Incident & Major Incident management 

Key Responsibilities 

• Serve as the Incident Manager / Major Incident Manager for high-severity and business-impacting incidents by organizing incident bridges and war rooms, driving Rapid triage / Clear ownership / Timely decision-making 

• Ensure incidents are properly classified, prioritized, and escalated based on impact and urgency 

ITSM Process Ownership & Governance 

• Enforce ITIL-aligned Incident and Problem Management practices 

• Ensure accurate and complete documentation within ServiceNow, including Impact and affected services / Incident timelines / Root cause summaries and follow-ups 

• Play the role of Problem Manager to Identify recurring issues and systemic risks / Ensure RCAs are completed with actionable outcomes 

• Act as a process authority during incidents, ensuring teams adhere to defined ITSM standards 

Service Availability, Reliability & KPIs 

• Own operational oversight of service availability and reliability - Monitor and manage key service health indicators, including Service availability and uptime / Incident volumes and severity trends / MTTR and MTTD / SLA and OLA adherence 

• Use observability data to proactively identify service degradation and emerging risks 

• Escalate systemic availability or reliability concerns to leadership with data-backed insights 

Observability & Operational Intelligence 

• Actively leverage observability platforms (e.g., Grafana, Datadog)  

• Partner with engineering and SRE teams to improve Monitoring coverage / Alert quality and signal-to-noise ratio 

• Ensure alerting and escalation via PagerDuty aligns with service criticality 

Communication & Executive Engagement: 

• Serve as the primary communication lead during incidents - Deliver concise, executive-level updates that articulate Business impact / Current status / Mitigation steps / Next milestones 

• Translate complex technical details into clear business language 

• Maintain confidence and composure while engaging senior leaders during high-pressure events 

Post-Incident & Continuous Improvement: 

• Facilitate or support post-incident reviews - Identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for Process improvement / Tooling enhancement / Better operational readiness 

• Contribute to the evolution of Command Center playbooks, runbooks, and response standards 

Required Qualifications & Experience 

Experience 

• 3–6 years of experience in: 

• Incident Management 

• Major Incident / Command Center operations 

• Production operations or site reliability support 

• Proven experience managing high-severity incidents in 24×7 environments 

• Demonstrated ownership of service reliability and operational KPIs 

ITSM & Process Expertise 

• Strong working knowledge of ITIL / ITSM frameworks 

• Deep hands-on experience with: 

• Incident Management 

• Major Incident workflows 

• Problem Management  

• Experience enforcing ITSM discipline across distributed technology teams 

Skills & Competencies 

• Exceptional communication and facilitation skills 

• Strong analytical mindset with comfort using metrics and dashboards 

• Ability to operate decisively in high-pressure situations 

• Influences outcomes without formal authority 

• Comfortable interfacing with executive leadership 

Nice-to-Have 

• Experience in regulated or customer-critical environments (FinTech, Payments, SaaS) 

• Exposure to ITSM tools like ServiceNow, PagerDuty etc. 

• Exposure to monitoring tools like Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace etc. 

About Convera

Convera is the largest non-bank B2B cross-border payments company in the world. Formerly Western Union Business Solutions, we leverage decades of industry expertise and technology-led payment solutions to deliver smarter money movements to our customers – helping them capture more value with every transaction. Convera serves more than 30,000 customers ranging from small business owners to enterprise treasurers, educational institutions, financial institutions, law firms, and NGOs.

Our teams care deeply about the value we bring to our customers, making Convera a rewarding workplace. This is an exciting time for our organization as we build our team with growth-minded, results-oriented people who are looking to move fast in an innovative environment.

As a truly global company with employees in over 20 countries, we are passionate about diversity; we seek and celebrate people from different backgrounds, lifestyles, and unique points of view. We want to work with the best people and ensure we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging.

We offer an abundance of competitive perks and benefits including:

• Market competitive salary.
• Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization.
• Hybrid schedule with 2 in the office per week.
• Generous insurance (health, disability, life).
• Paid holidays, time-off, and leave policies for life events (maternity, paternity, adoption).
• Paid volunteering opportunities (5 days per year).
• This position follows a shift roster defined by the company. As we operate in a 24/7 environment, the selected candidate will work according to rotating schedules.

Apply now if you’re ready to unleash your potential.

Gestión de Incidentes y Mayores Incidentes

Responsabilidades Clave

• Actuar como Incident Manager / Major Incident Manager para incidentes de alta severidad e impacto empresarial, organizando incident bridges y war rooms, impulsando una triage rápida, propiedad clara y toma de decisiones oportuna.
• Garantizar que los incidentes estén correctamente clasificados, priorizados y escalados según impacto y urgencia.

