Platform Engineering Manager

DISQO is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead company's Platform Engineering Practice in Armenia.

is a consumer insights platform. The company provides the highest quality consumer data to the world's largest market research agencies, analytics companies, and brands.

This mission depends on the integrity of the platform. To that end, DISQO is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead company's Platform Engineering Practice in Armenia.

Platform Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

Build world-class platform engineering teams
Help define, audit and enforce engineering standards to improve our overall delivery process
Provide technical leadership by example to both your team members and your peers
Work to build, maintain and continuously enrich the quality of our platform engineering with a combination of off-the-shelf technologies and custom engineering.
Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
Own the day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of our AWS infrastructure

Qualifications & Competencies

2+ years working with geographically distributed agile engineering teams
Demonstrated expertise in the area of infrastructure engineering (SRE, Devops, Platform, etc), AWS and related technologies.
Demonstrated ability to solve engineering problems at the code level, and the ability to curate codebases in multiple languages
Demonstrated ability to perform root cause analysis using system resident linux tools
Experience with container stacks and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS)
Experience with IAC and Configuration Management tools
An understanding of microservice architecture and experience decomposing monoliths
Experience implementing application monitoring tools (DataDog, New Relic, SumoLogic, etc)
Solid understandinsg of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, OSI stack model, L2, L3 and L7 fundamentals and raw packet analysis
A CICD first mindset, including experience with the tools and processes needed to perform production deployments

Perks and Benefits

Health insurance
Gym reimbursement
Flexible hours

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Why Armenia?

Steady growth

Armenia is emerging as a new hub for tech professionals. For the past several years Armenian tech sector retains 27%+ consistent annual growth. As a result in 2017 turnover of IT sector equaled to 7% of total GDP of the country.

Steady growth of the sector serves as a base for the development of tech community. In Yerevan 5,3% of all working populations is employed in tech sector, making every 19th of the city's working population a developer.

Savouring the moment

Competitive salaries in addition to the low cost of living create comfortable living conditions. Yerevan is 31% cheaper than Moscow, 66% cheaper than Los Angeles and 49% cheaper than Beirut.

Armenia is a place to enjoy food and not to worry about its condition. Armenian agricultural sector traditionally is a strong one in the country. This is one of the reasons National Geographic included Yerevan to the list of 6 unexpected cities for food lovers.

Safe environment

Yerevan is one of the safest cities in the world. Sincere hospitality and openness are embedded in people's nature, that is the reason for a low crime index. Armenia is among top-15 safest countries in the world, during night time Yerevan is safer than cities like Moscow, Berlin, London or Vienna. Regarding children's security and overall well-being, according to The Children's Society (UK), Armenia is in the top-3.

High quality education

In Armenia there are several educational programs that do not have analogues in the world: Ayb school, UWC international college and Tumo Center for Creative Technologies, where 15 thousand children are taught programming by the leading experts in the field on a free basis. In addition, starting from 2011 chess has been included in compulsory curriculum in all schools across Armenia (BBC article).

Wonderful nature

Armenia is a museum in itself, a place to discover and draw inspiration from. On the weekends one by one you can explore 9 out of 12 climate zones represented in the country.

Yerevan is the world second city in regards to outdoor possibilities, water access and presence of mountains and hills in the city and 286 sunny days per year. One hour drive from the city there is ski resort, six hour drive and you are in Batumi, Black seaside resort city.