Title: Site Reliability Engineer, Yara Global Devops
Berlin, Germany
September 2019-April 2021
Migration and standardization of several diverse systems infrastructure setups
from Yara's globally distributed teams into a standard Kubernetes and AWS-based
infrastructure.
Deployment, administration and support of Kubernetes clusters at scale on AWS
EKS.
Migration of business-critical infrastructure from diverse ad-hoc solutions into
automated management using Infrastructure-as-code practices with Hashicorp
Terraform.
Implementation and auditing of secure software development practices in
accordance with Yara International's organizational focus on security.
Collaboration with Yara Security to implement automated security auditing at the
code, container and infrastructure level.
Infrastructure monitoring and logging using industry-standard tooling (Instana
and EFK stack).
Planned and executed infrastructure automation tasks.
Oversaw implementation of components of a new Data Science and Business
intelligence stack based on Apache Airflow.
Participated in training and guiding diverse global teams on optimal
infrastructure, code and security practices.
Handled the design and implementation of major new features in the company's
main backend component (Ruby on Rails API monolith).
Design and implementation of major new features in Trecker's data pipeline. This
involved processing live-streamed event and position Kinesis data streams from
mobile clients, through a set of Go microservices and persistence/analysis using
Elasticsearch).
Participation in infrastructure migration from Heroku/Codeship to Docker Image
deployments on AWS ECS clusters.
Deployment, administration and support of a new CI/CD infrastructure based on
selfhosted Jenkins instances.
Extraction of key business insights from trecker's main Postgres data store
using elf-hosted Redash (Redash.io).
Co-development of an in-house Data Warehousing solution. Provides platform-wide
analytics and user activity tracking. Extensive use of ElasticSearch structured
queries.
Development of a platform-wide media asset manager. Flexible automated
customization of
Android and iOS application frontends in accordance with client specifications.
Extensive transformation of the platform's backend architecture to allow for
easy
interoperability with third-party code. Supported the company's transition to a
White Label application model.
Development of a comprehensive unit test set for deployed backend code.