Kontur is looking for an infrastructure engineer for its work-from-home team.

Kontur is a US-based geospatial data and real-time risk management solutions provider for humanitarian, private, and governmental organizations.
For many regions across the globe, natural disasters are not just news headlines – they are the reality of life. We are helping companies, governments, and communities reduce the impact of natural disasters and provide help and resources to those who need them the most.

Duties and responsibilities

The company’s mid-term goal is to continue adopting GitOps and infrastructure as code techniques. Your key responsibilities will include improving our CI/CD processes and deploying resilient data processing pipelines, APIs, and tools. You will solve incident management challenges, acquire crash reports and diagnostic logs, and monitor Kontur SLAs.

Our current technology stack includes:
Self-hosted Kubernetes clusters, Amazon ECS, and non-containerized legacy applications.
We manage deployments at major cloud providers with Flux, Terraform, AWS CDK, and Ansible.
GitLab, GitHub, AWS Developer Tools, Nexus Repository.
Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Zabbix, ELK.
Apps built using Java 11-17, Spring Boot, Postgres+PostGIS, Node.js, and Nginx.

Why would you want to join?

• Technical challenge. You will be participating in framework development, data engineering, and programming geospatial components.
• Unmatched expertise. You will be working alongside GIS community leaders, seasoned tech visionaries, entrepreneurs, engineers, and tech leaders with decades of experience.
• Helping people. Our solutions are already being used by organizations, such as Pacific Disaster Center, Beacon NGO, and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, in real cases of natural and human-made disasters. Knowing that the feature you have been working on saves lives is priceless.
• Flexibility. We believe that only in a comfortable and safe environment we perform at our best. That’s why we have a flexible schedule and avoid overtime work. The healthy and friendly atmosphere in the company is something we truly value and are proud of.

Things we seek

• Strong Linux background.
• Working knowledge of modern application layer protocols of the Internet protocol suite and Kubernetes network model.
• Understanding modern container orchestration tools with hands-on experience using solutions based on Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience putting automation into all stages of CI/CD pipelines.
• Good scripting knowledge (Python, Bash, or Ruby) and understanding of SDLC.
• Desire to learn new domain-specific languages and technologies.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English with good communication skills.

Things that will set you apart

• Possession of production DBA skills, especially towards Postgres+PostGIS.
• Prior back-end development experience.