Are you an experienced engineer, and would you like a challenging position as a DevOps software engineer offering you a part in shaping the future of publishing and media business?

Company Information

Escenic Asia Limited is a top quality software development and IT service company in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Escenic Asia Limited is a subsidiary company of Escenic A/S owned by CCI Europe A/S based in Aarhus. We are a market-leading software development and IT service company. We develop online publishing platforms and digital experience platforms for media and brand publishers worldwide. Among our customers are The New York Times, Times of India, Axel Springer in Germany, and JP/Politikens Hus in Denmark. Our CUE publishing platform is a high-performance content management and delivery system for online, mobile, and print publishing and a powerful toolset for building modular websites for all platforms. We offer our customers on-premise as well as cloud-based SaaS solutions built on Amazon Cloud where we host and care for our customers 24/7.

DevOps Software Engineer in the Cloud

Job Description

We are looking for a DevOps Software Engineer who enjoys taking part in the building, maintaining and monitoring of a cloud based, business critical service environment on AWS. You will be working with a highly skilled team of cloud engineers and developers with a clear focus on automation and monitoring. As a DevOps Engineer in you will be in frequent contact with our customers and responsible for the state of their service environment.

You will join a globally distributed team with 8 people who are working with cutting edge technologies, continuous integration, continuous delivery, configuration management, capacity monitoring and build pipelines. We expect you to understand and work towards mastering all of these. As we are always looking for people who can help us raise the bar and improve our services, you should also have a strong interest in optimization of configuration management, machine learning for monitoring, and new container solutions.

Profile

You are a team player with a high level of professionalism and responsibility. You are self-driven and approach tasks proactively and with a positive outlook. You are able to take on the role of gatekeeper to ensure stability of our pipelines and environments. Dedication, sense of urgency, and the ability to stay calm under pressure are natural traits of your personality.

Educational Requirement

  • B.Sc or M.Sc in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Qualification requirements

  • 4+ years of experience as an Operations Engineer and/or Developer
  • Strong skills in (Bash/Python/Perl) scripting
  • Self-motivated and proactive problem solver
  • Willing to learn and adopt new technical skills
  • Loves to automate repetitive tasks
  • Must be a team player in a globally distributed team
  • Must be very familiar with Unix/Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu, CentOs etc.)
  • Solid experience with aws cli
  • Good understanding and Hands on Amazon Web Services like EC2, Route53, RDS, S3, VPC, CDN (AWS CloudFront/ Akamai/ Others)
  • Solid Experience in maintaining large complex JEE application
  • Solid experience with MySQL, Tomcat, Apache, Nginx, Varnish, Memcached (Installation and Troubleshooting)
  • Solid Experience with Infrastructure and Application monitoring toolslike Munin, Icinga
  • Solid experience with frequent deployments and troubleshootings
  • Experience with application security, preferably exposed to IT/network security
  • Solid knowledge in managing microservices
  • Solid knowledge in virtualization like KVM, Virtualbox, VMware
  • Solid knowledge in container-based virtualization like Docker
  • Excellent communication skills in English, both oral and written

Additional Requirements

  • Experience with Content Management Systems
  • Good understanding of HTTP, HTTPs, REST basics
  • Good understanding of Java related tools like maven, ant
  • Experience with Nodejs will be a plus
  • Experience with version control system like git
  • Good understanding of SSL/TLS, GnuPG/GPG
  • ITIL Service Operations and ITIL Service Transition
  • Experience with system and IT operations
  • Experience with deployment management tools like Ansible, Chef, puppet
  • Experience with website hosting will be plus

Company benefits

  • A challenging job in an international company
  • An opportunity to work with leading products and high-profile customers
  • Competitive salary and excellent employment conditions
  • Friendly and youthful working environment with highly skilled colleagues
  • Benefit from using the most modern software development technologies and methodologies
  • Possibility to visit CCI & Escenic’s headquarters in Denmark and Norway
  • Annual bonus
  • Office transportation/allowance
  • Medical insurance
  • Contributory Provident Fund
  • Annual vacation of 20 days
  • Breakfast and Lunch at office
  • Other benefits as per company policy

Instructions to apply

If you are interested, please send your CV with a cover letter to careers@escenic.com before August 10, 2019. You are encouraged to apply at your earliest convenience. In the mail/cover letter please mention why you think you are the right person for this position. Please mention “your_name applied for DevOps Software Engineer in the Cloud” in the subject of your mail. Only short listed candidates will be invited for interview.