Lead DevOps Engineer

About Kaia

Kaia set out in 2016 with the mission to make effective, evidence-based therapies available to patients who suffer from chronic diseases. As back pain is the number one cause of disability worldwide with over 1 billion affected people, we built our first product, a clinically-proven mind-body therapy app, to help people with back pain.

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Position

Today Kaia has more than 250.000 users across multiple apps and deployments and now Kaia is looking to harden and automate their infrastructure to prepare scaling up further.

Responsibilities

• Define infrastructure strategy with CTO (technical constraints, customer constraints, and regulatory obligations)
• Automate and scale up infrastructure on AWS
• Own uptime, resilience, and security of production environment
• Maintain our server setup and keep software up-to-date
• Work with all teams at Kaia in order to deploy new applications and microservices

Your qualification

• 3+ years experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or equivalent field
• Experience managing and analysing highly-available and distributed software in the cloud (ideally AWS)
• Proficiency in a language like Ruby, Python, Java, or similar
• Able to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks 
• Experience with Orchestration, Docker, and Infrastructure-as-code tools
• Systematic problem-solving approach
• Strong english writing skills

Will be a plus

• Experience with system hardening, pen testing, and white hat hacking
• Experience with scaling up infrastructure to be able to handle millions of users globally
• Understanding of the most fundamental machine learning concepts

What we offer

• Directly shape the future of digital health
• Work with serial entrepreneurs
• Flat hierarchies
• Flexible vacation and working times
• Mario Kart in the office :-)

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Kaia.