Job Description

Founded by Michael Lahyani in 2005 as a magazine (Al Bab World), Property Finder today is a single technology platform and brand across multiple countries in the MENA region. We offer the most advanced tools and best-in-class user experience for homeseekers, real estate brokers, and developers. Property Finder's most recent valuation secures our status among the Middle East's emerging unicorns, affirming a growth-oriented identity.



Over the years, we've expanded our operations to Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and secured a strategic shareholding in Hepsiemlak, the leading property portal in Turkey. With over 600+ dedicated people in 6 regional offices, we facilitate more than 14 million monthly visits across our platforms, solidifying our position as a regional powerhouse in the proptech space.



As the pioneering portal for homeseekers in the region, we are on a mission to motivate and inspire people to live the life they deserve.


We are looking for incredibly talented DevOps Engineer to join our development team here at Property Finder. We believe in nurturing your talent and we encourage creativity and autonomy where you are free to grow and develop your career in a fun, forward thinking and positive environment.



As a company, we are very performance oriented and test the performance of all code and database queries, but we always ensure that this does not affect code quality and legibility. We take the time to refactor and rework code when necessary, but we always have the business goals in mind when doing this.



We expect our developers to be passionate about new technologies and think of creative ways that they could benefit our business. We want our developers to stay current with changes in Cloud technologies like AWS, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Serverless, Managed services, etc



We are big proponents of Agile development methods with small cross-functional teams fully empowered to take an idea from inception and to be able to deliver it fully tested into production with minimal outside disruptions. Because of this you will need to be able to work well with others in your team and be able to contribute meaningful ideas on how to best achieve your objectives and key results.


Responsibilities


• Improve service reliability and responding to operational issues at all levels of application stack
• Being a part of the whole SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) to improve quality of service
• Develop and improve CI/CD workflows for development/staging/production environments
• Participate in investigation process in case of any issues/incidents with service
• Implement and maintain service monitoring and reporting
• Security Observability: logging, detection, alerting, response and investigation


Requirements


• 3+ years experience with container administration (Docker, EKS, Fargate)
• 3+ years production experience and deep knowledge with major cloud providers including AWS and Google Cloud Platform highly preferred
• Good communication skills, able to present and collaborate, moving from ideas to identifying key needs and actions
• Experience working in a 24/7 operations environment and managing a large number of containers, cluster, etc.
• Scripting experience with at least two programming languages: Shell, Python, GoLang
• Experience with database administration (MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres)
• Understanding of CI/CD and practical experience with it (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub, BitBucket)
• Experience with monitor tools: CloudWatch, NewRelic, Datadog


Would be a big plus:


• Experience with container orchestration tools: Amazon ECS, Kubernetes
• Experience with provision infrastructure as code: Terraform, Cloudformation
• Good troubleshooting skills in PHP, JavaScript/NodeJS, Golang stack

Our promise to talent



We encourage our people, called creators, to move fast, to be bold and offer them countless ways to make an impact in a fast-growing and talent-centric organisation.



Our goal is to ensure that our people find their time at Property Finder a rewarding experience where the company's growth also means personal growth.



Overall it is a place for you to be your best self.




Property Finder Principles


• Move fast and make things happen
• Data beats opinions
• Don't confuse motion with progress
• Failure is success if we learn from it
• People over pixels