Senior Cloud Automation Engineer

About Varjo

Varjo was founded by a team of industry professionals with decades of experience and a vision of seamlessly merging the virtual and real worlds – first for professionals and ultimately for everyone.

All of us at Varjo are on a mission to empower people to do things that are impossible today by merging virtual, augmented and traditional realities. When we’re done, computers will look nothing like they do right now.

Position

We are looking for a seasoned cloud automation engineer who will design, build and maintain automation for our hybrid test and integration environments in the cloud for Varjo services. You will bridge our on-premise environment with the cloud. You will help building and maintaining this bridge and build our test / integration environments in the cloud. You will be working closely with various engineering teams ranging from back-end development to computer vision teams building cloud enabled experiences. As a person you are passionate about building pipelines that help your peer engineers be productive, users to get access to quality cloud experiences fast and QA engineers to work on their tasks continuously and fluently.

This is a full-time position located in Helsinki, Finland. We also support remote working from other cities in Finland. If you are coming from abroad, we will gladly support relocating to the capital of the world's happiest country.

Responsibilities

• You design and code testing and deployment pipelines which bridge our on-premise and cloud environments
• You are a cloud-native, you learned the tools of the trade through several years of working for cloud-based products. You know by heart how to configure and bring up AWS Windows instances
• You will work with your continuous integration and developer colleagues to define what, how and when we automate to achieve a seamless developer experience 
• Seamless developer experience in our context means that whichever area our developers work in they can be confident that their fresh code works as intended both locally and in the cloud thanks to your pipelines 
• You ensure speed and robustness of these pipelines and support these pipelines be it on-premise or in the cloud

Your qualification

• A minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in designing and implementing test and deployment pipelines in a hybrid on-premise + cloud environment
• A minimum of 5 years of experience working with AWS
• Deep and hands-on knowledge of EC2 AMI’s, AWS python API’s, configuration and management tools
• Understanding networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, REST) in AWS context
• System administration and configuration knowledge and experience on both Windows and Linux
• Understanding of cloud architecture: scalability, reliability, isolation, IAM, etc.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines
• We are fluent in Python and Groovy, we expect the same from you, same for Jenkins
• Track record of shipping products with a strong cloud component and being a key individual in the automation effort

Personal:

• Exceptional can-do attitude
• Not afraid to roll up your sleeves to debug and fix issues in our software infrastructure farm, be it local or cloud
• Team player, ability to perform in cross-functional teams and to share knowledge with others
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Good sense of (dark) humor

Will be a plus

• Automated deployment tooling knowledge such as Ansible, chef or puppet
• Azure and/or GCP experience
• Test automation experience with Robot framework

What we offer

• The possibility to shape the future of computing by taking part in creating new state of the art products in virtual and mixed reality
• A startup culture with minimal bureaucracy and maximum opportunity for you to take charge of your work
• Awesome colleagues and team, work with the best, learn from the best
• The possibility to select the tools and methods you want to use to do your job effectively
• Competitive salary in the capital of the world's happiest country
• Premium employee medical coverage with life insurance and disability benefits
• Office located right in the middle of downtown Helsinki and the possibility to work remotely in Finland