Propiedad de Procesos ITSM y Gobernanza

• Hacer cumplir las prácticas de Gestión de Incidentes y Problemas alineadas con ITIL.
• Asegurar documentación precisa y completa en ServiceNow, incluyendo: impacto y servicios afectados, líneas de tiempo del incidente, resúmenes de causa raíz y seguimientos.
• Actuar como Problem Manager para identificar problemas recurrentes y riesgos sistémicos, garantizando que los análisis de causa raíz (RCA) se completen con resultados accionables.
• Actuar como autoridad de proceso durante incidentes, asegurando la adherencia a los estándares ITSM definidos.

Disponibilidad del Servicio, Confiabilidad y KPIs

• Ser responsable de la supervisión operativa de la disponibilidad y confiabilidad del servicio. Monitorear y gestionar indicadores clave, como: disponibilidad y tiempo activo del servicio, volúmenes y tendencias de severidad de incidentes, MTTR y MTTD, cumplimiento de SLA y OLA.
• Utilizar datos de observabilidad para identificar proactivamente degradaciones del servicio y riesgos emergentes.
• Escalar preocupaciones sistémicas de disponibilidad o confiabilidad al liderazgo con insights fundamentados en datos.

Observabilidad e Inteligencia Operacional

• Aprovechar activamente plataformas de observabilidad (p. ej., Grafana, Datadog).
• Colaborar con equipos de ingeniería y SRE para mejorar la cobertura de monitoreo, la calidad de alertas y la relación señal/ruido.
• Asegurar que las alertas y escalaciones vía PagerDuty estén alineadas con la criticidad del servicio.

Comunicación y Relación con Ejecutivos

• Ser el punto principal de comunicación durante incidentes: brindar actualizaciones concisas a nivel ejecutivo que articulen el impacto al negocio, estado actual, pasos de mitigación y próximos hitos.
• Traducir detalles técnicos complejos a un lenguaje claro de negocio.
• Mantener confianza y compostura al interactuar con líderes senior durante eventos de alta presión.

Post-Incidente y Mejora Continua

• Facilitar o apoyar revisiones posteriores al incidente, identificando tendencias, brechas y oportunidades para mejorar procesos, herramientas y preparación operativa.
• Contribuir a la evolución de los playbooks, runbooks y estándares de respuesta del Command Center.

Calificaciones y Experiencia Requerida

Experiencia

• 3–6 años de experiencia en:
• Gestión de Incidentes
• Operaciones de Mayores Incidentes / Command Center
• Operaciones de producción o soporte de confiabilidad del sitio (SRE)
• Experiencia comprobada gestionando incidentes de alta severidad en entornos 24×7.
• Evidencia de liderazgo en la confiabilidad del servicio y KPIs operativos.

Conocimientos ITSM y de Procesos

• Sólido conocimiento de marcos ITIL / ITSM.
• Amplia experiencia práctica en:
• Gestión de Incidentes
• Flujos de trabajo de Mayores Incidentes
• Gestión de Problemas
• Experiencia haciendo cumplir disciplina ITSM en equipos tecnológicos distribuidos.

Habilidades y Competencias

• Habilidades excepcionales de comunicación y facilitación.
• Mentalidad analítica y comodidad usando métricas y tableros.
• Capacidad para operar con decisión en situaciones de alta presión.
• Influencia efectiva sin autoridad formal.
• Comodidad al interactuar con liderazgo ejecutivo.

Deseable

• Experiencia en entornos regulados o críticos para clientes (FinTech, Pagos, SaaS).
• Conocimiento de herramientas ITSM como ServiceNow, PagerDuty, etc.
• Conocimiento de herramientas de monitoreo como Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace, etc.

Sobre Convera

Convera es la empresa de pagos transfronterizos B2B más grande del mundo fuera del sector bancario. Anteriormente conocida como Western Union Business Solutions, aprovechamos décadas de experiencia en la industria y soluciones tecnológicas para ofrecer movimientos de dinero más inteligentes a nuestros clientes, ayudándolos a capturar mayor valor en cada transacción.

Convera atiende a más de 30,000 clientes, desde propietarios de pequeñas empresas hasta tesoreros corporativos, instituciones educativas, instituciones financieras, firmas legales y ONG.

Nuestros equipos se preocupan profundamente por el valor que brindamos a nuestros clientes, lo cual hace que Convera sea un lugar de trabajo gratificante. Este es un momento emocionante para nuestra organización mientras construimos un equipo con personas orientadas al crecimiento y enfocadas en resultados, que quieran avanzar rápidamente en un entorno innovador.

Como una empresa verdaderamente global con empleados en más de 20 países, somos apasionados por la diversidad; buscamos y celebramos personas de distintos orígenes, estilos de vida y perspectivas únicas. Queremos trabajar con el mejor talento y fomentar una cultura de inclusión y pertenencia.

