HIRING: GlobaLeaks is seeking for a DevOps Engineer!

[evilaliv3]

Profile: DevOps Engineer

Commitment: Full-time

Location: Remote

Closing date: Extended to May 30, 2024 – 23.59 CEST

Summary: GlobaLeaks is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with experience in sysadmin and software development.

Your primary focus will be on the design, development and maintenance of the software provisioning infrastructure and on the supervision of the worldwide community taking active part in this process.

You may expect to split your time on both infrastructure automation (50%) and development (50%) in the first year and then pass on to work on the same duties with a ratio 30% and 70% respectively.

Apply to join a young and growing team developing technology for protecting human rights!

Salary: 50k-65K EUR/year gross salary depending on experience

How to apply: Send a short cover letter, your GitHub username, and your resume with links to some samples of your work to [email protected] by May 30th, 2024, 23.59 CEST. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Job Description

As a DevOps, you will help us continue to develop GlobaLeaks to make it more secure and usable for whistleblowers, public and private organizations, no-profit associations and journalists.

What you will do

• Collaborate with CTO/Lead Developer on the planning, development and maintenance of the GlobaLeaks infrastructure
• Take part in the research and development of the software in collaboration with the GlobaLeaks supervising community and in adherence to the large set of user requirements and feature requests
• Improve the CI/CD infrastructure used to develop and provisioning the software
• Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues
• Take part in the development and maintenance of the end-user documentation of the software
• Support research projects based on GlobaLeaks testing features and collecting user feedback
• Take part in active community support and user trainings

Job requirements
IT skills

• Strong Python, Bash, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS skills
• Proven experience on development and maintenance of full-stack software
• Proven experience on maintaining reliable, secure and performant infrastructures
• Ability to support development, testing and code review for backend components
• Knowledge of technologies such as Debian/Linux, Proxmox, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, OPNSense, OpenVPN
• Experience working with Git/Github
• Knowledge of and experience with software development life-cycle process
• Knowledge of system and cluster monitoring software
• General knowledge of Internet technologies and security tools
• Excellent knowledge of networking
• 5+ years professional experience in similar roles, ideally some of that experience is in software development or systems administration

Organizational and communications skills

• Comfortable working with a fully remote team
• Super organized with excellent attention to details
• Openness to possibly travel for work events and meetings on occasion
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate with many different audiences
• Fluent in English, good working knowledge of Italian is a plus.

Bonus points

• Passion for building free software for public good
• Experience with Free and Open Source Software culture
• Experience working on civic tech, human rights, internet freedom, social justice, or activism
• Well versed in security and with a good understanding of security best practices from an application development standpoint
• Knowledge or experience in back-end software development and software packaging
• Ability to keep up in an extremely fast-paced environment
• Experience with multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary projects
• Fluent in other languages different from English and Italian
• Graduate degrees and certifications in relevant fields are a plus

Thanks to GlobaLeaks everybody can easily setup a secure and anonymous whistleblowing initiative.

You could read more information here: https://globaleaks.org/get-involved/work-with-us/

[evilaliv3]

Thank you @ricardomiron ; actually the position is still open on rolling basis since we have still not found a good fit :/

If you like please keep this open.