Posted about 4 years ago
Part of Something Bigger!
The Internet is for anyone who wants to share their ideas with the world. At Namecheap, we're excited to help our customers realize their dreams. That's why we're here.
Our teams constantly work to transform the latest tech breakthroughs into usable products that will shape the future of not just Namecheap, but the entire industry.
Inside the Cloud Team, you and your teammates will pave the way in infrastructure, research, and frontend development, creating platforms that meet the needs of our customers and our company.
We describe ourselves as a team of technical experts, made stronger by diverse perspectives. We pride ourselves on our flat, open working style, and use every chance we can to inject humor into the daily hustle.
Cloud Engineer, you will contribute to building and maintain our next generation cloud product fleet. You will join a heterogeneous team focused on making technology accessible by delivering robust, customer-friendly cloud products.
Location: Remote - Europe.
Your Accountabilities
Ideate, plan and create a wide variety of cloud services
Help to build our container application cloud on top of our own bare metal
Research, learn and share some of the latest trends and technologies in the cloud industry
Configure and integrate cloud software
Interact daily with application developers to help support products on top of our own cloud
Improve the performance of our cloud services and solve scaling issues
Perform deep technical investigations and troubleshooting
Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting and reporting for our cloud services
Document processes and software
Share technical knowledge with the team members
Be committed to best practices
Give your opinions on operational processes, DevOps, deployment checklists, and more
Required Qualifications
Previous experience with large-scale, high-availability, asynchronous, distributed systems
3+ years experience with shell scripting
Strong Linux/Unix experience and deep understanding of how systems work
Strong experience with at least one of the following automation tools: Ansible (would be great), Puppet, Salt
Docker and Kubernetes experience very important. RKT, LXC a plus.
Experience of software-defined storage (Ceph, Gluster, persistent container storage and more)
Experience of physical and software-defined networking a plus, especially a container based networking
CI/CD
Private cloud/building on own bare metal, including VMware and OpenStack
Strong troubleshooting skills
Solid understanding of how to secure cloud services and data
Excellent communications skills
Have a strong will for self-development
Strong focus on self-education and self-motivation, team player with a keen desire to help others
It's great, but not essential, if you have
Previous experience with a programming language: Go (golang), Python preferred
Previous experience in hacking Linux kernel
Previous experience in the hosting/cloud industry
Experience with a public cloud provider like AWS or Gcloud
Experience with hosting operating systems like CoreOS, Atomic or similar
Experience with containers and their orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
Contributing to open source projects that power cloud services
Education and Work Experience
3+ years of experience with cloud/hosted services
Intermediate or higher level of written English
Our work culture and benefits
You’ll receive a competitive salary
Whether you work remotely from the comfort of your home, or in an office, you’ll interact with international colleagues from multiple disciplines, and with great sense of humor on a daily basis! We use multiple communication tools, have a few regular meetings a week (and sometimes more frequent). We also build in time for focused work (just let us know you’re in Do Not Disturb mode)
We work in an iterative way, fueled by testing and learning quickly from users, colleagues, and stakeholders. You’ll grow a lot in this evolving environment
We strive to design beautiful and delightful interactions but not at the expense of function, performance and accessibility. You’ll be challenged to achieve the best results for our users, and grow the metrics of our business
You’ll be able to manage your own time and energy to always work in a calm and healthy way and take the necessary time off to recharge