Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Shiji Group provides software solutions and services for the hospitality, food service, retail and entertainment industries, ranging from hotel management solutions, to food and beverage and retail systems, payment gateways, data management, online distribution and more.

Founded in 1998 as a network solutions provider for hotels, and later changed to a software provider for the whole consumer market, Shiji Group today comprises 5,000 employees in 80+ subsidiaries and brands, serving over 91,000 hotels, 200,000 restaurants and 600,000 retail outlets.

Shiji is committed to connecting the global business of hospitality. We provide an integrated suite of technological solutions that empower hotel, retail, food, and entertainment companies to better connect with their guests.

Daylight PMS is a distributed system that serves the hospitality industry. It is a solution that allows hotel employees or hotel managers to handle various activities such as managing reservations, payments and hotel services within the hotel or between hotels. The system consists of many domain-oriented microservices developed under a few cross-functional teams.

· designing and implementing new infrastructure components

· day to day support of developers

· creating new application hosting environments

· maintenance of the existing infrastructure

· Continuous Integration and Deployment

Technologies we use:

· AWS

· Terraform

· Kubernetes

· Ansible

· Elasticsearch

· Kafka

· PostgreSQL

· VictoriaMetrics

· Hashicorp stack

· Gitlab

· Nexus

Our Daily work:

· We use Kanban to manage tasks

· Our teamwork is based on Jira

· We participate in daily, weekly and retro meetings

· We use Gitlab as a code repository with a trunk-based development approach

· We use Gitlab CI to automate our (and other's) jobs

· We build environments in AWS with Terraform/Terragrunt

· We develop deployment solutions for Kubernetes

· We support local environments with Docker/docker-compose (for developers)

· We create libraries, tools and AWS Lambdas in Python

· We create Docker images for automation and internal usage

· We act using the "Everything as Code" philosophy

· We do not release applications to the environments (there is a dedicated team of Release Managers)

· We use MS Teams to spread knowledge and participate in meetings

Our system:

· Our primary cloud service provider is AWS. We use most of the popular services including EC2, S3, RDS, SES, SNS and many more

· We write all of our infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt

· Our application that is written in .NET Core runs on top of Kubernetes cluster deployed in EKS

· We have very large observability stack that includes collecting logs and metrics and visualizing it in Grafana and Kibana

· DevOps Team are also responsible for managing GitLab, Jenkins and Nexus

· We write our internal tool set using Python and Golang

Key Areas of Responsibility:

· Co-deciding on the direction of technological development for the team

· Designing the cloud infrastructure (including complex solutions using Kubernetes)

· Building the infrastructure itself

· Ensuring the security of the infrastructure

· Mentoring less experienced colleagues (both technically and non-technically)

Requirements

Qualifications

· Minimum 3 years of commercial experience in AWS and Kubernetes

· Minimum 1 year of commercial experience in Terraform

· Experience in GNU Linux

· Experience with CI/CD process using Jenkins or Gitlab

· Team player

· Opennes to new technologies and paradigms

· Ability to investigate and analyze information and to draw conclusions

· The drive to solve any challenge that is thrown your way

· Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have:

· Certification in AWS or Kubernetes

Benefits

Health & Safety

• Private medical care with dentists package for you and your family
  
• Group life insurance for you and your partner
  
• Multisport card as part of the Worksmile package
  

Working conditions & Development

• Dell laptop, keyboard, mouse, wireless headphones and monitor
  
• 40h for development during work time
  
• Free access to group language lessons
  
• In-house workshops, training sessions or meet-ups
  
• Access to platforms like: OpenUp, Pluralsight and GoodHabitz
  

Extras you may like

• Worksmile cafeteria and 520 points per month to be used in vouchers
  
• Referral bonus if new employee is referred
  
• Chill room with table football & PlayStation
  
• Free snacks (every day)
  
• Team building events