DevOps Engineer
Summary
Senior DevOps engineer in Bogotá (5+ years, incl. team-lead experience) who designs CI/CD pipelines in Harness and manages AWS/EKS infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, and Kafka for event-driven systems. Travel/hospitality domain experience and IaC skills (Terraform/CloudFormation) are a plus.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- 5+ years in DevOps/Cloud Engineering.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or DevOps Team Lead leading engineering teams and enterprise DevOps initiatives.
- Strong experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using Harness or similar DevOps platforms.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Amazon EKS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Experience implementing cloud-native deployment strategies and infrastructure automation.
- Strong understanding of containerization, orchestration, and microservices architecture.
- Experience supporting event-driven systems using Apache Kafka.
- Familiarity with MongoDB, NoSQL databases, WebSockets, and GraphQL integrations.
- Strong knowledge of Git and modern software development workflows.
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication, leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the travel, hospitality, or lodging industry.
- Hands-on development experience with ReactJS, Node.Js, or other JavaScript frameworks.
- Experience with Bash or other Unix scripting languages.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or equivalent Azure certifications.
- Experience with enterprise architecture or solution architecture.
- Experience with distributed systems, scalable applications, and high-availability environments.
Skills
- Agile
- Automation
- AWS
- Azure
- Bash
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Native
- CloudFormation
- Containerization
- DevOps
- Distributed Systems
- Docker
- EKS
- Event Driven Architecture
- Git
- GraphQL
- Infrastructure as Code
- JavaScript
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
- MongoDB
- Node.js
- NoSQL
- React
- Scrum
- Stakeholder Management
- Terraform
- Unix
- Websockets