Location: Remote (Ukraine)

Your expertise:

• Experience in a similar position (Lead / Head of Dev Ops, Dev Ops Architect) of 5 years or more, including team management experience
• Strong knowledge of Dev Ops principles and CI / CD best practices
• Strong technical background with at least one of the following languages: Java Script / Go / Java / PHP / Python
• Good understanding of SQL / No-SQL databases, Message Brokers, and their principles
• Distributed systems understanding, principles & patterns
• Strong knowledge of Linux (provisioning, bash scripting, patching)
• Understanding Logging, Monitoring, Alerting
• Network fundamentals
• Proficient experience in Docker
• Production experience with one of the container orchestration systems, like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS ECS, etc.
• Mastery of AWS services and cloud architecture
• Familiarity with infrastructure as a code concept. Good knowledge of Terraform is required
• Proficient experience in CI / CD configuration (Jenkins is preferred)
• Understanding of Unit / Integration testing. Be ready to integrate automated quality in the usual development flow
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Understanding security basics (cryptography algorithms, authentication & authorization protocols, application security)
• Written English (read & write)
• Robust communication and instructional capabilities
• Superior planning and project management skills
• Excellent leadership skills, ability to inspire a team and build collaboration across departments

Will definitely be a plus:

• Hashi Corp products experience such as Vault / Packer / Terraform CDK
• Dealing with security vulnerabilities in common operating systems, web, and applications, including knowledge of remediation procedures
• Practical experience with tools / services for Security in Cloud
• Understanding of the OWASP top 10
• Experience in writing technical documentation and planning
• Understanding fundamental principles of the Scrum / Kanban process

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to deal with top-notch technologies and approaches in a world-leader product company with millions of customers
• Opportunity to make a difference for online privacy, freedom of speech, and net neutrality
• Decent market rate compensation depending on experience and skills
• Developed corporate culture: no micromanagement, culture based on principles of truth, trust, and transparency
• “You build it, you own it” mentality in most contexts
• Support of personal and professional development
  • coverage of costs of external trainings, conferences, professional literature
  • support of experienced colleagues
  • in-house events and trainings
  • regular knowledge sharing in teams
  • English classes and speaking clubs
• Life-balance support
  • truly flexible schedule, no time-tracking at all
  • 25 working days of vacation
  • 5 days of paid sick leave per month (if necessary) without providing a medical certificate
  • generous maternity leave program
• Professionally strong environment, friendly and open atmosphere, ability to influence the product development and recognition for it

You will be involved into:

• Strategic leadership of Dev Ops direction: developing and implementing Dev Ops strategy aimed at scaling infrastructure and improving CI / CD efficiency
• Team management: building, training, and developing Dev Ops team, implementing best practices and methodologies aimed at employee productivity and motivation
• Process optimization: analyzing current infrastructure deployment, monitoring, and management processes to improve the speed and reliability of software delivery
• Infrastructure management: ensuring the stability, performance, and security of the infrastructure and its readiness for increased workloads
• Collaborate with other departments: You will be working closely with our Architect, SRE, DBA, and Product development teams to align and implement new solutions
• Automation: implement and optimize automated processes to improve application deployment, testing, and monitoring

About the company and project:

Namecheap was founded in 2000 on the idea that all people deserve value-priced domains delivered through stellar service. Today Namecheap is a leading ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and web hosting company with over 13 million customers and 17 million domains under management — and we’re just getting started.
Our culture is built on the values that we live every day: the way we work, the way we collaborate with our global network of colleagues and the way we relentlessly innovate solutions that meet the emerging needs of our customers.
The aim of the Dev Ops Team is to create infrastructure and processes that support fast, reliable, and secure software deployment, accelerating the implementation of changes and reducing risks to system stability and security. As a Head of our Dev Ops Team, you will be solving challenging problems and helping us to keep our product team’s toolsets at the state-of-the-art level, ensuring that we use the best techniques available and push the limits possible if needed.
You will be involved in all stages of Dev Ops processes: from developing strategies to detailed development of tools and methods together with the team.
Join our Dev Ops Team and be a driving force in developing solutions that will take our product to a new level!