Ofrecemos múltiples beneficios competitivos:

• Salario competitivo en el mercado.
• Excelentes oportunidades de crecimiento y desarrollo profesional en una organización global.
• Un enfoque flexible al trabajo y un esquema híbrido con 2 días a la semana en la oficina.
• Generoso seguro (salud, discapacidad, vida).
• Días feriados, tiempo libre y políticas de licencia para eventos de vida (maternidad, paternidad, adopción).
• Oportunidades de voluntariado pagadas (5 días por año).
• Esta posición sigue un rol de turnos definido por la empresa. Como operamos en un entorno 24/7, la persona seleccionada trabajará según horarios rotativos

Why You'll Love This Role: 

We're looking for an experienced ML Ops Engineer to join the ML/AI team at Newsela. This team works on projects ranging from classical Machine Learning to AI / Generative pipelines.  This is a hands-on role. You'll work closely with ML/AI, data and site reliability engineers to take models from prototype to production, build robust data pipelines, and keep our services running smoothly as we continue to scale.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML model training, packaging, and deployment across our microservices.
• Manage containerized services on AWS ECS, optimizing for cost, latency, and availability.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and service configuration with Terraform.
• Work to maintain and scale services that make use of third party LLM providers.
• Build and improve data pipelines that feed models from BigQuery, S3, and DynamoDB into training and inference workflows.
• Instrument services with observability tooling (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Langfuse) and establish SLOs for model-serving endpoints.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize new models using BentoML, FastAPI, and container-based serving.

About You:

• 2-3 years in ML Ops supporting ML/AI features, systems and workflows with 3-4 years prior experience in DevOps, CloudOps or SRE.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Hands-on experience with Docker containerization and container orchestration.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD for ML workflows in an enterprise production environment.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms — specifically AWS (ECS, ECR, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch) and GCP (BigQuery, Vertex AI).
• Experience with LLM integration and observability (OpenAI API, Google GenAI, Langfuse tracing).
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines for ML training and feature engineering
• Familiarity with ML modeling workflows — training, evaluation, experiment tracking (e.g. MLFlow, Weights & Biases), and model versioning
• Experience monitoring and flagging model drift over time.
• Exposure to NLP/NLU models and frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, or sentence-transformers
• Knowledge of vector databases (LanceDB, FAISS) and embedding-based retrieval systems
• Experience with scaling and maintaining deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) in production settings
• Familiarity with classical ML libraries (scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM) and model explainability tools (SHAP)
• Working knowledge of ML serving frameworks such as BentoML or similar.
• Comfort working with FastAPI or similar async Python web frameworks.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

#LI-Remote

Why You'll Love This Role: 

As a Senior Site Reliability Contractor, you will be involved in coding infrastructure automation with Terraform and Github Actions CI/CD. In this role, you will focus on improving our monitoring using Datadog, Sentry, and Cloudwatch. It will be critical to improve and automate our release processes to deploy Newsela services. You will have the opportunity to develop a rapport with a domain of application developers to improve infrastructure and monitoring for Newsela services in their ownership

What You'll Be Doing:

• Be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact Newsela.com availability and provide support for developers during internal and external incidents 
• Maintain and assist in extending our infrastructure with Terraform, Github Actions CI/CD, Prefect, and AWS services
• Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than outages using Datadog, Sentry and CloudWatch
• Look for ways to turn repeatable manual actions into automations to reduce on-call toil
• Improve operational processes (such as deployments, releases, migrations, etc) to make them run seamlessly with fault tolerance in mind 
• Design, build and maintain core cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP that enables scaling to support thousands of concurrent users
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack 
• Provide infrastructure and architectural planning support as an embedded team member within a domain of Newsela’s application developers 
• Plan the growth of Newsela’s infrastructure 

About You:

• Technical

  • Infrastructure as code: use Terraform and Github CI/CD for automation, containerize our environments (Docker, ECS), and leverage cloud technologies to meet our goals
  • Systems: manage, configure and troubleshoot operating system issues, storage (block and object), networking (VPCs, proxies and CDNs), and administer high-availability datastores (mySQL, Postgres, Neo4J) and Redis clusters
  • Monitoring and instrumentation: implement metrics in Datadog, Sentry, log management and related systems, and Slack/JIRA integrations
  • Engineering practices: availability, reliability and scalability, as well as disaster recovery
  • Work in a variety of languages: Shell, IaC, Python, SQL

  Execution

  • Planning: familiarity with agile methodologies; use epics, issues to drive projects
  • Organization: personal and team workload organization, OKR leadership
  • Management: able to self-organize and accomplish tasks asynchronously

