Senior DevOps Engineer

At SiteMinder we believe the individual contributions of our employees are what drive our success. That’s why we hire and encourage diverse teams that include and respect a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their unique selves to work and be proud of doing so. It’s in our differences that we will keep revolutionising the way for our customers. We are better together!

What We Do…

We’re people who love technology but know that hoteliers just want things to be simple. So since 2006 we’ve been constantly innovating our world-leading hotel commerce platform to help accommodation owners find and book more guests online - quickly and simply.

We’ve helped everyone from boutique hotels to big chains, enabling travellers to book igloos, cabins, castles, holiday parks, campsites, pubs, resorts, Airbnbs, and everything in between.

And today, we’re the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, supporting 50,000 hotels in 150+ countries - with over 130 million reservations processed by SiteMinder’s technology every year.

About the Senior DevOps Engineer role…

As a Data Platform Engineer, we expect experience as an Infrastructure Platform engineer, which includes hands-on experience supporting Big Data systems. Your focus areas will be on building and optimising our data systems, pipelines, streams and lakes.

As a member of the Infrastructure Platform team, you will be a subject matter expert on AWS Cloud infrastructure, administering Kubernetes and utilising Terraform. You will work closely with data scientists and engineers to ensure our data platform meets the evolving needs of the business.

What you’ll do…

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure using Terraform.

• Assist building and optimising data lakes and warehouses for efficient streaming, storage and retrieval of large datasets.

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the infrastructure platform for performance and cost.

• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to understand their data requirements and provide efficient solutions.

• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to improve our infrastructure platform.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for all platform components.

• Act as an escalation point and subject matter expert for BAU support issues related to the infrastructure platform.

• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation to support critical production infrastructure

What you have…

• Extensive professional experience in an infrastructure platform engineering role .eg SRE, DevOps. Good experience working with data engineering, data platform teams.

• Hands-on experience on Terraform. Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, GoLang).

• Demonstrated deep experience with Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their data services. Strong Linux Administration skills and security hardening experience.

• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and technologies (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery).

• Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration service and underlying technologies .eg Ingress, Network Policies, FluentBit

• Experience with big data and streaming technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) is highly desirable.

• Understanding of MLOps and LLMOps principles.

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills. Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed collaborative team.

Our Perks & Benefits…

• Mental health and well-being initiatives
• Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy
• Flexibility to work in a Hybrid model (2-3 days in-office)
• Paid birthday, study and volunteering leave every year
• Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations
• Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to help you connect and get involved
• Investment in your personal growth offering training for your advancement

Does this job sound like you? If yes, we'd love for you to be part of our team! Please send a copy of your resume and our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.

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