Senior DevOps/SRE

We are looking for a Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer to maintain, improve and scale both our production and testing/staging systems. The role involves both both SysOps and DevOps. The ideal candidate is very practical and knows how to build systems that solve business & engineering needs while keeping complexity to a minimum. We are not a place that wants to try out every new technology because it's cool. Practical needs, arguments and experience (both of your own, and those of the rest of the SysOps team) drive our descisions.

You will report to DevOps/SRE head and work with them in making decisions for how to best implement the systems infrastructure.

You're probably a good fit for this job if you are a self-taught person and it's not the first time you hear about any of the following technologies and protocols and have hands-on experience with at least half of them: Terraform, Kubernetes, Nigx ingress,helm,spinnaker, prometheus, Grafana, http, dns, git, smtp, spf, dkim, jenkins, ci, devops, containerd, docker, aws, ansible, zookeeper, lvm, nfs, redis.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and manage day-to-day operations of Dev/QA/Staging/Production
• Design and implement tools to automate operational processes
• Continuously inspect and monitor development, QA and production operations processes and discuss and advocate possible opportunities for improvement
• Implement performance benchmarking plans pre-release and on production, and produce weekly reports
• Maintain and improve our systems monitoring
• Automate provisioning of all internal and external systems
• Document systems roles and main attributes / features
• Build and manage development and testing environments, assisting software engineers in debugging tricky application issues using innovative tools
• Cultivate best practices within the engineering group
• Implement backup for internal and external systems
• Implement continuous delivery and promotions from/to all environments
• Implement systems for better logging, error reporting and tracking on all environments
• Anticipate tomorrow’s problems and set up proactive monitoring to avoid them

Great pluses:

• Very good knowledge of Python
• Very good knowledge of PHP and NodeJS
• Experience with MySQL Replication and/or other MySQL scalability techniques
• DevOps experience
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• You are fluent in English
• You participate in open-source projects

Who are we?
At Breadfast, we thrive to provide our customers with their everyday essentials and beyond through a consistent, customer-centric, and high-quality shopping experience.

Breadfast is going big! We are domestically and regionally expanding across Egypt, the Middle East and Africa, aspiring to become the best friend of every household in the MEA region. And now we’re building a team of motivated and highly-skilled people that share our vision to help us drive it forward.