DevOps Engineer

At Knowtions, our mission is to improve how people receive and pay for healthcare around the world using deep learning. Our team is building a language-agnostic data science pipeline that makes predictions on top of messy, multilingual health data. Applications of our technology include predicting risk of diseases for clinicians, and detecting fraudulent medical claims for insurers in multiple countries. Ultimately, our goal is to build a sustainable path to ensuring all people, especially those in developing countries, benefit from the healthcare AI revolution. 

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Sr. DevOps Engineer, you would join our team building applications and our healthcare data platform. You will help design, build, and run the cloud and on-premise infrastructure, including both backend (Node.js) and front-end services (React) powering this system. We are looking for an experienced engineer who will bring subject matter expertise, best practices, to wear different hats as needed, from backend and front-end, to DevOps and infrastructure. 

Responsibilities:

- Works closely with internal teams, including, but not limited to, Software Deployment and Support, Customer Service, and Product Development

- Work with dev team to troubleshoot deployment issues

- Works closely with Project Managers, Software Support Engineers and Performance Assurance Leads to plan and implement on-site deployments, upgrades, and performance assurance visits

- Identifies opportunities to standardize and improve the quality of deployments and performance assurance initiatives

- Writes, updates and reviews technical documentation, including but not limited to, pre-configuration, Installation 

- Sign off, trip pre-planning, trip action reports troubleshooting articles, training material, and lessons learned

- 6+ years working experience in software development and/or system administration in IT industries

- Extensive experience working with UNIX/Linux env and good shell scripting skills

- Good understanding of software development, system administration, network management, and security

- Familiar with at least one script language, i.e. Python

- Familiar with Jenkins and Groovy, and with the design of CI/CD pipelines

- Familiar with git-based version control

- Good understanding and experience in Docker, Kubernetes and/or docker swarm installation and management

- Extensive experiences with Cloud platforms, such as AWS and GCP

- Knowledge and experience with logging and monitoring of microservices architecture

- Understanding of Agile/Scrum methods

- Working level verbal and written ability in English 

Nice to have

- Extensive experiences in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and GitOps practices

- Good experiences in Database installing, configuring, and maintaining, i.e. PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cassandra (PostgreSQL preferred)

- Experience with Apache Project Ecosystem (ZooKeeper, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra)