Infrastructure Specialist

The environment

• A flexible, friendly, and super-collaborative multicultural environment
• An inspiring company mission
• A very fast-growing company with unlimited opportunities of personal and professional growth
• Completely remote working

Our recruiting process

Anxious before the interview, not too sure about how to prepare? Our advice? Just be yourself! We select our employees based on their attitude and potential, and we value honesty and authenticity immensely, since these two traits are some of our guiding principles. Our recruiting and hiring process is structured in four steps:

Step 1: Introduction-Online Interview

The first stage of our recruiting process includes and online interview with the HR Department and the Innovation Lead. In the beginning, we want to get to know you better, including your experience, your motivation behind applying, and your expectations for the specific role. Additionally, we want to share with you some things regarding our product, values, and aspirations.

Step 2: Deep dive to the specifications of the role

It is crucial for us to understand your professional experience and see if you can fit or not with our company culture. For that reason, the second stage of our recruitment process includes a take home -case study, focused on the needs of each role, to give us a better sense of your skills, and your mindset. There are no correct or wrong answers here! Feel free to create and innovate! Within 2 business days we evaluate it and come back to you regarding the next steps.

Step 3: Interview with our CEO and the Team Lead

As a last step we have an interview with our CEO + the Team Lead, where we are discussing your answers in the case study and evaluate the value compatibility.

Job offer

Congratulations! You made it happen! You have received an offer from us, and we are looking forward to welcoming you to our team!

Your responsibilities

• Ensuring availability, integrity and digital security through corrective, preventive and adaptive maintenance on applications, ICT systems and network infrastructure and the implementation of measures to guarantee business continuity.
• Optimizing the dataflow in our organization: infrastructure design, change and configuration management, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Conduct technical evaluation and propose physical architectures along with detailed designs, such as server and database clustering.

• Analyze problems, evaluate technical issues, test, maintain, modify, integrate, monitor and ensure to automate software systems.
• Conduct long range strategic plans of IT infrastructure plus operational aspects of application execution within infrastructure.
• Ensure optimal performance of servers, and related infrastructure, and minimize downtime and disruption.
• Support install applications for system production and test to ensure maximum support through applying best practices.
• Write infrastructure related scripts to automate manual tasks plus streamline operational activities.
• Involve actively in teams of cross functional projects to assist and solve infrastructure related problems.
• Investigating bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement and, if necessary, formulating change needs and opportunities.
• Efficient implementation of (critical) applications and ICT systems in the IT infrastructure.
• Developing a change approach when implementations have major consequences for the business operations of the organization.
• Developing test plans.
• Drive for delivery of high-quality solutions and the willingness to go the extra mile to achieve our high customer expectations.
• Fluent in business process analysis, writing protocols, network architecture, and fault isolation.

Required skills

• Experience as an infrastructure specialist for (5+ years).
• Experience in server architecture and deployment.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to optimize the dataflows in our organization, draft infrastructure proposals and change management plans, identify and resolve potential bottlenecks.
• Ability to conduct technical evaluations and propose architectures along with detailed designs, such as server and database clustering.
• A deep understanding of and experience with network architectures, data warehouses (data lakes, analytics warehouses), distributed clusters, replication and scaling.
• Practical skills in configuration management, performance analysis and tuning, and monitoring.
• Nice to have experience in OTT streaming service.
• A drive for delivery of high-quality solutions and the willingness to go the extra mile to achieve our high customer expectations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to communicate with a variety of people, including colleagues, clients, suppliers and contractors.
• Proficient in English, both verbally and in writing.

Languages and tools we use (just to give an idea):

Languages: Bash, Python Tools / frameworks: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Rancher, Flussonic, Nimble Streamer, Minio, WHM/cPanel

Technologies: Kafka, Spark, HDFS / Parquet, Spark SQL.