Operations Engineer at Coates Group (Guangzhou, China)Operations Engineer

Purpose: The Operations Engineer has expertise and experience in Operations or DevOps, and is responsible for either being assigned to a development squad for application infrastructure help/assistance or more broadly working on organisational infrastructure within the centralised Ops Team from a Deployment and Monitoring perspective

Accountabilities: Working alongside a DevOps culture ​ Familiarity with DevOps principles - automation, CI/CD pipelines, collaboration, etc ​ Research, analyse and find best practice solutions that align to the program needs ​ Ability to work towards helping provide advice to clients and work alongside junior team members to help design improvements to the platform ​ Managing and maintaining 100+ AWS instances across 50+ VPCs globally ​ Managing a global fleet of tens of thousands of Linux powered IoT devices​ Following system monitoring and responding to alerts to ensure system uptime​ Identifying, investigating and analysing current business processes, procedures and work practices looking at new ways to incorporate into our products​ Work with the team to proactively champion identifying & implementing new initiatives & solutions that enhance our cloud infrastructure​ Comfortable with deployments to a wide range of devices in dev/uat and Prod environments

Qualifications and Experience​ : Highly knowledgeable of AWS​ Solid grasp of advanced containerization concepts including Docker​ Creating training and user documentation and conducting formal training for more junior team members​ Working with a hybrid software stack of microservices and serverless functions ​ Strong capabilities in bash and python scripting ​ Strong Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu) ​ Automation and templating driven attitude with a good understanding of IaC (such as CloudFormation)​