Senior DevOps Engineer

Do you want to work in an inclusive, engaging environment where people believe in innovating through experimentation and research? Do you love travel and want to have an impact on the future of the travel sector by working closely with industry leaders? Then you might be in the right place! Kaptio is building the next generation of travel reservation technology, and we would like for you to join the journey. 🚀

About Kaptio:

🌍 Our offices: Kaptio is an international Travel Tech company, founded and headquartered in Reykjavik, with operations in Iceland, UK, and Canada. We currently have offices in Reykjavik, Bristol and Reading, and remote coworkers across Canada and Europe.

🫂 Our team: we are about 60 software & product specialists and travel industry experts who are passionate about travel with innovation at heart.

🔮 Our vision: to become the market leader for multi-day travel technology. We have successfully enabled ambitious travel brands to grow with our product, the Kaptio Travel Platform, built on Salesforce.

💞 Our values: our spirited, iterative, and trustworthy nature guides us through our mission to enable ambitious multi-day travel brands to achieve sustainable growth.

😎 Our ethos: we believe that people collaborate best connected together. We offer working spaces that have comfortable and spacious facilities with meeting rooms and quiet areas for our teams to be in sync. We make sure that everyone can be included, regardless of their location, and hybrid collaboration is at the heart of Kaptio as an international company.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our platform team, with extensive experience on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or other cloud service providers. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure that supports our clients’ software applications. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Terraform, some knowledge of AWS and experience using Java and Python.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP
• Implement best practices for CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Octopus Deploy and other tools
• Automate Infrastructure as Code processes using Terraform and other automation tools
• Monitor infrastructure performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and availability
• Create and maintain documentation for infrastructure and deployment processes
• Work with security and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure meets required standards
• Be proactive – Identify opportunities for improvement and implement changes to increase efficiency and reliability of infrastructure
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in DevOps

Ideal track-record and competence

• Extensive experience of deploying Infrastructure As Code using Terraform within GCP / AWS
• Experience with Java and Python programming languages
• Extensive knowledge of provisioning services in GCP, Heroku and AWS environments,
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or other tools
• Knowledge of different database technologies for example Postgres
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously

✈️ Benefits at Kapto:

• An award-winning scale-up company that has over a decade of experience in technology and innovation.
• A motivated and supportive team where everyone is encouraged to progress their skills and share their knowledge with each other.
• A fun company culture with groups and meet-ups, and an emphasis on asynchronous discussions and celebrations. Exciting team get-togethers and team building activities.
• Hybrid-friendly work environment and company culture that supports working remotely when necessary, where work-family balance is very important.
• Competitive salary and benefits. Vary per location, so ask us more!