  Collaboration and Communication

  • Leading and contributing to scope and designs for issues, epics, and OKRs
  • Contributing to Newsela architecture diagrams, process diagrams and runbook documentation
  • Completing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and perform readiness reviews
  • Improving team practices through code reviews, handoffs of work and incidents

  Influence and Maturity

  • Knowledge sharing, mentoring within SRE and developer teams
  • Self-awareness, handling conflict in the team, providing and receiving feedback
  • Maintaining good relationships with other engineering teams at Newsela that help improve the product
  • Accountability: willing to proactively step in and do the right thing while providing candid and constructive feedback
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Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. Additional benefits such as gym reimbursement, pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, Rocket Lawyer and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. 
• Work From Home: We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs!
• Supporting ALL Families: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! 
• Financial Wellbeing: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO, paid sick time off, company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
• Professional Development: Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela.
• Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

#LI-Remote

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.

Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $136M ARR and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Production Capacity Analyst to join our team!

About the Role

Backblaze is seeking a detail-oriented, systems-minded Production Capacity Analyst to support the planning, deployment, and management of infrastructure capacity across our global cloud storage platform.

This role is responsible for maintaining accurate and reliable capacity data, supporting forecasting and hardware planning, and improving visibility into system utilization, growth, and cost drivers. You will work closely with Capacity Planning, Production Engineering, Data Center Operations, and Finance teams to ensure infrastructure growth is well understood, well coordinated, and aligned with business demand and development roadmaps.

This is a collaborative, execution-focused role within Cloud Operations, contributing to service reliability and performance, cost efficiency, and operational readiness using high-quality data, thoughtful analysis, and consistent execution.

What You’ll Do

• Collect, reconcile, organize, and analyze data across storage, compute, and network systems to support capacity planning and operational decision making
• Contribute to short and mid-term cluster and data center capacity forecasts by maintaining datasets, validating assumptions, identifying trends, and improving model logic
• Coordinate hardware and site deployment readiness across production environments, including tracking deployments, managing open orders, and effecting internal asset movements to maintain balanced capacity availability
• Maintain and improve reporting on resource utilization, growth results and trajectories, and capacity constraints and risk, ensuring data is accurate, concise, and actionable
• Monitor key capacity metrics and dashboards to proactively identify anomalies, constraints, risks, and visibility issues
• Support Compliance, Security, audit, and reporting efforts related to capacity planning and infrastructure operations by scoping requirements, organizing data and tracking execution
• Contribute to automation of data collection, reporting, and analysis workflows to improve efficiency and reduce manual efforts
• Partner with Capacity Engineering, SRE, and Systems Engineering to ensure capacity data reflects real system behavior and operational conditions
• Communicate findings clearly and support coordination across teams to ensure alignment on capacity-related activities and priorities

Right Fit

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Information Technology, Statistics, Economics, Finance, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• 2 to 4 years of experience in data analysis, infrastructure operations, capacity planning, infrastructure or production engineering, or a similarly technical role
• Experience working with structured data sets at moderate to large scale using modern database and data analysis tools, preferably SQL, Python, Snowflake, Metabase, Excel, Google Sheets, or similar languages and tools
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring systems, preferably Grafana, Metabase, Prometheus, OpenSearch, or equivalent platforms
• Understanding of core system resources such as CPU, memory, disk, and network, and how they impact performance, utilization, and scalability
• Working knowledge of core capacity planning concepts, including utilization tracking and saturation signals, headroom and buffer management, growth trend analysis, and basic forecasting methods
• Exposure to infrastructure cost modeling and financial analysis, including CapEx planning inputs, cost-per-unit metrics, and tradeoffs among stability, performance, and cost
• Strong attention to detail with a focus on data accuracy, consistency, and validation
• Clear and concise communication skills, with the ability to present technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. We're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.

At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.

#LATAM

Linqia is the leader in the influencer marketing industry. We’re a growing tech start-up, having experienced 100% year-over-year growth and break-even. At Linqia, we partner with the world’s largest brands including Danone, AB InBev, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, and Walmart to build compelling and effective influencer marketing campaigns. Our AI-driven platform and team of experts are leading the transformation of influencer marketing.

We value intelligence, recognize talent and have instilled a culture that supports career development and growth for our employees. We thrive on innovation and accountability, with a customer first attitude that adds true value to everything we touch. Our team members are smart, hard-working, have integrity and love to have fun as we play to win.

