DevOps Engineer - AWS/Kubernetes

Job Description

Are you someone that is driven by a great challenge? That has a love for working with state-of-the-art technologies? Do you have an urge to learn and develop yourself in a culture of DevOps best practices whilst learning with the most innovative DevOps minds and experts? If you’re nodding your head, trust me, you should continue reading.

What you get to do every day:

• You will be working with a bunch of super smart and super friendly engineers. Because of major growth plans we’re now looking to double the size of our team in 2019... We want you to be the next star in Zendesk!
• Our engineers look after over 5,500 servers with more being added every day! One of our biggest projects we’re working on right now is to migrate a large part of our architecture to Kubernetes and AWS - of which you will play a major part!
• In Zendesk we operate in an embedded DevOps model. We have a number of product teams and we embed a DevOps engineer in all of them. At the moment we need to find a talented DevOps Engineer to help our Infrastructure and Explore teams in Dublin or Montpellier to continue to build and automate highly scalable infrastructure!

What you bring to the role

• Someone familiar with AWS services.
• Someone familiar with Relational databases.
• Someone who worked on Debian and/or CoreOS distributions.
• Someone who can explain the advantages of Vault, Consul and a good CI/CD.
• Someone familiar with Linux Containers (Docker preferably).Someone who can create an automation script in Python, Ruby or any other languages - we are open minded.
• Someone who knows the basics of HTTP routing.
• Someone for whom monitoring is not an option.

Nice to have:

• Nice to have:A knowledge of Kubernetes
• A knowledge of SparkA knowledge of Redis and general K/V datastores

The best customer experiences are built with Zendesk. Zendesk’s powerful and flexible customer service and engagement platform scales to meet the needs of any business, from startups and small businesses to growth companies and enterprises. Zendesk serves businesses across a multitude of industries, with more than 125,000 paid customer accounts offering service and support in more than 30 languages. Headquartered in San Francisco, Zendesk operates worldwide with 15 offices in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. Learn more at www.zendesk.com . Interested in knowing what we do in the community? Check out the Zendesk Neighbor Foundation to learn more about how we engage with, and provide support to, our local communities. Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. By submitting your application, you agree that Zendesk may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Zendesk's Candidate Privacy Notice explains what personal information Zendesk may process, where Zendesk may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Zendesk’s use of your personal information. Apply for this job