DevOps Engineer (Remote, Greece & Cyprus)

What you'll do and how you'll make an impact:

Learning is the only human superpower. It’s a gateway through which knowledge becomes a virtue, a value, a product, a skill, a prerequisite, a motive, and a competitive advantage.

LearnWorlds’ vision is to enable individuals, businesses, and communities to leverage the power of learning, improving lives and cultivating a brighter, more resilient future for everyone.

Our mission is to stand out as the ultimate adaptable e-learning solution, tailored to meet the diverse, advanced and intricate business models of contemporary organizations.

We are committed to delivering unmatched flexibility in our offerings, ensuring that businesses, individuals, and communities can effortlessly embrace knowledge empowerment as a cornerstone of their growth and success.

The cloud-based e-learning platform offers tailor-made solutions, from creating whole e-learning websites to author online courses as well as providing the right tools to sell them on a B2B/B2C function. Today, LearnWorlds has c.10.000 customers in more than 140 countries and our team is fully remote. However, we also offer the option of working from the office for those who want to mix things up. We have offices in Athens, Crete, and Limassol.

Role Purpose

Join our dynamic Engineering Team and support the frequent development and introduction of new features that make our customers' experience even better. As a Mid-level DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for improving LearnWorlds day-to-day operations and infrastructure. You should be comfortable working in a team environment and will be required to present with confidence and champion work to completion. Our team is tight and includes experienced engineers from all types of backgrounds and profiles that work together towards the same goal, always as one.

What matters the most to us is the ability to deploy your curiosity, learning aptitude, and potential to grow. We're also looking for people who are not afraid to make judgment calls and be smart decision-makers, rather than passive players waiting for the next assignment. We have a startup mentality and love getting things done quickly. We are always very busy, so if you love being productive, and proactive, and pushing code to production frequently, you will feel right at home.

Our platform stack uses multiple technologies such as PHP, Go, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Redis. We are currently using Google Cloud Platform and use services such as Kubernetes, Cloud Compute Engine, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, BigTable, and Firebase.

Typical Tasks & Activities

• Work closely with CI/CD tools, such as GitLab CI, to ensure our infrastructure deployment process is highly efficient, reliable, and scalable.
• Monitor the performance and reliability of customer-facing production services and asynchronous jobs.
• Manage and improve the internal tools and processes used for deploying and testing code, enhancing the team's productivity and reducing time-to-market.
• Thrive in a dynamic GCP scalable production environment, responsible for hosting and maintaining multiple services with high availability and fault tolerance.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional team members to troubleshoot and identify any bottlenecks or limitations in our engineering tools or build pipeline, proposing and implementing effective solutions.
• Embrace a startup mentality and strive to efficiently accomplish tasks. Our product roadmap keeps us busy, so if you enjoy being productive, proactive, and frequently deploying code to production, you will feel right at home

Requirements

Must- have

• 2-3 years of experience in a production engineering or devops role with a focus on optimizing software development and deployment processes.
• Proficient understanding of Kubernetes, Helm, and other cloud-native technologies.
• Proven experience in managing a production Kafka cluster.
• Experience with adding and maintaining monitoring and observability tools to ensure the availability, performance, and reliability of systems and applications.
• Hands-on experience working with container technology such as Docker and Podman, including setting up and managing containerized environments.
• Strong coding and scripting skills, using Bash, Go, or other relevant languages, to automate tasks, improve system performance, and ensure efficient operation of infrastructure.

Nice-to-have

• Previous experience working in a cloud-native architecture on a platform such as GCP or AWS, leveraging cloud services, containers, and microservices to build scalable and resilient applications.
• Google Cloud, Kubernetes Administrator, or similar certification
• Past experience with LMS system
• Familiarity with PHP code
• Open-source contributions

Benefits

• Private life and health insurance plan
• Fully remote work if you prefer to work from home, apart from when we have team meetings a few times per year
• Your personal annual training budget
• An annual home office allowance to set up your personal space
• Company laptop & monitor
• 23 days of paid time off
• 3 early summer Fridays in July and August
• A free LearnWorlds School to build and sell your own courses
• Work in one of the globally top 5 e-learning courses platform
• An opportunity to grow alongside us and shape the look and feel of tomorrow's e-learning
• An entrepreneurial, international, and highly motivated team with a flat hierarchy that will both challenge you and help you reach your highest potential
• Annual company retreats (see the video of our latest retreat).