SOFTWARE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVOPS ENGINEER

Experience level  3+ YoE supporting production saas in AWS 

Location Anywhere in LATAM preferably in Colombia

Employment type Full‑time contract

ABOUT THE ROLE

Build out  a cloud‑native team that owns the entire software delivery life cycle on Amazon Web Services. You will combine deep Kubernetes expertise with Python and shell scripting to automate, monitor, and continuously improve the Linqia platform while driving FinOps practices to keep our cloud footprint efficient. Work in a GitOps culture where every change is delivered through pull requests and rolled out by automated pipelines.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Design, maintain, and evolve our AWS account structure, VPC networking, IAM policies, security boundaries, and cost‑management controls using Terraform and the AWS console
• Maintain secure networking layers with AWS load balancers, ingress controllers, service‑mesh policies, network policies, and zero‑trust principles
• Operate and harden production‑grade Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, including upgrades, service mesh, policy management, and multi‑cluster architectures driven by Argo CD
• Build reusable infrastructure‑as‑code modules with Terraform that provision cloud resources in minutes while enforcing tagging standards and least‑privilege access
• Create self‑service CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for fast, safe releases with automated testing and promotion across environments
• Deliver real‑time observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry, and use these tools to assist in solving production bugs and issues
• Administer and maintain purpose-built Linux VMs via configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Chef
• Deploy, scale, and maintain databases on AWS (Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, etc.), maintaining high database performance/uptime, optimizing tables and datasets, and ensuring disaster recovery protocols are in place.  
• Support developers by maintaining Podman‑based local dev boxes and Kubernetes staging environments that mirror production, ensuring smooth hand‑off from local code to cloud‑native deployments
• Implement FinOps practices: track and forecast AWS spend, enforce cost‑allocation tagging, identify rightsizing opportunities, manage Savings Plans or Reserved Instances, and build cost‑optimisation dashboards for engineering and finance stakeholders
• Write automation utilities and command‑line tools in Python and craft shell scripts that glue components and workflows together
• Champion reliability through incident reviews, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, and service‑level objective tracking
• Collaborate in Agile rituals, plan sprints, refine backlog tickets, and pair with peers to spread DevOps and FinOps best practices

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• three plus years working with cloud infrastructure or platform engineering focused on AWS
• Deep hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, preferably EKS, covering upgrades, networking, storage, RBAC, and custom resources
• Proficiency in Python and Bash or Zsh scripting
• Strong understanding of core AWS services EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch
• Demonstrated experience applying FinOps principles: cost monitoring, forecasting, and optimisation on AWS
• Solid experience with Docker and container runtimes, with emphasis on Podman for local development environments
• Hands‑on practice with configuration‑management tools such as Ansible or Puppet and infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform
• Proven use of Datadog for metrics, logs, and APM, plus familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
• Comfortable with Git‑based workflows, feature branching, and pull‑request reviews
• Strong SQL skills and a deep understanding of relational database internals
• Competent in Linux administration, process troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Practical knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and common networking tools
• Clear communication skills and an ability to translate complex technical topics to diverse audiences
• Familiarity with Scrum or Kanban and a continuous‑improvement mindset

EXTRA CREDIT

• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or FinOps Practitioner
• Experience with AWS security tooling GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM Access Analyzer, and KMS
• Building data pipelines with Apache Spark, Flink, or similar frameworks
• Implementing event‑driven architectures with Kafka Streams or KSQL
• Applying SRE practices such as error budgets and service‑level dashboards
• Exposure to machine‑learning workflows, ModelOps, or MLOps in production

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Important Information 

Location: Costa Rica

Work Mode: Hybrid

Job Summary 

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (20669), you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient software applications. Your role will involve leading technical projects, mentoring junior engineers, and continuously improving software development practices to ensure the delivery of robust and reliable software systems.  

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of data platforms built on Azure and Databricks
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment processes
• Monitor systems, manage incidents, and drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborate with data and platform teams to optimize performance, cost efficiency, and release management processes

Qualifications and Skills 

About Encora 
 
Encora is a global company that offers Software and Digital Engineering solutions. Our practices include Cloud Services, Product Engineering & Application Modernization, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience & Design Services, DevSecOps, Cybersecurity, Quality Engineering, AI & LLM Engineering, among others.  

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.  

Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Location

• San Jose, Costa Rica - Remote

• Summary of role

  Own availability, the most important product feature, by continually striving for sustained operational excellence of Sumo’s planet-scale observability and security products.  Work with your global SRE team to optimize operations, increase efficiency in our use of cloud resources and our developer’s time, harden security posture, and increase the feature velocity of our developers.  Work closely with multiple teams on assisted engagements to optimize the operations of their microservices.

  Responsibilities

  • Continually improve the lifecycle of microservices and architectural components from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
  • Participate in defining, evolving, and managing SLOs
  • Write code and automation to reduce operational workload, increase efficiency, improve security posture, eliminate toil, and enable Sumo’s developers to deliver features more rapidly.
  • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Facilitate blame-free root cause analysis meetings for incidents to learn and drive improvement.
  • Participate in and continually improve our global IRC (incident response coordination) for all products.
  • Drive root cause identification and issue resolution with the various teams.
  • Work inside a fast-paced iterative environment.

