DevOps Engineer

About Horizons

At Horizons, we're building the infrastructure to power borderless teams. By handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance, our technology enables businesses to hire anyone anywhere compliantly at the push of a button.

If you're interested in adding to our vision of enabling people to work in dream jobs, for every company, and from anywhere in the world, apply now!

We're committed to building a global, diverse team representing different and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, or disability. Being a Horizoneer means being part of a growing, international family.

Overview

We're seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join our growing team and help scale our infrastructure to match Horizons rapid growth. If you thrive in a fast pace environment and are passionate about building highly reliable infrastructures, we invite you to explore the opportunity below.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability, reliability and security of Horizons SaaS platform

• Define metrics to measure the quality of our services and fight to improve them constantly

• Leverage Infrastructure as Code to automate infrastructure deployment and management

• Forecast the load on production components and plan capacity accordingly

• Understand and fix production incidents, take actions to ensure they won’t happen twice

• Contribute to disaster recovery plans and train for operational readiness

• Support Engineering Squads in seamlessly integrating their code within our infrastructure

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in a Software Development role and at least 3 years as a DevOps or SRE

• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and methodologies, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and Configuration Management

• Expertise in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Go

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with Cloud Platforms, preferably AWS

• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitLab CI

• Experience with professional or open-source monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, Data Dog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English

Preferred Skills

• Experience working on public software product, preferably a SaaS platform

• Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform

• Experience with security best practices in a DevOps environment

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

• Ability to work autonomously with little to no supervision

• Passion for learning and staying up-to-date with the latest technology trends

• Set high standards for others and for yourself

If you're looking to build high quality software and enjoy working in a supportive team environment, we encourage you to apply and become a valuable part of our Product and Engineering team.

What it's like working at Horizons

Our service & product. We're a technology company, not an accountancy, payroll provider, recruitment firm or similar. We build a workforce management platform that allows our customers to hire the best talent in minutes, without worrying about compliance, payroll, or HR admin.

Our amazing team and environment. Working at Horizons means you're working on something very exciting: Allowing every person on the planet to have access to equal opportunities in living a fulfilled work and personal life. We believe in hiring from within and going the extra mile to retain top talent. As the company continues to grow extremely fast, you will be given the opportunity to develop and grow alongside.

Our benefits and perks. Being a Horizoneer means that you get the benefit of:

• A competitive salary
• An asynchronous working environment
• A "Remote-First" company environment (or Hybrid) - based on the nature of the job
• The ability to work from abroad for a short period of time
• Growth opportunities within the company
• We provide all new joiners with the necessary hardware to ensure you have the tools you need to succeed from day one

How to apply

Please fill out the form and upload your CV in a PDF format.

If you don’t have an up-to-date CV but you are still keen to reaching out, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Need help? Get in touch with us at: [email protected]