DevOps Engineer

AVIRA Soft SRL

25-06-2015 | EXPIRA LA 25-07-2015

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RESPONSABILITATI

As a member of the Distributed Protection Systems and Research Team you will be responsible for deploying, growing and maintaining large distributed systems. You constantly interact with an international team of open minded engineers located in Romania, Germany and The Netherlands to find the very best solutions for our systems. You will be responsible for infrastructure design, deployment and operation of a variety of systems and coordinate such projects with internal IT and external vendors.


CERINTE

Your ability to think out of the box and your strong will to pursue the right solution through extensive research inspires others and invigorates projects. Your independent solution finding skills are complemented by your ability to learn from others and your open-mindedness. With pride in your work and a sense of urgency to deliver the best possible solution, you persist to see your work completed in a product.
You have a degree in computer science, strong system administration skills (especially Linux), programming experience in the field of automation and the ability to learn new languages within a short timeframe. Ideally you have prior experience with cloud computing (IaaS or PaaS), Python and configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible or Chef.
You are familiar with system analysis, system design, system architecture, data flow/throughput analysis, data security and capacity planning. You also have a deep understanding of all system layers including virtualization and networking. You know how to find performance bottlenecks, security holes and failure points in any layer of the architecture and implement fixes.

Starting from day one you will familiarize yourself with the recently released Avira Protection Cloud, which protects millions of customers from malicious files. Within one month you understand the software- and hardware architecture of the system, so that you can start deploying and operating the system
Within the first three months you will familiarize yourself with a system that uses a GPU compute cluster to solve complex problems. You will plan for growth and redundancy and coordinate that growth with several IT teams within Avira
In addition, within the first six months you will launch version one of Avira’s cloud based URL protection service. The system will scale transparently for a very large user base, be cost effective and provide high performance, low maintenance and redundancy.
The goal is to automatically deploy that service in a cloud computing environment
A year into the job you have connected Avira’s protection cloud services to provide market-leading online security to our millions of customers and stay ahead of competition by operating existing and deploying future products


BENEFICII OFERITE

If you are enthusiastic about broadening your technical expertise and have a desire to work in an environment that promotes creativity, research, innovation and fun, we look forward to hear from you!


DESCRIEREA FIRMEI

Located in Bucharest - Romania, Avira was founded in 2004 by a dynamic core of security experts who is committed to the following values: security ethics, professional attitude, open spirit, pride and respect. These principles are meant to stand at the base of any long term
collaboration and partnership that Avira Soft will undertake.
Avira Soft gathered a team of more than 50 dynamic professionals who are permanently collaborating with the experimented specialists of Avira GmbH , Germany. We are a dynamic and creative team and our purpose is to produce high quality software.

We also impose some requirements for our candidates: creativity, technical knowledge, team working capabilities and the ability to finish the job on time.