Azure Cloud System Engineer

About Payever

We´re building payever as an open commerce platform for people to buy, sell and exchange directly.

We believe that today you need to be an expert in Marketing, Design, IT, Venture Capital and even Accounting to run a successful business. For average people it´s impossible to compete against large commerce giants who control and increasingly prevent self employment worldwide. Our ultimate goal is to free commerce and make buying and selling easier for everyone.

Position

• Administer servers/services in Microsoft Azure
• Responsible for planning, provisioning, tuning, configuring systems
• Investigate failures, fix them and execute root-cause analysis; must take ownership of problems and communicate progress in a timely and effective manner
• Determines how existing applications, legacy systems, databases, web interfaces, and/or hardware logic which may be currently operating on multiple platforms, work with internal teams to meet the new and emerging business requirements in the cloud 
• Interact with and effectively communicate with your DevOps colleagues and cross-functional teams to complete the assigned projects or support
• Researches and evaluate emerging cloud technologies and proactively recommend areas where they can bring business value
• Deploy and maintain a cloud network data center infrastructure and processes necessary
• Configure (through automation) infrastructure and applications for high performance and highly available operation to meet business needs
• Monitor and improve performance and stability

Your qualification

• MS/BS in Information Technology/Systems, Computer Science, or engineering 
• 2+ years of experience in Microsoft Azure 
• 7+ years of Linux experience
• Proven track record in architecting/supporting cloud infrastructure for highly available, highly scalable, multi-tier web-based systems 
• Experience in security cloud computing and PCI DSS compliance
• Strong understanding of best practices for secure systems design
• In-depth knowledge of the concepts of Infrastructure as Code, Automation, and Orchestration
• Strong hands on experience with configuration management tools like Ansible or CloudFormation
• Advanced level in scripting languages, Bash and/or Python or Ruby
• Knowledge of Active Directory, git, GlusterFS, nginx and php-fpm
• Knowledge of Linux KVM virtualization
• Experience in clustering and security audit
• General understanding of Microservices, with preference of Docker
• Networking experience in routing, firewalls and HA architecture
• Great working knowledge of IP networking, VPN’s, DNS, load balancing and volume scaling
• Configuration and maintenance of common applications and protocols
• Experience with MySQL and NoSQL such as Elasticsearch preferred
• Experience working with remote and distributed teams 
• Experience managing teams and building processes

Who you are:

• You’re fluent in English, and a good communicator
• You’re a problem solver, and approach obstacles with a logical, pragmatic approach
• You have enthusiasm and ability to quickly learn new tools and technology
• You possess a collaborative, open-minded and helpful approach to teamwork
• You’re motivated and a self-starter, someone who’s always looking for ways to improve things
• You’re able to organise and work with multiple projects and different deadlines

What we offer

• Our Team
  Our people are our best feature. We help each other out, laugh, help, support, and discuss everyone’s point of view, in an agile way
• Flat structure and full transparency
  Flat hierarchies and short decision paths mean that more of your ideas are heard, and turned into realities. Less bureaucracy, more results!
• Focus on your growth
  Clear career path from the start, access to learning material and a plan for your professional growth, so you’ll always know what to expect
• Competitive pay rates
  We want our talent to be able to fully concentrate on their work. Which is why make sure you are paid well and on time

Additional details

We’re now 4 years old, but we’re hungry like it’s Day One - we still have the same big dreams and are looking for your help to achieve them!