Sr. DevOps Engineer in Vacasa

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Why Vacasa
We started with just one home and an idea: to bring homeowners and renters together with smart technology and caring local teams. Today, we’re the largest full-service vacation rental company in the US thanks to the people who give us their best every day. You’ll fit right in here if you’re curious, collaborative, innovative, and thrive in a rapid-growth environment.
Why Software Engineering at Vacasa
Do you want to be part of an team helping the largest vacation property management company in the US solve problems on a global scale? Are you excited to explore the benefits of scalability and performance by leveraging modern, cloud-based technologies? At Vacasa, we are constantly experimenting and fine-tuning our products. We value stability, security, and scalability.

Job functions

As a DevOps Team Lead, you will be accountable for the team’s output and growth. At Vacasa, Team Leads manage engineers and are hands-on contributors. You will help design, implement, maintain and improve infrastructure (in the broadest sense) for dozens of services, keeping a business focus and high standards of quality.
  • Help design solutions and implement best practices for supporting the lifecycle of several teams’ services, from project structure, to building, deploying, and releasing
  • Create procedures that encourages automation, standardization and consistency across several services and teams
  • Keep security and scalability as one of the main concerns of every decision
  • Align yours and your team’s actions (together with your fellow Software Engineer Leads) with the department values of: high delivery rate (speed) and quality
  • Work closely with other central teams like: Central DevOps, Security Team and Database reliability teams
  • Maintain and improve the incident report management process, so the amount and severity of incidents are reduced and the efficiency when dealing with them increased
  • Explore new technologies and validate concepts to help your team choose the right tool for the job
  • Review your team’s work and provide recommendations via code reviews and discussion
  • Other duties, as assigned.

Qualifications and requirements

  • +3 years of experience maintaining infrastructure on AWS
  • +3 DevOps or infrastructure engineering role
  • +2 years of experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform
  • Fluency in both written and spoken English
  • Experience writing Infrastructure as Code
  • Experience with Docker and at least one container orchestration system (i.e. Swarm, Fargate, Rancher, Kubernetes)
  • Proficient in at least one programming language (PHP, Python, Typescript)
  • Strong working knowledge of databases (SQL & NoSQL)
  • Experience with automated deployment and integration tooling such as Jenkins, CircleCI, and/or GitHub
  • A solid understanding of build/release processes and continuous delivery
  • Knowledge of operational observability tools like Datadog
  • An affinity for documentation and process
  • Extensive experience working on software projects together with software development teams
  • Adept at facilitating technical discussions that lead to informed decisions
  • Experience or enthusiasm to mentor engineers

Desirable skills

  • Completed a B.S./M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
  • Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies
  • Experience building serverless architectures
  • Experience in the hospitality or travel industry

Amazing Benefits!

  • Employee discounts
  • Open to remote work (Within Chile)
  • Extended Health Benefits! (Seguro Complementario extendido Metlife)
  • Above legal vacations and time-off benefits. (10 Days over legal required minimum)
  • Great saving plan benefits (APV)
  • All of the equipment you’ll need to be successful
  • Great team environment!
At Vacasa we value equity and diversity! We do not discriminate any applicants on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion or religious creed, disability or handicap, sex or gender, gender identity and/or expression or sexual orientation.

Pet-friendly Pets are welcome at the premises.
Health coverage Vacasa pays or copays health insurance for employees.
Computer provided Vacasa provides a computer for your work.
Informal dress code No dress code is enforced.
Vacation over legal Vacasa gives you paid vacations over the legal minimum.
Beverages and snacks Vacasa offers beverages and snacks for free consumption.

Remote work policy

Locally remote only

Position is 100% remote, but candidates must reside in Chile.

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