DevOps Engineer

Who we are?

Modus Capital is an early to mid-stage ecosystem development fund that focuses on entrepreneurial ecosystem development in frontier markets by connecting them with developed markets providing cross border deal-flow, capital flows, and knowledge transfer. Our focus is the creation of new technologies to alleviate consumer and business pain points and the application of technology value-added for small-to-medium enterprises. Modus’ expertise lies in growing businesses by providing holistic operational support - something that we have developed, executed, and mastered over the past 5 years.

Job Description

  • Create and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations 
  • Help resolve issues in production, test, and dev environments
  • Test our systems and processes
  • Play a critical role in building systems to manage and automate servers.
  • Help the development team with tools and services to enhance productivity

Qualifications

  • A minimum of seven years of DevOps/Systems administrator or equivalent distributed systems development experience; preferably in a cloud hosted environment.
  • Experience in implementing production infrastructures and applications.
  • Basic understanding of cloud native container technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Docker experience with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet is preferred
  • Basic software development skills/experience; scripting experience is preferred with a proficiency in Unix/Linux environments.
  • Design and develop continuous CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Gitlab, Bitbucket is preferred. 
  • Strong understanding of networking, identity management, monitoring, logging, vulnerability management, and concepts; depth of understanding with security concepts, protocols and configuration (authentication, authorization, encryption, PKI) with knowledge of IT operating models and processes and experience hardening infrastructures & systems and developing highly available & scalable systems is a plus
  • Capability to work with other technical team members to assess needs, provide assistance, and resolve technical problems.
  • Experience in working in an Agile development environment.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Organized, proactive, sense of ownership and detail-oriented.

Additional Information

What we offer?

  • You would work with a partially remote team of different nationalities on products in multiple industries, different countries and at various stages.
  • Awesome work environment.
  • Unlimited vacations.
  • Quarterly bonuses based on meeting certain milestones.
  • Annual professional development budget focused on your continuous learning and growth with us.
  • Work from home policy.
  • Social and family medical insurance.

Note: We currently work from home due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

We are a value accelerator for companies and investment capital seeking to maximize growth and ROI. Modus Capital is a hybrid venture capital & operating firm based in New York with offices in Dubai and Cairo, Egypt. We actively assist entrepreneurs in building transformational businesses by not only investing in them, but also partnering with them to create the most effective strategies to take their company to the next level. We allow investors to participate in high-value, high-growth opportunities while operationally supporting entrepreneurs in realizing their dreams. We believe that institutional investors like Modus Capital have a responsibility to provide more than just funding to their portfolio companies.