Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Unit

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world's key challenges - resource scarcity, food insecurity, and environmental change.

Yara has an ambitious strategic agenda to be the crop nutrition company for the future and is taking lead in the development towards sustainable agriculture and digital tools, to contribute to solving the challenges which the agricultural industry is facing globally. We have a worldwide presence with sales to ~150 countries and around 17 000 employees. The newly established function, Yara Farming Solutions, will lead the transformation towards more sustainable and efficient food production, by innovating our offering and the way we work.

The software engineering department is responsible for developing and scaling new “on-farm” digital and integrated tools and solutions, which will work toward driving a more efficient and transparent food system and better live environment.

Responsibilities

Build, develop and improve the global Cloud Platform for infrastructure, security and operations
Maintain and improve Yara Europe infrastructure code written via terraform and AWS cloud development kit
Empower and support solution teams in getting to production and running stable services
Organize global operations and incident response process and tooling
Running and maintaining our production infrastructure in AWS - Kuberenets cluster and all other services used by data and software engineering teams
Analysis of complex system behaviour, performance and application issues within distributed systems generally, and Kubernetes in particular
Development of monitoring solutions and analysis across multiple data centers
Capacity analysis and planning, traffic routing, and security policies
Support, guide and educate the development teams on production ready, scalable engineering patterns
Drive adoption of and adherence to global operations and infrastructure standards in the local development teams
Perform infrastructure trainings to software and data engineers
Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines written via Github Actions

Profile

First and foremost, you are a software engineer, Operations and Infrastructure challenges are solved with software and automation
Hands-on experience with Linux/UNIX systems administration and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience and comfort with working hands-on with a range of scripting, infrastructure, services and tools including:
Scripting and software engineering (Python/Ruby/Bash/Go/etc.) - (Strong Must)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Kubernetes and container orchestration
Web servers (Nginx,Apache), Application Servers(Tomcat,Node.js), document stores and relational databases (Postgres)
API Gateways (Ambassador) and Services Mesh (Istio)
IP networking, including familiarity with the functionality, operating, and failure modes of networks
Site Rebility Engineering patterns and visibilty/performance/availability monitoring (Datadog, Instana,Nagios.)
Experience with mobile app deployment pipelines and supporting SaaS services (Firebase, MS App Center.)
Experience with Agile Methodology & principles for Software Development
Background in and happy to work hands-on with technical troubleshooting and performance tuning

Additional Information

Personal qualities

Collaborative and thrive on self-improvement and self-learning
Open to constructive feedback, both giving and receiving, according to Yara’s values
Ready to make an impact, be a key player in the team, take ownership and you execute with conviction
Proactive and constructive even if things get ambiguous, uncertain and willing to ask for clarification

You get
•To directly impact products that provide real value to farmers and industries based on an honest business model
•To work on sustainable solutions that benefit humankind and the environment
•To work in a company dedicated to empowering individuals from all backgrounds and value each person's unique perspectives
•Competitive remuneration and additional benefits
•A flexible yet stable environment in the digital unit of a global company
•Flexible working hours, working from home/remote option
•Support for personal development, training and continuous learning
•Commitment to using new approaches, technologies, and frameworks
•To choose your own preferred MacOS hardware