What's the role?

Overview:

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.

As a lead DevOps engineer, you will drive continuous service reliability improvement across HERE engineering community. In addition, you will:

• Identify areas for optimization and automation, focused on service reliability, stability, and throughput, implementing good DevOps practices and tools.
• Work closely with development and operations teams, requiring excellent communication and collaboration skills, being able to bridge the gap between different teams and align them towards common goals, provide technical leadership and guidance on DevOps reliability practices and principles.
• Interact with different sets of stakeholders, like product managers/owners, developers, and system engineers, the ability to understand their needs and manage expectations is essential.
• Leads discussions to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex technological infrastructure, security, or development problem
• Sets best practices for incremental testing actions on code using a test driven approach where possible (TDD)
• Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for different areas within team
• Drives and demonstrates group code review
• Leads triage efforts when escalation occurs within team

Who are you?

Experience

You are a go-getter, with an eye for detail, strong problem-solving, a bachelor’s degree in a technical field, and have the following:

• 8 to 12 years of experience in relevant software or internet service industry with a service
• At least 5 years as a SRE / DevOps / Senior Systems Engineer with experience
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) - vpc, ec2, emr, lambda, cloudwatch , cloudtrail, VPC endpoint, RDS , s3, route53, SNS, ECS, EKS
• Experience with or knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies
• Operations background supporting high availability environments.
• Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
• Experience with Java and/or Python and Go languages for script development and automations
• Deep understanding of the GNU/Linux operating system
• TCP/IP, Ethernet networks, physical and logical network design, implementation and operation
• Understanding of filesystem operation (e.g. ext3, xfs) and LVM
• Knowledge of best practices in a micro-service architecture in an always-up, always-available service
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Process-oriented with great documentation skills

• Knoweldge of Seucrity best-practices in a containerized or cloud-based Architecture

• Familiarity with event drive Architecture and related concepts

HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Who are we?

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.