Middle / Senior DevOps in Domain Product Team

Your expertise:

• System administration work experience 3+ years
• Advanced Linux / Unix experience (preferably Amazon Linux 2023 / Ubuntu / Debian)
• Networking
• Good understanding of OSI Model, TCP / IP protocol suite
• IP addressing and subnetting, Routing concepts
• Strong understanding of DNS system principles
• Experience with containerization systems: Docker (build / tests / deploy)
• Cloud platforms: AWS (Networking, EC2, ECS, RDS, ALB / NLB)
• Databases: PostgreSQL
• Experience with system monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience with CI / CD pipelines (Terraform, Jenkins)
• Experience with centralized logging platforms (OpenSearch) 
• Experience with centralized secret management system (HashiCorp Vault)
• Configuration management knowledge (Puppet)
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge of git and git-flow (variations)
• Understanding of security
• Experience in Python and / or Ruby with a software engineering mindset

Will definitely be a plus: 

• Knowing of configuring package repositories and package building for rpm / deb
• Experience with storage systems (NFS / EFS, iSCSI)
• Experience with high load, high availability and fault tolerance (Nginx, big SQL databases, load balancing, etc.)
• Experience in DDoS mitigation
• Deep understanding of best practices in scalable server-side architecture
• Understanding of Scrum practices

What’s in it for you? 

• Opportunity to deal with top-notch technologies and approaches in a world-leader product company with millions of customers
• Opportunity to make a difference for online privacy, freedom of speech, and net neutrality
• Decent market rate compensation depending on experience and skills
• Developed corporate culture: no micromanagement, culture based on principles of truth, trust, and transparency
• “You build it, you own it” mentality in most contexts
• Support of personal and professional development
  • coverage of costs of external trainings, conferences, professional literature
  • support of experienced colleagues
  • in-house events and trainings
  • regular knowledge sharing in teams
• English classes and speaking clubs
  • Life-balance support
  • truly flexible schedule, no time-tracking at all
  • 25 working days of vacation
  • 5 days of paid sick leave per month (if necessary) without providing a medical certificate
  • generous maternity leave program
• Professionally strong environment, friendly and open atmosphere, ability to influence the product development and recognition for it

You will be involved into: 

• Responsible over development and production environments.
• Follow Infrastructure as a Code principles
• Creation, maintenance, development and automation of services in 7+ data centers
• Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment Pipelines setup
• Deployment and Operations of virtual servers (EC2)
• Deployment and Operations of containerized environments (ECS / Docker)
• Evaluate new approaches and technologies, suggest improvements for the product
• Be engaged in continuous training and self-education in such areas as: English Communication, Technical Knowledge and Skills

About the company and project: 

Namecheap was founded in 2000 on the idea that all people deserve value-priced domains delivered through stellar service. Today Namecheap is a leading ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and web hosting company with over 16 million customers and 19 million domains under management — and we’re just getting started.
Our culture is built on the values that we live every day: the way we work, the way we collaborate with our global network of colleagues and the way we relentlessly innovate solutions that meet the emerging needs of our customers.
We are the Domain Product Team!
The team develops microservices and infrastructure for DNS systems and some related services. Namecheap has been on the market for 24 years and is the 2nd largest domain registry in the world. That’s what you have to work with: you need to host 19,000,000 domains, write logs for everything, and actively monitor the entire infrastructure and the microservices in it operating in 10+ datacenters worldwide.
We need a DevOps specialist to help us evolve on-premise k8s and AWS infrastructures.