Avature

From creating the toolchain and coding automations used by our developers and cloud engineers, to designing and managing the environments used by our applications, DevOps plays a fundamental role in building and maintaining Avature. 

We develop a platform used to create solutions for all kinds of industries, resulting in an exciting work environment, full of novel technical challenges and learning opportunities. 

Technical Leaders take the lead in this journey, using their analytical and technical skills (and above all, their enthusiasm) to tackle the complex problems of a feature-rich yet user-friendly enterprise application, driving forward the growth of a product used by thousands of users every day

Your challenges and objectives:

• Achieve a rounded knowledge of our platform by understanding the complex interaction of a wide range of areas and services, from network layer to final user. 
  
• Lead and design the deployment and configuration of Avature's applications.
• Have a vision of the team’s ideal design and plan a technical roadmap to get there. 
• Align your team in a vision for the set of modules, products, or applications within its scope. 
• Take an active role in your team’s development in collaboration with the team manager. 
• Own and be responsible for your team’s code quality. Taking care of: reliability, security, performance, scalability, maintainability, alignment with design standards, etc.

Your day-to-day activities:

• Ensure that the technical roadmap is followed and monitor the production environment.
  
• Coach team members on the technical aspects of their activities.
• Promote best practices in deployments and infrastructure management across various teams.
  
• See to the technical side of day-to-day work, ensuring that technical analysis and code reviews are performed, among other tasks. 
• Design our configuration management system, deployment platform and its associated processes.
  
• Proactively plan, design, and develop highly distributed systems.
• Help your team navigate tradeoffs between functional and non-functional requirements (security, performance, maintainability, etc.).

About you:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong background in OOP, architecture, performance, and efficiency.
  
• Mentoring and leadership experience.
  
• Superior analytical/troubleshooting skills.
• Solid understanding of operating system concepts.
• Knowledge of infrastructure management technologies (Puppet, Packer, Terraform, LXD, AWS, KVM, Docker, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fluency in any structured programming language (preferably Python).
• Experience in product as a service operation.
• Working knowledge of Unix, preferably Linux.

About us:

Avature is a market leading enterprise SaaS Solution provider for global talent acquisition and talent management. We have a strong commitment to high quality engineering and customer service and are recognized innovators in the very large company market. We currently work with over 650 companies worldwide, including 110 of the Fortune 500, all of the Big Four consulting firms, the largest banks and manufacturers in the world, and five governments.

We design, build, implement, and support our product ourselves. With 26 releases a year and a strong commitment to innovation and quality engineering, our private cloud platform has become the product choice for the very large global organization.

At Avature, we value opportunities to learn and grow within a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment. We encourage autonomy and empower our people to approach challenges innovatively while bringing their unique perspective to the table. We offer a career development program that supports continuous learning and thoughtful leadership, and that meaningfully impacts each individual’s professional trajectory.

What we offer:

• A fast-paced, energetic, and engaging environment.

• Flexible hours - Work remotely.
• Competitive salary, with one review a year.
• Four days a year to attend events related to professional development.
• End of year week off (December 26 to 31).
• Birthdays off.

An organizational culture that empowers everyone to be themselves is key to thrive in business, but more importantly, it is a pathway for creating a more equitable society. Avature fosters a diverse and inclusive environment and celebrates that each unique person brings something different to our team. We are committed to considering all qualified applicants equally and to promoting equal opportunities within our organization.