  Required Qualifications and Skills

  • Cloud native application development experience leveraging best practices and design patterns
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack
  • Deep understanding of AWS Networking, Compute, Storage, and managed services.
  • Competency with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins
  • Experience with full life cycle support of services, from creation to production support
  • Versed in Infrastructure as Code practices using technologies like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
  • Ability to author production-ready code in at least one of the following: Java, Scala, or Go.
  • Experience with Linux systems and at home on the command line
  • Understand and apply modern approaches to cloud-native software security
  • Experienced with agile frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban, and how to operate within these frameworks to continually deliver value.
  • Flexible and willing to step into new roles and responsibilities
  • Willingness to learn and use Sumo Logic products for solving reliability and security issues
  • Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another scientific or technical discipline
  • 6+ years of industry experience.

  Desirable Skills

  • Experience using Sumo Logic products or other observability products for reliability and security
  • Experienced with planet-scale product development
  • Running and operating SaaS products on AWS Cloud with expert-level proficiency
  • Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka, Kafka Streams, or KSQL
  • Expert-level experience in one or more of: Java, Go, Scala, or Python
  • Expert-level experience in one or more of: Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes
  • Extensive experience running and tuning JVM workloads at scale

  About Us

  Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

  Sumo Logic Privacy Policy. Employees will be responsible for complying with applicable federal privacy laws and regulations, as well as organizational policies related to data protection.

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.

Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $136M ARR and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Technical Support Engineer to join our team!

About the Role:

This role combines foundational curiosity with growing technical expertise to resolve complex customer issues involving Backblaze products and 3rd party integrations. The Technical Support Engineer demonstrates initiative, analytical detail, and a commitment to professional communication while taking action on technical issues ranging from individuals and small businesses up to Enterprise customers.

What you'll do:

• Handle and resolve customer issues, driving issues to resolution, and acting as an ambassador of Backblaze and its products.
• Communicate directly with customers via video/phone call for information gathering and troubleshooting needs, utilizing call control and de-escalation skills.
• Manage escalations received from the account administration team and other groups.
• Provide Silent Install Troubleshooting for the Backblaze Backup Client and Silent Installer/Enterprise Deployment Support.
• Troubleshoot a variety of integrations.
• Act as a technical resource to the CSM and other sales teams.
• Conduct detailed investigation of reported "Bugs" to provide Quality Assurance (QA) a detailed report, including QA Data Collection (Error logs, Behavior patterns, OS specifics, Application version).
• Review support tickets for potential trends/issues, focusing on integrations, and providing trend reporting to Leadership/Management.
• Expand and contribute to documentation, including Log and error Confluence KB expansion, and communicating updates to the Technical Writing team for public-facing KB Articles.
• Provide Integration Training to the team via "Get Familiar With" meetings.
• Track issues using task management systems like JIRA.
• Monitor Backblaze infrastructure outages and alerts (Sev-1 through Sev-4).
• Utilize advanced technical knowledge of Backblaze Products (Backup/B2/S3) and network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTPS, Telnet/MTR(ICMP)).
• Implement processes to escalate issues and work cross-functionally with other teams (Operations, SRE, TAMS, Engineering, NetEng).

The Right Fit:

• Experience in customer-facing technical support.
• Foundational Understanding and competency with Linux, MacOS, and Windows operating systems, including text shells (Bash, Terminal, CMD, PowerShell).
• Competence and familiarity with technical concepts involving networking and filesystems.
• Familiarity with task tracking and management systems (ticketing, JIRA, Salesforce).
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and a drive for personal development.
• Experience with API usage and Python familiarity (installation and use).
• Comfortable with AI Agents and Tools to enhance productivity.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience. 

Nice to Have:

• Expertise/Experience with Text Shells (Powershell, Bash, and Terminal).
• Scripting and Automation Experience or Familiarity.
• Backblaze Backup Troubleshooting Expertise, including error codes, Bztransmit Errors, and Installation Errors.
• Networking troubleshooting experience, including knowledge of CORS, TCP/IP, TLS, and HTTPS.
• General knowledge of Internet protocols, Computing, data collection, and analysis.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (Opensearch and Grafana).

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. We're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.

At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.

#LATAM

Linqia is the leader in the influencer marketing industry. We’re a growing tech start-up, having experienced 100% year-over-year growth and break-even. At Linqia, we partner with the world’s largest brands including Danone, AB InBev, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, and Walmart to build compelling and effective influencer marketing campaigns. Our AI-driven platform and team of experts are leading the transformation of influencer marketing.

