Senior DevOps Engineer

About Us

At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 250 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data.

For more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.

About The Job

Are you passionate about building automation that empowers developers and drives business value? As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in creating solutions that streamline development, deployment, and maintenance processes, making it easier for our teams to overcome challenges and deliver impactful results.

Joining our Infrastructure Team, you'll work with technologies like Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Prometheus, and Grafana, scaling and enhancing our robust tech stack. You'll be responsible for maintaining the infrastructure that powers our products—spanning from cloud-hosted clusters to on-premises bare metal servers. With clusters exceeding 600 worker nodes, your expertise in automation and tooling will be critical for efficient management.

Open Source is at the heart of our DNA, and we integrate it deeply into our workflows. We embrace innovation and value collaborative problem-solving, making our workplace an environment where your ideas can thrive.

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines, and managing large-scale infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Passion for Open Source and collaborative development.
• Ability to handle challenges in dynamic environments with a problem-solving mindset.

If you're ready to shape the future of DevOps and infrastructure at scale, join us in redefining what's possible

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters, both in managed cloud environments (e.g., GKE) and self-hosted on-premises setups.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform and Helm Charts for efficient and consistent deployments.
• Automate provisioning, de-provisioning, and deployment processes using Python and establish robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement and enhance observability with tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana to ensure optimal system monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to optimize infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and scalability across all layers of the infrastructure.

Requirements:

• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes in both cloud-managed and self-managed (on-prem) environments.
• Proficiency in IaC tools such as Terraform and expertise in managing Kubernetes application deployments with Helm Charts.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, with a focus on automation for infrastructure and deployment workflows.
• Deep understanding of observability and monitoring tools, including but not limited to Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch.
• Demonstrated experience with public cloud providers, especially GCP and/or OCI.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and best practices for modern software delivery.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a detail-oriented mindset.

Benefits:

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team.
• Have the freedom & flexibility to work remotely.
• Get the chance to work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools.
• Allocated hours for Open Source contributions.
• 35 paid time off per year.