Engineering Team Lead DevOps

Company Description

VIVANT is the virtual Wine Experience platform dedicated to organic wine. We all know wines made without herbicides and pesticides taste better, are better for us, and are better for our planet. Our mission is to accelerate the wine industry’s move to a more sustainable future. Now you can travel to the world’s greatest wine regions and taste the world’s greatest organic wines, anywhere, anytime at www.vivant.eco.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior DevOps manager with deep knowledge of agile software engineering workflows, processes, tool chains, and technologies to join our global team. Your mission will be to manage DevOps and system administration team, delegate jobs, make recommendations to improve and implement a state of the art DevOps infrastructure for our growing software product management, media production, design, engineering and quality assurance teams. In addition you will support our shared productivity tool administration across the company with the same keen sense of efficiency, security and improved workflows. If you have a passion for DevOps technologies and automation and love supporting teams to be the best they can be, then you might be our next VIVANT!

Responsibilities

• Architect a video streaming solution to handle video broadcasting and video conferencing sessions for up to 100 and 10 participants respectively,  optimizing for near real-time delivery in target geographies (latency < 500ms)
• Set up the infrastructure to support parallel sessions (up to 5 at a time)
• Provide a solution for session recording and playback
• Collaborate with application engineers to integrate the video streaming solution into web and iOS applications
• Develop techniques to improve streaming reliability and quality on all platforms, including mobile
• Own video performance, management, and delivery

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems or significant professional experience working as a DevOps engineer
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in automated in DevOps environments
• 2+ years of managing team
• Experience using and configuring DevOps tools and CI/CD Build and Release Processes
• In-depth knowledge of AWS and Linux based servers
• Capable of quickly learning new technologies and procedures
• Technical, logical, problem-solving and excellent communication skills
• An ability to stick to required response times
• A keen eye for detail
• Ability to strike a balance between proactivity with prevention in mind and agility in navigating and/or coordinating unpredictable scenarios fast

Additional information

Our Culture

VIVANTs come from different backgrounds and experiences. Our shared values unite us.

• Curious. The hunger to understand leads to our passions. We are always learning new things.
• Bold. We never shy away from our responsibility to question the status quo and impact change.
• Agile. Moving fast to enables us to turn challenges into opportunities in a constantly changing world.
• Trustworthy. We trust and keep each other accountable in all our interactions and endeavors.
• Open-minded. We accept and strive to integrate diverse opinions and perspectives to achieve the best outcomes.