Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our New York team who is passionate about working on teams that solve interesting, large-scale problems at a rapid pace. This role will contribute heavily to the buildout and iteration of our existing and emerging systems, powering an ever-expanding set of product offerings. As a member of our engineering team, you will be in a position to have a direct, lasting impact everywhere that technology powers our business. Leaflink is currently gearing up to tackle a large-scale platform overhaul that will strengthen our position as a technical leader within the industry. As such, this role has the opportunity to help shape and grow this new platform, as well as work within new and growing technologies. It's a very exciting time to join our engineering team! Ideal candidates for this position should possess a keen mind for solving tough problems with the ideal solution, partnering effectively with various team members along the way. They should be personable, efficient, flexible and communicative, possess a strong desire to implement change, growth, and maturity, and have a passion and love for what they do. This role comes with the opportunity to be a high performer within a department that's fast-paced, dynamic, and quickly growing in all areas.

Responsibilities:

• Strengthen our application and environment security, applying standards and best practices and providing tooling to make development workflows more secure
• Create, maintain, and iterate on our CI/CD processes for new and existing services
• Increase the sophistication of our alerting and escalation mechanisms
• Keep up to date on modern technologies and trends and advocate for their inclusion within products when it makes sense
• Help increase system performance with a focus on high availability and scalability
• Propose, scope, design, and implement various infrastructure architectures
• Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery
• Continue to Keep the Lights On (day-to-day administration)
• Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize high engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas
• Move quickly and intelligently - seeing technical debt as your nemesis

Qualifications:

• A successful track record as a DevOps / System Engineer
• Fluent in Python and Python testing best practices
• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments
• Extensive experience working within AWS and with its managed products (EC2, ECS, ECR, R53, SES, Elasticache, RDS, Redshift, etc)
• Strong experience working with automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
• Strong experience with containers (Docker, Compose, ECS, Kubernetes)
• Strong experience with various managed and self-hosted CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Travis, Drone, Mule, Spinnaker)
• Strong understanding of DNS, TCPDUMP, CDNS, SSL, Git, Firewalls and networking concepts (VPC, subnetting, VPNs, etc).
• Experience deploying microservice architecture, applications, and supporting services
• Experience working on high-traffic, international systems
• Familiar with software security best practices
• Understanding of monitoring tools (Pagerduty, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry, etc)
• An active member of the open source and New York tech community a plus
• Experience working within large-scale decoupled, service-oriented systems a plus
• An interest in the cannabis industry and / or the LeafLink brand

Benefits:

• Generous PTO
• Fun office environment
• Competitive salary
• Benefit Matching (medical, dental, vision)
• 401k Offered
• Stock options
• Team events
• New office in FiDi