Senior Ruby on Rails DevOps Engineer / Freelance / Part-time / On-call

As a Senior Ruby on Rails DevOps Engineer at Track Concepts, your primary responsibilities include maintaining and optimizing the Ruby on Rails CMS and Direct Carrier Billing platform, managing on-premises infrastructure, implementing and refining CI/CD pipelines, and improving application performance. You will also be expected to ensure security best practices across our infrastructure and codebase while collaborating with various teams to support ongoing features and growth.

Applicants for the Senior Ruby on Rails DevOps Engineer role at Track Concepts should have a minimum of 5 years of Ruby on Rails engineering experience, particularly with DevOps responsibilities. Proficiency in FreeBSD, Jenkins, GitHub, Puppet, TeamCity, and Monit is essential. A strong background in MySQL, including replication and performance tuning, along with a solid understanding of system architecture and security, is also required.

The Senior Ruby on Rails DevOps Engineer position at Track Concepts is designed as a part-time freelance role, requiring 2-3 days of work per week, with flexibility to be on-call when critical issues arise. This setup allows you to maintain a healthy work-life balance while still contributing significantly to our tech operations.

Candidates for the Senior Ruby on Rails DevOps Engineer role should be well-versed in Ruby on Rails, FreeBSD, Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub, Puppet, Monit, and MySQL. Familiarity with Direct Carrier Billing systems is a bonus, as these are crucial to maintaining our robust backend operations.

In the role of Senior Ruby on Rails DevOps Engineer at Track Concepts, you play a vital part in ensuring the stability and performance of applications used by thousands of daily users. Your work will directly contribute to seamless user experiences and overall platform improvements, fostering growth and innovation within the organization.

In your answer, highlight specific projects where you've utilized Ruby on Rails, focusing on the technical challenges you encountered and how your DevOps skills helped overcome those challenges. Emphasize your familiarity with deployment, CI/CD processes, and how you ensure reliability and performance in your Rails applications.

Discuss your approach to application performance optimization, including strategies like query optimization, caching strategies, and monitoring tools. Provide examples from your previous work where you've successfully implemented these strategies to enhance application performance.

In your response, give an overview of your experience with FreeBSD, focusing on how you manage upgrades, security configurations, and performance tuning. Include how you ensure minimal downtime and robust backup processes within the infrastructure.

Share specific experiences where you've used Jenkins or TeamCity to set up CI/CD pipelines. Discuss the importance of automation practices, how they help in reducing errors during deployments, and any challenges you faced while implementing them.

Outline best practices you take to maintain security, including regular audits, code reviews, and the use of security tools. Provide examples of situations where your proactive measures impacted the overall security posture of your projects.

Discuss your approach to responding to on-call alerts, emphasizing your prioritization of issues based on impact, effective communication with your team, and the methods you use to quickly identify and resolve problems to minimize downtime.

In your answer, describe a specific project where you worked with product, backend, or commercial teams. Emphasize communication strategies you employed and how collaboration led to successful outcomes for the project.

Provide insights into common remote work challenges such as communication barriers or time management. Discuss the strategies you’ve implemented to stay connected with your team and maintain productivity, showcasing your adaptability.

Share your commitment to continuous learning through attending conferences, online courses, reading relevant blogs, or participating in developer communities. Highlight specific areas of interest that relate to Ruby on Rails and DevOps.

In your response, succinctly summarize your qualifications, experiences, and passion for tech. Make a compelling case for how your skills align with Track Concepts’ goals and how you can contribute to their mission effectively.