DevOps Engineer

Let’s face it - developing and delivering quality software is not the only thing ensuring overall success! Agility and speed of delivering new features to clients can be decisive factors in winning the market! Building software development lifecycles and helping nurture a continuous deployment and improvement culture is often challenging but extremely empowering. And this is what we aim for.

If you resonate with the way we operate, join us. Together, we will ensure that delivering and deploying new features in our software releases is possible in days instead of weeks or months.

A little bit about us 

Microblink is an AI company with expertise in computer vision. We create unique products and tools in digital identity with the desire to bring the benefits of AI to every person on Earth. Our teams in Zagreb. Sofia & New York touch hundreds of millions of people every year - with over 700M identity documents processed in more than 70 countries around the world.

What will be your responsibilities:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will concentrate on cloud infrastructure, ensuring service reliability, and enhancing observability. Your key responsibilities include fostering a DevOps culture, leading the architectural vision for scalable infrastructure, and collaborating with departments to align DevOps with company objectives. Your role also involves optimizing processes, enhancing incident management, and strategically managing vendors for governance and compliance.

Throughout the initial three months of your onboarding process, you will:

• Help prioritize improvements around workflows and processes on the existing infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, you'll establish relationships and gain insights into their specific needs and pain points 
• Lead and deliver one of the smaller initiatives we have in our yearly plan
• Evaluate emerging technologies that could enhance the current DevOps ecosystem and align them with the company's strategic goals

After completing the three-month onboarding period, you will:

• Develop, deploy, and operate Microblink’s cloud-native infrastructure
• Develop and improve instrumentation for understanding and troubleshooting the health and availability of services
• Bring a mindset of standards and best practices to help create observability solutions that the team wants to adopt
• Participate in technical discussions to aid system design, analysis, and troubleshooting
• Help engineering teams to develop, test, debug, and release scalable, resilient,t and highly available cloud-native applications
• Participate in on-call duties and rotations

You'll be successful in this role if you have

• Strong experience with design, architecture, and maintenance of highly available infrastructure
• Designed and implemented continuous integration and deployment for distributed HA software services
• Experience in working with GCP as well as bare metal systems involving Kubernetes deployments
• Proven experience in operating and maintaining persistent data store software, including on-prem blob storage and various database software (PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• At least a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

A plus is if you also have

• Some experience in working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional and/or cross-business projects
• Experience in incident management processes
• Availability to work in the U.S. time zone

Here’s what you’ll gain if you join us

• Microblink owes its success to its people. That is why we offer equity participation to all of our full-time employees so that we can grow together
• Unlimited PTO, giving you the flexibility to take time off as needed to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Location-specific "Pick & Choose" benefits tailored to meet diverse personal preferences and regional needs.
• Flexible work arrangements, allowing you to adjust your schedule—whether working remotely or at our Zagreb office.
• Opportunities to learn and develop your skills through internal L&D programs, and a supportive working environment.

Microblink LLC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, from hiring to the end of your business relationship with us. Accordingly, this job advertisement is equally applicable to all people and Microblink will make a hiring decision based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We prohibit discrimination of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws, as well as our internal policies and culture.

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