Description

Atypon (www.atypon.com) is a software and services company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, renowned for its technological leadership when it comes to online delivery of professional/scholarly publisher content. We are the market leader in content delivery for scientific, technical and medical publications.

We are looking for a passionate, experienced DevOps professional, who is willing to work in a multicultural environment to develop mission-critical applications for international publishers.

Joining the Athens-based engineering department, you will work closely with the local DevOps team and collaborate with others distributed around the globe, to create DevOps-aligned software and solutions. Ideal candidate is a self-reliant person with passion for technology, coupled with insightful skills and breakthrough ideas.

You will be responsible for:

• Automating complex deployments and enhancing existing code and process
• Scaling our services for a large number of clients of varying size

• Automating the operational and monitoring aspects of large-scale distributed systems
• Building, improving Continuous Integration pipelines
• Integrating monitoring systems as part of the deployment
• Managing and expand our existing Dockerized services
• Migrating legacy architecture and deployment pipelines to Kubernetes
• Evaluating and introducing new tools

You will be working with technologies that include Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Solr, ELK, Kafka, Redis, Docker and Kubernetes.

Requirements

Required Professional Experience and Skills

• University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar faculties
• 3+ years of working experience in a similar role
• Demonstrated experience with deploying and monitoring systems in production
• Knowledge and understanding of web applications
• Experience in Unix/Linux system administration skills
• Experience with source control tools (git/svn)
• Experience with build tools (Maven, Gradle) and Jenkins
• Experience using at least one dynamic scripting language (Python, Groovy, Bash)
• Experience using configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack, Chef)
• Experience with containerized virtualization (Docker, LXC)

Desired Experience and Skills

• Experience with AWS/EC2, Google Compute or Azure clouds
• Experience with Schedulers / Orchestration systems such as Kubernetes / OpenShift / RunDeck
• Exposure to Solr, Elasticsearch
• Exposure to messaging infrastructure (Kafka, ActiveMQ)
• Exposure to ELK stack (Logstash, Kibana)
• Demonstrated knowledge of SaaS, IaaS
• Expertise in the Java Development area will be further appreciated

Benefits

Our benefits package includes:

• Unique opportunity to work with a Silicon Valley technology company in Athens
• Work in a team of most talented engineers and tech leaders
• Competitive compensation package
• Private health insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Work from home possibilities
• Merit-based performance evaluation and objective setting
• On-the-job training and career growth opportunities
• Early Fridays during summer
• Extended paid parental leave