Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

Requirements

Hi! Thanks for checking us out!

Who we are: 

Riverside is your online studio for high-quality recordings and incredibly smart and fast editing. It's powered by AI, but built for human conversations - anything from podcasts to video marketing is captured with 4K video quality and crystal-clear audio, no matter where you’re located.

By removing all barriers between idea and expression, we empower anyone to create stories and conversations that engage their audience and inspire the world with conversations and stories.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a motivated individual who is passionate about building infrastructure and DevOps methodologies to empower the company to scale effectively.

You will join a small team and work in a high-velocity startup with a fun environment where products and ecosystems are still being defined and developed, giving you the chance to influence some of the core tools used and be a part of every stage of development from concept to deployment. You will need to be a self-starter, ready to dig in and own projects, collaborate cross-functionally, and deliver quality results.

What will your day to day look like:

Scaling our media processing and web services infrastructure to support extreme loads of data and traffic - We have 1000s pods and 100s nodes on EKS

• Own deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, and uptime of all of our production AWS cloud environments.
• Infrastructure for video processing, continuous ML training and real-time prediction.
• Building, updating, and implementing CI/CD pipeline and DevOps automation processes, methodologies, and tools.
• Work closely with Engineering and Data teams, taking full responsibility and ownership from conception to post-deployment in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
• Stay on top of modern technologies with our infra stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Redis, MySQL

Your areas of expertise most relevant to this role:

At Least 6 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer role preferably at a startup company

• Strong technical skills, good system and infrastructure design knowledge
• Proficient in working with Kubernetes stack: Docker, K8S, Helm, ArgoCD, Ingress, Service mesh etc
• Proficient in working with CI/CD tools: Jenkins/GH Actions/Gitlab CI
• Proven experience writing and maintaining infrastructure as code (AWS CDK, Terraform, Crossplane - advantage)
• Experienced with monitoring and central logging technologies (Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix – advantage)
• Familiar with how modern web applications work and scale
• Networking, firewall rules management and application security knowledge
• Familiar with Linux environment, scripting and programming
• Ability to see the bigger picture and carry out system architecture planning
• Experienced with optimization of resources – advantage
• Experienced with SOC2 compliance – advantage
• Knowledge in any programming language (Python, Nodejs, Ruby) - advantage
• Independence, ownership, and a sense of urgency. A “Self-starter” with a startup mentality

Why choose us?

You'll have a front-row seat at an early-stage, fast-growing company. 

• We're still small, so there are not too many layers of bureaucracy to work through. You can have a huge impact here.
• Talented partners and plenty of space to learn and teach
• Competitive Salary and benefits and so much more!