About the company:
Digital Zone is a key regional player and the Iraqi champion in the e-commerce (e-goods) sector, serving millions of customers on daily basis.
In our short lifetime since Digital Zone was founded, we achieved growth and success metrics that are unforeseen in the region, where “stretch for amazing” became our daily business. Our success is outgrowing our capacity, and now is the time where we grow our team.
Our Tech team consists of carefully picked top-notch engineers. Our technical leads are hands-on and battle-tested. We know the formula for great Software Engineering, and we strive to do what it takes to nourish a healthy, productive, and efficient culture.
The Role:
Senior Cloud Engineers work on designing, building, monitoring, and operating our Cloud Infrastructure using modern technologies and proven methodologies, delivering world class stability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and health metrics. Cloud Engineers work very closely with our Software Engineering team to improve our internal processes and our value delivery to our users.
This is a great opportunity for a passionate highly-capable individual who looks for a constant stream of challenges, and a fast-tracked career development.
Who we’re looking for:
This is the right role for you if
- You look at challenges as a source of motivation, with a curiosity driven mindset.
- You have a high bar for knowledge management (documentation), and organizational responsibilities (time-management, reporting, communication).
- You take ownership of your work and its impact.
- You communicate and collaborate proactively.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and can take a project from idea/RFC to production.
- You are open-minded, and you look at problems with an engineering-mindset
- You welcome open-dialogue and feedback culture.
Responsibilities:
Infrastructure
- Design, develop, and maintain the implementation of cloud solutions on public clouds i.e. AWS
- Help implement the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable scalability and availability.
- Participate in research & development efforts when it comes to evaluating technology solutions for continuous improvement.
- Develop and maintain automation of cloud tooling and services, to achieve healthy SLA’s with minimal manual maintenance efforts.
- Initiate and maintain our risk management efforts e.g. Backups, High-availability, Disaster Recovery strategies
- Complete Ownership of infrastructure-related needs. Building highly scalable platforms and services that support rapidly growing infrastructural needs in Digital Zone. There’s no instruction book, it’s yours to write. You’ll figure it out, ship it, and iterate.
DevOps
- Work with a team of software engineers to ensure the full delivery of value to our users.
- Contribute in CICD and Automation efforts of our SDLC, maximizing our engineering team’s efficiency and our value throughput.
- Ensure best compatibility between our software and infrastructure solutions
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering or adjacent fields, working with cloud platforms
- 3+ Years of experience working fully remotely with a track record of self-management and accountability.
- Experience in architecting cloud infra solutions on AWS for small-medium scale enterprise applications
- Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, EC2, ELB, RDS, IAM, Cloud Networking, VPC
- Proficiency in at least 1 programming language i.e. Python, Golang
- Experience with cloud observability, monitoring, and alerting tools e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
- Excellent knowledge and experience with SQL-based databases
- Experience with highly-scalable systems in production
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code technologies e.g. Terraform
Preferred Location of Candidate:
UAE based