Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the Continuous Integration & Delivery platform:

• Define, deploy and monitor the health our job runners

• Document best practices for: secure code management, lowering build times, ensuring tests cover all-important business logic and functionality…

• Create the tools necessary to quickly create new application CI/CD workflows

• Assist developers with troubleshooting CI & delivery issues

• Ensure and improve the platform security (credentials anonymity, scalability, platform resilience, disaster recovery strategies...)

• Design and maintain the way of working for the containerized platforms:

  • Document and create tools for app and service definition (Kubernetes Helm charts)

  • Standardize and document how to connect and discover external components (databases, authentication, storage...)

  • Enforce proper management of authentication (TLS certificates, component credentials)

  • Provide the tools and documentation to monitor and maintain reports of application and services health

  • Build tools and tests to determine overall system availability and performance bottlenecks, and work with developers to overcome them.

• Continuous research, evaluation, and demoing of new technologies in order to improve products and services

• Provide instructions for maintaining Midokura IT infrastructure

Desired Skills and Experience

We believe you will thrive in Midokura if you possess a mix of some of the following skills and experiences:

• Ability to work as part of a team

• Good communication skills

• Experience in Linux administration and containers (Docker, containerd,...)

• Experience dealing with CI & CD systems (Github Actions, Travis, Jenkins,…)

• Designing, developing & maintaining distributed systems:

  • High Availability

  • Fault Tolerance

  • Consistency

  • Replication

• Kubernetes management:

  • Cluster & Service management

  • DNS and service discovery

  • Job management

  • Helm chart creation

  • Troubleshooting, monitoring and log inspection

• Monitoring and managing production environment health status, lowering outages and data loss.

• Database administration, backup and recovery.

• Familiarity with one of the major public cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP)

• Networking (knowledge of major protocols, debugging network issues, configuring appliances…)

• Scripting and Software Development (Python, bash, …)

• Network security

• PKI & TLS certificate management

These skills will be a plus

• Database Administration: Cassandra and PostgreSQL.

• Object storage: Minio

• IoT device management experience

• Realtime Operating Systems (Nuttx, FreeRTOS…)

• Core software development skills (C, C++, Java)

• Machine Learning libraries experience (Tensorflow, Pytorch, …)

Education

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Other Requirements

• EU Residence (Mandatory)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English (Full Professional Proficiency)

• Spanish or Japanese as a plus

• Job location in Barcelona (Spain)