DevOps Engineer

About Toughbyte

At Toughbyte we're changing the way companies and developers find each other. By having our own platform and a distributed team of recruiters, we're able to combine automation with a highly personalized service to both candidates and companies we work with. This, together with our culture of experimentation and constant improvement and the promises we make to our clients, ensure that the candidates we work with find the job they want and the companies the talent they need as quickly as possible.

Position

Company

Volkswagen Digital Solutions (VWDS) is boosting VW Group’s Digital journey.

Innovating by exploring new paths through new learnings and ideas. Companie's vision is to inspire and transform the future of IT in the VW Group.

Technology-driven trends such as diverse mobility, electrification and connectivity will revolutionize the mobility industry in the next decade. Volkswagen Group, as a world leader in the automotive industry, is setting the pace for this revolution.

Description

Tasks:

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability
• Work with stakeholders including the Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
• Keep the data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centres and AWS regions
• Actively contribute to tech and architecture decisions
• Implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines
• Understand and implement principles around security, logging and monitoring running products
• Automate application build processes
• Automate OS and application deployments (server, configurations, application code)
• Take part in the applications development lifecycle assisting developers to build, debug and deploy our product and services as well as sort connectivity issues altogether

Your qualification

• Willingness to move to Portugal
• Agile mindset
• Fluent English
• 2-4 years of relevant experience
• Linux administration experience
• Experience with AWS services such as CloudFormation, EC2, s3, EFS, Data Pipeline, RDS, Route 53
• Understanding of Serverless Architecture
• Understanding of Application clustering / load balancing / high availability concepts and technologies
• Experience designing/building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with version control software
• Leverage scripting to build required automation and tools on an ad-hoc basis
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like HTTP, SSL, ANT, JDBC, Servlet/JSP, SQL, XML, JSON, HTML
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with dashboard, log management and monitoring tools. (e.g. Newrelic, Cloudwatch, Splunk, etc.)
• Experience in Operational Readiness (Functionality, Reliability, Usability, Efficiency, Changeability, Transferability)
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Familiarity with automated testing methodologies, and continuous integration concepts

Will be a plus

• First programming experience in C
• First experience in IT Service Management (ITIL)

What we offer

• Relocation package
• Discounts on VW group cars
• Life and Health Insurance plans (life insurance, etc)
• Pension found
• Flexible working hours
• 22 days of vacations per year
• Laptop and iPhone

Additional details

Interview process:

• Intro call with Toughbyte
• Phone call, 15-minute culture fit interview (motivation, communication, way of working in a team, dealing with problems, manage conflicts)
• Coding challenge (the assignment will be sent to the candidate has a week to complete it)
• Tech interview, including the coding challenge discussion