Senior DevOps Engineer
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Job description
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
ABOUT AVID
Avid makes technology and collaborative tools so creators can entertain, inform, educate, and enlighten the world. Our customers are the visionaries behind the most inspiring feature films, television programs, news broadcasts, televised sporting events, music recording and live concerts. To learn how Avid powers greater creators or for more information, visit .
JOB SUMMARY
The Senior DevOps Engineer works with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment of applications on Avid's cloud platform, Avid Content Core, a multi-tenant SaaS running on AWS EKS.
As part of a team composed entirely of senior engineers, the Senior DevOps Engineer will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy and collaborate as a peer with other senior team members, sharing ownership of architectural decisions, cross-training on each other's areas of depth, and raising the bar on engineering practices across the team. As such, the ideal candidate must have experience clearly explaining solutions to complex problems and demonstrate the ability to influence and align other experienced engineers, not just execute independently.
This role is based Remotely in the Philippines and will be following a schedule of 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM (Philippine Standard Time).
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
- Establish and employ GitOps-based Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions)
- Implement industry Continuous Delivery patterns — progressive delivery, blue-green/canary rollouts (Argo Rollouts) and collaboratively work with other members to achieve successful continuous delivery solutions
- Identify manual processes that can be automated, particularly around multi-tenant provisioning and infrastructure-as-code
- Provide last-level technical support as needed
- Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
- Perform root cause analysis for production errors across a multi-tenant SaaS environment
- Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
- Guide teams in designing, building, testing, and deploying changes to existing software, with an eye toward per-tenant isolation and blast-radius containment
- Consider the organization's entire IT infrastructure, networking, security, identity, and observability when making changes and improvements
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, closely related subject, or relevant experience
- 5 or more years of experience designing large and complex cloud environments
- Background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations
- Experience programming in a high-level language such as Python, Go, Java, or similar to script installation, configuration, and provisioning
- Strong understanding of application development methodologies
- Proficient with AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions (or similar CI), Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Istio, ArgoCD
- Experience with GitOps tooling for multi-tenant infrastructure provisioning (Crossplane or similar) a strong plus
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and schema migration practices in a microservices context
- Familiarity with policy-based authorization (OPA) and service mesh security patterns a plus
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
- Ability to clearly articulate design and implementation choices
- Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
- Comfort with collaboration, open communication, and reaching across functional borders
What to look forward to?
- Join a global team and experience a dynamic, collaborative work environment that fosters innovation and growth.
- Remote work model offering flexibility to balance work and life.
- Access to development programs with strong support and mentoring to help you grow and advance within the company.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusivity, and creating a welcoming environment for all employees.
- Attractive benefits package including health & life insurance, referral rewards, and generous leave policies to ensure a healthy work-life balance
Avid is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
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