Golang Job: DevOps

Recently named 'Adweek Creator Agency of the Year, Whalar is a global, award-winning creator commerce company that works closely with today's biggest brands, content creators, and world-leading social platforms to deliver innovative and creative content. We differentiate ourselves by our unique capabilities, including proprietary technology, brand partnership expertise, brilliant creator talent management, and dedicated Web3 innovation practice.
We believe this is a rare chance to join a truly special team and to help us shape the future of a highly respected, growth-oriented business that is committed to doing well by doing good.
Location
This role is tied to our Malaga Office but can be remote and sit anywhere in Spain. We are also open to candidates who are EU citizens and want to relocate to Spain.
Your activities/duties

• Working with the team on the management of our cloud deployments
• Working with the team in monitoring of our systems and deployments, bringing automation and alert management into the picture.
• Collaborate in CI/CD pipelines with other DevOps, Develop and QA teams
• Support our teams:

– Analyze cluster performance (metrics, Databases, etc…)
– Dashboard deployments
– Miscellaneous automations
– Training and knowledge transfer to the Operations team
Experience / Must have

• Quick learner, self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
• Good communicator, good documentation skills, team player.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in Linux OS Administration
• Experience with Bash scripting language
• Understanding on Continuous Integration and Delivery
• Advanced experience with container technologies like Docker
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience with monitoring tools and alerts (Prometheus, Grafana, alertmanager, etc…)
• Experience with container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Experience with backups and restoring lifecycles
• Good understanding of security best practices (VPN, security groups, WAF, etc …)

Nice to have

• Knowledge of best practices for the full SW development lifecycle, including agile, coding standards, source control management, build processes, testing, release management and operations
• Configuration Management (Ansible/Puppet)
• Package management (Helm)
• Awareness of security certification procedures
• Knowledge of code in Golang and/or Python
• Application Monitoring with Datadog

Our values:
Our people are our superpower. At Whalar, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are at the core of who we are. We are deeply committed to reflecting on the unique journeys, authentic voices, and perspectives of our people, our creators, and the communities they represent. Our hope is to impact accessibility beyond compliance and help break societal stigmas and stereotypes. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for everything creator, we want to meet you, and we encourage you to apply.
The perks:
Whalar is a remote-first working environment, providing our employees with the flexibility to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves. Whalar is located across 18 states in the US and 6 countries including offices in London and Malaga, Spain. Whalar provides flexible benefits and collaborative work environments/experiences, empowering employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs.

• Easy to access office in the center of Málaga
• Remote working allowed - occasional office meet-ups
• Some flexibility in working hours
• Personal development budget/year for courses and skill development 900€/year
• Laptop/desktop computer/dev equipment provided during the employment period
• Home Office Setup, 250€ allowance for improvements to your home office environment
• MAPFRE private health insurance after a 3-month trial period
• one-on-ones every 2 weeks with your manager to ensure and keep tracking your performance and needs
• Spanish full-time contract with a 3-month trial period
• 25 days of PTO + Sick days + Winter break

Whalar_ provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Equal opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring, promotions, training, working conditions, compensation, and benefits._

Job Type: Full-time