DevOps Engineer

RYZ is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work with one of our partners. They are a team of collaborative and creative problem solvers passionate about revolutionizing workforce tech with data-driven product solutions and enduring infrastructure. Currently looking for mission-driven engineers eager to share ideas, take ownership, and get things done.

Key Responsibilities:

- Build and Expand Infrastructure: Enhance AWS infrastructure to support our rapidly growing user base and engineering team.

- Automate and Simplify: Identify repetitive tasks and develop tools to automate them. Simplify complex and error-prone processes with efficient solutions.

- Ensure Security and Compliance: Develop tools and policies that provide engineers with necessary access while maintaining security and compliance.

- Research and Implement Tools: Evaluate, recommend, and integrate new infrastructure and tools to support new product features.

- Monitor and Alert: Implement robust monitoring, logging, and actionable alerting to maintain high operational standards.

- Proactively manage and optimize cloud resources to control costs and maximize efficiency. Participate in on-call rotation and respond to system alerts in a timely manner. Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure business continuity in the event of system failures

Qualifications:

- Kubernetes Expertise: Experience in managing Kubernetes clusters and workloads (AWS EKS preferred) using configuration as code.

- AWS Infrastructure: Experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools (Plumi preferred).

- Events-Based Architecture: Experience working, managing and monitoring platforms based on events architecture (messaging with SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Kafka, RabbitMQ are a plus).

- CI/CD Solutions: Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery systems (Github Actions preferred).

- Docker: Proficiency in building and maintaining Docker images.

- Programming Skills: Proficiency in a high-level programming/scripting language (Python and TypeScript preferred).

- Serverless Experience: knowledge of managing and working with serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, CloudFunctions are a plus)

- Vercel Experience: Experience working with Vercel Data.

- Pipelines: Familiarity with data pipeline infrastructure such as Airflow.

- Monitoring Tools: Experience with Datadog is a plus.Team

- Collaboration: A passion for getting things done and developing features collaboratively with the team.

About RYZ Labs:

RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.

Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.

At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion, and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.

Our values and what to expect:

- Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.- Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.- Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility. - Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone who interacts with RYZ with respect.- Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less- Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way. - Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, and our expectations. The status quo is not good enough and never should be.