and configuration management.
- Set up and maintain robust monitoring, alerting, and performance analysis systems ensuring optimal performance and uptime.
- Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot performance and availability of relational database issues ensuring data integrity and high availability.
- Configure and optimize web servers for high availability and scalability, ensuring quick response times and minimal downtime.
- Automate routine operational tasks and infrastructure management
- Troubleshoot critical system issues across web servers and cloud infrastructure, and ensure timely resolution.
We offer:
- Annual paid vacation of 18 working days.
- Extra vacation days for long-lasting cooperation.
- Annual paid illness of 10 days.
- Maternity/Paternity leave.
- The opportunity for sabbatical leave.
- Marriage and Parenthood Package.
- Compensation for sports activities (up to 6000 UAH\year).
- 50 % cost compensation for attending self-development courses.
- Corporate doctor.
- Internal education(corporate library, Udemy courses).
- Career development plan.
- English and Spanish classes.
- Paying taxes and managing PE (Private Entrepreneur).
- Technical equipment.
- Internal Referral program.
- Opportunity to take part in company volunteering activities.
- Sombra is a “Friendly to Veterans” award-holder.