Senior or Lead DevOps Engineer

As a Senior or Lead DevOps Engineer at Duetto, your primary responsibilities will include designing and implementing tools for our SaaS products, ensuring high reliability and performance of our cloud services, and collaborating with developers to create a seamless production environment. You'll also be integral in promoting a DevOps culture that encourages best practices and automation.

Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles, with a solid understanding of networking, security concepts, and cloud services such as AWS. Familiarity with CI/CD tools, infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, and configuration management tools like Chef is also important. A passion for technology and continuous learning is a plus!

At Duetto, you'll work with a rich technology stack that includes AWS services, Java-based technologies, NoSQL databases like MongoDB, and DevOps tools like Terraform, Chef, and various CI/CD platforms. You'll also engage with container orchestration tools and collaborate with developers using coding languages such as Ruby and JavaScript.

Collaboration is at the heart of the Senior or Lead DevOps Engineer role at Duetto. You’ll work closely with developers to ensure system reliability and security, while also being a champion for DevOps culture within the company. A strong, team-oriented mindset is essential for successfully driving projects and sharing knowledge across teams.

The work culture at Duetto is casual, flexible, and highly collaborative. We embrace diversity and believe that different perspectives lead to better innovations. Our environment encourages creativity and the freedom to explore new ideas while maintaining a strong focus on delivering results and having fun along the way.

When answering this question, discuss your hands-on experience using AWS services like EC2, S3, and Lambda. Highlight specific projects where you've implemented or managed AWS resources, focusing on how you optimized the use of these services for performance, cost-effectiveness, and security.

Emphasize the importance of collaboration and continuous learning. Discuss practical strategies like conducting regular knowledge-sharing sessions, promoting automation in deployment processes, and creating an environment where team members feel comfortable sharing ideas and concerns.

Talk about specific challenges, such as dealing with integration issues or deployment failures. Explain your problem-solving process, including how you identified the root cause and implemented a solution, and any tools or techniques that helped streamline the CI/CD pipeline.

Detail your familiarity with configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, or Ansible. Provide examples of how you've used these tools to automate infrastructure processes, ensuring consistency and reducing errors across environments.

Choose an example that showcases your analytical and troubleshooting skills, discussing the steps you took to isolate the problem, the tools you used, and how you collaborated with team members to resolve the issue promptly and effectively.

Share your commitment to continuous learning by mentioning resources like blogs, webinars, or online courses. Discuss how you actively apply new knowledge in your work and engage with the DevOps community to exchange insights and best practices.

Monitor is vital in identifying performance bottlenecks and ensuring system reliability. Discuss the tools you're familiar with, like Prometheus or DataDog, and share examples of how you've implemented monitoring solutions to mitigate incidents before they affect customers.

Infrastructure as code allows you to manage and provision computing resources through code rather than physical hardware. Discuss your experience using tools like Terraform to create reproducible and version-controlled infrastructure setups, highlighting the benefits it brings in terms of consistency and agility.

Talk about the importance of having rollback strategies and fail-safes in place. Discuss your approach to quickly assess the situation, coordinate with the team to implement a solution, and communicate with stakeholders to minimize impact.

Emphasize the need for policy-driven security and compliance practices. Discuss your experience with tools for managing access permissions, implementing encryption, and regular audits to ensure adherence to security standards, such as SOC2 compliance.