Operational Lead

Azets Software is a Technology company that is part of the Azets Group, a multinational corporation with offices across 8 countries. Azets aims to provide an end-to-end experience for small to medium companies across the UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The customer platform delivers a modern digital customer experience to its 170k+ enterprise users across 30k+ companies, with the expectation of doubling its user base over the next 3 years.
Azets is investing both in the existing applications that compose the customer platform as well as developing whole new product areas. For example, we will build a new communication platform for chat and video calls between customers and consultants and a marketplace for buying services and products.
We are currently looking for a “Head of Operations” role who will be reporting directly to the “Head of Technology” in the organization. You will lead how our developers use AWS and be responsible for the operational excellence of our technology platform, Cozone. You will be part of a bigger team that mainly works with AWS and is responsible for similar applications.
We expect you to work on two levels: first managing AWS services and orchestrating the current services being used for our offerings, and the second level would be to maintain our Cozone platform so that it is running efficiently and is highly available. You will be responsible for service windows, cost optimization, migrations and optimization of the platform. We expect that you will be working tightly with the development team.
At Azets Software you will get the opportunity to build distributed high-loaded security solutions. You will Support and build critical infrastructure while assisting the team with proof of concept research. You will be working with software developers and product owners to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended.
Technical requirements
Experience with networking: IP stack, routing, DNS
3+ years working experience as a Linux/Unix system administrator
3+ years of experience with AWS
Showing the basics of Cloud-related microservice architecture (AWS): EC2, networking, IAM, EKS, CloudWatch, S3, SQS, SNS, ECR
Having the fundamentals and practice with containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
A holder of 'Work smart, not hard' approach and 'Automate everything' lifestyle: Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash
DB administration experience as an advantage: MySQL, InfluxDB, Redis, ElasticSearch
Good at infrastructure and applications monitoring: principles, approaches, and systems like Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana
Possessing deep troubleshooting skills
Proficient in at least one CI/CD tools
Understanding of microservices architecture
Understanding of container virtualization
Experience in event driven architectures

You should be an expert in
Agile mindset and solution driven way of thinking
Self-organized working and learning
Passion for knowledge sharing with other team members regarding good practices, code quality and tech frameworks
Background in software engineering for web with a focus on API-based development (REST, gRPC)

What Azets Software offers:
Collaborative work with talented and driven colleagues
Freedom to focus on and drive your own vision
Trust-based leadership
Freedom to balance in-office and remote work
International but close-knit team

We look forward to receiving your application. Selection takes place on an ongoing basis and the appointment of the position can be settled before the application deadline. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the recruiting manager Shahzeb Iqbal at shahzeb.iqbal@azets.com