System Administrator (offline) to $1800

Tasks and responsibilities:
- Understand the needs and challenges of a client across operations and development, and partner to formulate solutions that support their business and technical strategies and goals
- Recommend and implement solutions. Be hands-on and can work independently;
- Develop solutions encompassing technology, process, and people
- Ensure delivery of exceptional technical solutions;
- Maintain strong expertise and knowledge of current and emerging processes, techniques, and tools;
- Build the DevOps practice within GitLab and drive our thought-leadership externally;
- Identifies and resolves problems on time
- Design, build and maintain the CI/CD infrastructure and tools to deliver new features & fixes
- Work closely with development teams to ensure that solutions are designed with customer user experience, scale/performance, and operability in mind.

Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in a similar position
- Team leadership & supervision experience
- Strong English verbal skills
- Strong troubleshooting skills

Professional requirements:
- Strong knowledge of *nix operational systems & bash scripting
- Proficiency in software engineering tools:
- Knowledge of automation tools/services: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible
- Knowledge of monitoring tools: Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics;
- Knowledge of containerization & orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes, HELM, ArgoCD;
- Knowledge of cloud hosting providers: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Digital Ocean
- Knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and non-relational (Redis, MongoDB, …)
- Knowledge of secrets management: HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager
- Customization of Nginx and Apache server
- Ability to document requirements and specifications

Personal requirements:
- Enthusiastic, Friendly & Pragmatic
- Problem-solving & quality oriented
- Write clean code & follow coding standards; where there is such an expectation
- Strong research skills
- Understanding performance

Optional requirements:
- ELK stack, Sentry
- Message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Gearman, etc.)
- Some experience in developing web applications

Work condition:
- 40h per week
- Work on long-term projects in a friendly team
- Paid day-offs
- Contract with UK-based company
- Accounting services for managing Ukrainian private entrepreneur

About APIBEST

APIBEST is first maintenance company with a team of professional engineers in the field of Information Technology and Web development. At our inception in 2013, we focused on providing high-quality web services and IT-related technical and infrastructure solutions for our customers.

Our current stack and technologies:
- Frameworks: Laravel 5.x, Symfony 2.x/3.x, Magento 2.x, Drupal, Vue.js, Angular, Scrapy
- Frontend: jQuery, Webpack/Gulp, NPM/Yarn, SASS/Less, BEM;
- Languages: PHP, JS, Python, Ruby, Java
- Other technologies: Memcache, Redis, Elasticsearch;
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo
- Automation: Selenium, WebDriver
- Hosting: Digital Ocean, AWS, Google cloud, VPS/VDS in Hetzner datacenter;
- Local development: Docker, Vagrant, Ansible
- Tools: Slack, GitLab, Google Apps
- Orchestration: Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Terraform

Company website:
https://apibest.com