We value intelligence, recognize talent and have instilled a culture that supports career development and growth for our employees. We thrive on innovation and accountability, with a customer first attitude that adds true value to everything we touch. Our team members are smart, hard-working, have integrity and love to have fun as we play to win.

SOFTWARE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVOPS ENGINEER

Experience level  3+ YoE supporting production saas in AWS 

Location Anywhere in LATAM preferably in Colombia

Employment type Full‑time contract

ABOUT THE ROLE

Build out  a cloud‑native team that owns the entire software delivery life cycle on Amazon Web Services. You will combine deep Kubernetes expertise with Python and shell scripting to automate, monitor, and continuously improve the Linqia platform while driving FinOps practices to keep our cloud footprint efficient. Work in a GitOps culture where every change is delivered through pull requests and rolled out by automated pipelines.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Design, maintain, and evolve our AWS account structure, VPC networking, IAM policies, security boundaries, and cost‑management controls using Terraform and the AWS console
• Maintain secure networking layers with AWS load balancers, ingress controllers, service‑mesh policies, network policies, and zero‑trust principles
• Operate and harden production‑grade Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, including upgrades, service mesh, policy management, and multi‑cluster architectures driven by Argo CD
• Build reusable infrastructure‑as‑code modules with Terraform that provision cloud resources in minutes while enforcing tagging standards and least‑privilege access
• Create self‑service CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for fast, safe releases with automated testing and promotion across environments
• Deliver real‑time observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry, and use these tools to assist in solving production bugs and issues
• Administer and maintain purpose-built Linux VMs via configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Chef
• Deploy, scale, and maintain databases on AWS (Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, etc.), maintaining high database performance/uptime, optimizing tables and datasets, and ensuring disaster recovery protocols are in place.  
• Support developers by maintaining Podman‑based local dev boxes and Kubernetes staging environments that mirror production, ensuring smooth hand‑off from local code to cloud‑native deployments
• Implement FinOps practices: track and forecast AWS spend, enforce cost‑allocation tagging, identify rightsizing opportunities, manage Savings Plans or Reserved Instances, and build cost‑optimisation dashboards for engineering and finance stakeholders
• Write automation utilities and command‑line tools in Python and craft shell scripts that glue components and workflows together
• Champion reliability through incident reviews, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, and service‑level objective tracking
• Collaborate in Agile rituals, plan sprints, refine backlog tickets, and pair with peers to spread DevOps and FinOps best practices

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• three plus years working with cloud infrastructure or platform engineering focused on AWS
• Deep hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, preferably EKS, covering upgrades, networking, storage, RBAC, and custom resources
• Proficiency in Python and Bash or Zsh scripting
• Strong understanding of core AWS services EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch
• Demonstrated experience applying FinOps principles: cost monitoring, forecasting, and optimisation on AWS
• Solid experience with Docker and container runtimes, with emphasis on Podman for local development environments
• Hands‑on practice with configuration‑management tools such as Ansible or Puppet and infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform
• Proven use of Datadog for metrics, logs, and APM, plus familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
• Comfortable with Git‑based workflows, feature branching, and pull‑request reviews
• Strong SQL skills and a deep understanding of relational database internals
• Competent in Linux administration, process troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Practical knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and common networking tools
• Clear communication skills and an ability to translate complex technical topics to diverse audiences
• Familiarity with Scrum or Kanban and a continuous‑improvement mindset

EXTRA CREDIT

• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or FinOps Practitioner
• Experience with AWS security tooling GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM Access Analyzer, and KMS
• Building data pipelines with Apache Spark, Flink, or similar frameworks
• Implementing event‑driven architectures with Kafka Streams or KSQL
• Applying SRE practices such as error budgets and service‑level dashboards
• Exposure to machine‑learning workflows, ModelOps, or MLOps in production

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Site Reliability Engineer I

Location

• San Jose, Costa Rica - Remote

Summary of role

Own availability, the most important product feature, by continually striving for sustained operational excellence of Sumo’s planet-scale observability and security products.  Work with your global SRE team to optimize operations, increase efficiency in our use of cloud resources and our developers’ time, harden security posture, and increase the feature velocity of our developers.  Work closely with multiple teams on assisted engagements to optimize the operations of their microservices.

