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DevOps Engineer

Street addresses weren’t designed for 2024. They aren’t accurate enough to specify building entrances, and they don’t exist for parks, rural areas and many parts of the world. This makes it hard to find places and causes problems and inefficiencies on a global scale.

That’s why we created what3words. We divided the world into 3m squares and gave each square a unique combination of three words. It’s the easiest way to find and share precise locations.

Life on the what3words tech team is innovative, Agile and fast-paced. You’ll be joining a group of talented people from all over the world on an unprecedented journey. Every day brings new challenges, and we are continually learning.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer passionate about writing code, infrastructure, networking, automation, modern CI/CD, cloud native platforms and monitoring. Someone who is experienced with creating and scaling robust, secure and highly available infrastructure platforms and is able to work in autonomy or as part of a team.

At what3words, we're proud of our tech stack. We have built a scalable, microservices-based architecture, based around Kubernetes on AWS. You'll be exposed to technologies such as AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Consul, Datadog, Python, Docker, CircleCI, GitHub, FluxCD, Atlantis and Slack.

This is a great opportunity to join a collaborative, ambitious and Agile team, at one of the most exciting times in this company's life.

Requirements

This role will focus primarily on the maintenance of our core infrastructure and platform, which host our applications, help create tooling for engineers to use to interact with the platform and continually improve our DevOps process and toolchain.

Essential Skills:

5+ years experience in a DevOps environment
AWS experience (EKS, S3, Lambda, Cloudfront, RDS)
Container services (Kubernetes, Docker, Kustomize)
Infrastructure as code (Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt)
Linux system administration
Scripting (Bash, Python)
Git/GitHub
Experience with CI/CD (we use GitOps, GitHub actions, CircleCI and Flux)
Networking fundamentals

Desirable Skills:

Systems/Network/Platform security
Observability platforms (Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana)
GCP
Kubernetes Service Mesh (Consul, Istio, Linkerd)

You will have:

Excellent communication skills with perfect spoken and written English
Ability to work independently on significant features over several sprints seeing work through shipping
Able to work directly with PMs/QA/client teams to define requirements
Keen to own things and work end-to-end on features
The ability to work both independently and with others
A focus on high-quality software engineering work and attention to detail
The ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

The role is based in our centrally located HCMC office. While you can work from the office five days a week if preferred, our Engineering team can choose to work up to two days a week from home. We also offer a six-week remote-work allowance; for up to six weeks a year, you can work from anywhere in the world (as long as you’ve got great WiFi and are happy to work with your main office timezone).

Equality, diversity and inclusion at what3words

Our mission is to help everyone talk about everywhere, and we believe diverse perspectives make for a better company and better products too. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups and are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our hiring processes and company culture.

Benefits

We offer the following benefits to all permanent employees of what3words: