Job Description
Join our DeviantArt team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and play a pivotal role in maintaining and architecting a robust infrastructure that powers one of the largest online art communities. You'll be at the forefront of ensuring our platform's high availability, performance, and security, handling over 1.5 billion monthly page views. In this role, you will:
Architect and maintain a highly available infrastructure with a focus on proactive and reactive DDOS mitigation, site performance, and cost optimization
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, responding swiftly to outages or performance issues
Maintain a developer environment in parity with production systems, as well as CI/CD pipelines, for seamless testing and release of changes
Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using configuration management tools, complete with tests and documentation
Optimize and support sharded MySQL databases for efficient and reliable data handling amidst growing demands
Regularly update system components to maintain security and up-to-date technology
Requirements
5+ years of experience managing systems at scale as a DevOps, Platform Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer
Excellent analytical skills with the ability to implement DDOS mitigation, troubleshoot complex problems, analyze system bottlenecks, and implement effective solutions, from frontend through backend systems, sometimes during production degradation or outage for a high traffic site
Exceptional command line Linux skills, with proficiency in Bash and Python for scripting and automation
In-depth knowledge of AWS services, infrastructure as code using Terraform, GitOps tools and methodologies, and container orchestration using Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes
Experience with setup, administration, and maintenance of sharded MySQL database clusters while maintaining zero downtime or data loss
Excellent communication skills with fluent English, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams while articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
The ability to get up to speed on systems, make decisions, be flexible, and execute independently with attention to detail for production systems
Experience with Vespa.ai or other search systems - an advantage
About Wix
Wix makes it possible for anyone to succeed online.
Since 2006, we've grown to around 5,300 employees in 22 countries, launched over 40 products, and serve over 282 million users and their visitors worldwide.
At Wix, we push you to innovate, evolve in non-traditional ways, and collaborate. We operate in small teams that work closely together at a high level.
We're proud to be an equal opportunity company. Wix was built around the idea that everyone has the right to be successful, online. This same vision defines us as a company: creating a work environment where everyone is welcome, and anyone has the right to succeed.