Responsibilities

• Continually improve the lifecycle of microservices and architectural components from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Participate in defining, evolving, and managing SLOs
• Write code and automation to reduce operational workload, increase efficiency, improve security posture, eliminate toil, and enable Sumo’s developers to deliver features more rapidly.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Facilitate blame-free root cause analysis meetings for incidents to learn and drive improvement.
• Participate in and continually improve our global IRC (incident response coordination) for all products.
• Drive root cause identification and issue resolution across teams.
• Work inside of a fast-paced iterative environment.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Cloud native application development experience leveraging best practices and design patterns
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack
• Understanding of AWS Networking, Compute, Storage, and managed services.
• Experience with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins
• Versed in Infrastructure as Code practices using technologies like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience with full life cycle support of services, from creation to production support
• Ability to author production-ready code in at least one of the following: Java, Scala, or Go.
• Experience with Linux systems and at home on the command line
• Understand and apply modern approaches to cloud-native software security
• Experience with agile frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban, and how to operate within these frameworks to continually deliver value.
• Flexible and willing to step into new roles and responsibilities
• Willingness to learn and use Sumo Logic products for solving reliability and security issues
• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another scientific or technical discipline
• 1+ years of industry experience.

Desirable Skills

• Experience using Sumo Logic products or other observability products for reliability and security
• Experienced with planet-scale product development
• Running and operating SaaS products on AWS Cloud with expert-level proficiency
• Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka, Kafka Streams, or KSQL
• Advanced level experience in one or more of: Java, Go, Scala, or Python
• Advanced level experience in one or more of: Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes
• Extensive experience running and tuning JVM workloads at scale

About Us

Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

Sumo Logic Privacy Policy. Employees will be responsible for complying with applicable federal privacy laws and regulations, as well as organizational policies related to data protection.

About the Role

Join forces with Appnovation to deliver high-impact results for one of our key strategic partners - a global leader in their field. This engagement offers a unique vantage point into a world-class organization with exceptional opportunities for professional growth and long-term career advancement

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will manage the "discovery-to-scale" pipeline, identifying recurring patterns in the field and handing off validated solutions to Platform Engineers for enterprise generalization. In this forward-deployed role, you will bridge the gap between building technical products and solving real-world business problems through rapid solution delivery and deep domain immersion. Your primary objective is to design and build data integration, storage systems, and infrastructure that enable analytics and AI capabilities.

This role requires high-level autonomy, where you will define your own direction within strategic goals, influence multiple teams, and navigate high complexity and ambiguity to deliver tangible business results.

What we are looking for

• Experience & Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering with 8–12 years of relevant experience leading and delivering complex data engineering projects with multi-team or business impact.
• Enterprise Data Integration & Architecture: Proven expertise in designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable data pipelines (ETL/ELT). Must demonstrate the ability to navigate complex enterprise data landscapes, effectively handle undocumented schemas, and implement resilient integration solutions for high-volume data.
• Cloud-Native Data Ecosystems: Deep expertise in deploying and managing data infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and establishing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for data solutions.
• Advanced Data Modeling: Strong skills in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, with the ability to balance data normalization, query performance, and safely manage complex schema migrations in production.
• AI/MLOps Readiness: Mastery of incorporating AI tools to optimize data engineering workflows and the ability to design data validation and evaluation frameworks that support the deployment and governance of AI/ML models.
• Full-Stack Solution Delivery: Capability to rapidly prototype and build complete, end-to-end data applications across diverse technology stacks, prioritizing solution speed and business value while effectively managing technical debt.
• System Reliability & Resilience (SRE): Direct experience defining and monitoring service level objectives (SLOs/SLIs). A track record of designing highly resilient data systems that ensure graceful degradation and driving post-incident improvements.
• Architectural Leadership: Ability to make sound architectural trade-offs, design scalable system components, and produce high-quality, well-tested code that adheres to enterprise standards.

Who you are

• Polymath Oriented: You bridge gaps between engineering, design, business, and science, rapidly immersing yourself in new domains to speak the language of the business.
• Curious Explorer: You seek out ambiguity rather than avoiding it, driving team curiosity through challenging questions and creating an environment that encourages experimentation.
• Outcome Owner: You drive an accountability culture focused on business impact rather than just deliverables, owning relationships and making trade-offs between custom solutions and generalizable work.
• Systems Thinker: You map complex system interactions across technical and business domains, anticipating cascading effects and understanding how technology changes impact operations.
• Precise Communicator: You translate seamlessly between technical and business language, ensuring requirements are clear enough to enable AI generation and facilitate productive discussions with stakeholders.
• Problem Discoverer: You embed with users to discover latent needs, turning ambiguity into clear problem statements rather than waiting for defined tasks.

What Appnovation Offers 

• Challenging and rewarding work with real impact
• Direct Access to Cutting-Edge AI Platforms
• Diverse and Inclusive Culture 
• Growth opportunities for personal and professional development
• A collaborative and innovative work environment where your ideas are valued
• Exposure to exciting projects and high-profile clients
• Supportive work environment with access to company leaders
• Hybrid working model