Senior Cloud Engineer

Remote Portugal, Portugal
OLX – Engineering /
Full-time /
Remote
WELCOME TO OLX

At OLX, we work together to build a more sustainable world through trade.
We make it safe, smart, and convenient to buy and sell cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and more. Our colleagues around the world help to serve millions of people around the world every month, through its well-loved consumer brands including OLX, Otomoto, Property24.
Join OLX and see how far you can go.

Fasten your helmet and climb on board if you’re ready to be our Senior Cloud Engineer as part of our Global OLX Business IT Cloud infrastructure team. You'll build, operate and maintain systems used to host OLX group’s core business applications and productivity tools in a reliable manner. Given ample opportunity to sharpen your system engineering skills, you'll own the full lifecycle of our cloud systems, from design to all the way up to deployment.


What you will be doing:

- Design, plan, build and operate OLX Group’s business applications and productivity tools on AWS cloud platform
- Evolve cloud hosted applications and services by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
- Setup, maintain and improve system observability stack to be more proactive than reactive system operations
- Participate in a dynamic team cadence with sprint cycle to collaborate with your team members
- Promote and practice technical documentation from design to deployment and maintenance of systems
- Participate in on-call rotation for system operational support to keep our critical system always up and running
- Manage AWS resources spread across several regions like EC2, RDS, S3, Route53, Certificate Manager, EFS, Lambda, Athena, Workspaces, Workdocs, Elasticache, IAM, Cloudwatch and AWS Backup.
- Manage Gitlab, Tableau, SAP on S4/Hana, Hoppscotch, RPA UI Path all running on AWS.
- Manage SaaS like JFrog, Postman, Sectigo SSL Certificate Manager services.
- Track tasks using Jira and ServiceNow.


What technical/soft skills we’re looking for:
- Solid work experience in operating AWS cloud and implementing AWS Infrastructure as Code best practices and technologies (e.g., Terraform, Atlantis).
- Practical working knowledge of designing, planning, building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment.
- Observability skills and experience using platforms like Prometheus, Grafana.
- A system engineer’s working knowledge with Linux operating systems.
- Comfortable to write and maintain Python and Bash scripts to automate tasks.
- Fluent with git version control systems and working knowledge of CI/CD systems, mainly Gitlab CI/CD pipelines.
- System’s networking knowledge is desirable, understanding how network routing and firewall works.
- Previous software development experience is useful but not mandatory.
- Fluent in both written and spoken English.

What we’ll give you:
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Contributing to the OLX Group at global scale
- Work with an international team of top engineers with diverse backgrounds
- Great learning opportunities with unlimited access to one of world's top learning portals
- Budget for conference and certification with focus on personal development plan

What you need to know about us:
OLX is the world’s leading classifieds platform in high-growth markets. It’s available in more than 35 countries and in over 50 languages. The platform makes it so easy to connect people to buy, sell or exchange used goods and services.
OLX is part of the OLX Group, a global product and tech company with 17 brands, +40 countries, +8000 people and one mindset.
Our mission is to make it super easy for people to buy and sell almost anything, boosting local economies.
We are proud to be different, and we work differently too. We combine the spirit and agility of a start-up with the maturity that comes from being part of a 100 year-old company.
We are curious, ambitious and allergic to corporate interference. We improvise, experiment and push each other further, embracing uncertainty and driving change.


Why join OLX? 
At OLX, we invest in ourselves and each other to reach our full potential. We avoid bureaucracy and empower our teams to innovate; with opportunities, training, and leadership behaviors a key focus for all. Our commitment to inclusion ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions. And, we combine the spirit and agility of a startup with our global scale and the backing of Prosus, one of the largest consumer internet groups in the world.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OLX
At OLX, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We strongly encourage people of all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.
If you are excited about this role, and your past experiences do not align perfectly with every criteria asked for in the job description, we would still like you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities across the business, and we'd like to hear from you.

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