Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

A major financial services company in NYC is growing its team rapidly, and they are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer who can join.

If you’re passionate about high-availability, reliability, automation, we’d be excited to talk to you. Some technologies we are currently using: Linux, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Keycloak, HAProxy, ELK Stack, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Grafana, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, OpenVPN.

Hope you’ll enjoy doing the following on a daily basis:

• Documentation: Write specifications and documentation for the server-side features
• Development: Develop tools to help deploy and maintain our products.
• Project planning: Share knowledge of possible configurations, risk, impact, and costs vs. benefits. Communicate operational requirements and development forecasts.
• Testing: Test code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline and minimize errors.
• Deployment: Use configuration management software to automatically deploy updates and fixes into the production environment.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting: Perform routine application maintenance to ensure the production environment runs smoothly. Develop maintenance requirements and procedures.
• Performance management: Recommend performance enhancements by performing analysis, identifying alternative solutions, and assisting with modifications.

Our team can get you up to speed if you have the fundamentals below:

• Have experience in Linux systems administration and understanding of how load balancers, web servers, databases, caching daemons, etc. work.
• Have experience in shell scripting and one on more interpreted languages (ruby, python, Perl, etc)
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Are pragmatic, iterative, and customer-driven.
• Are organized, self-starting, and resourceful. You know how and when to ask for help.
• Truly enjoy reduplicating work, automating processes, and improving the bus-factor whenever possible.
• Are curious and desire to learn.