DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team. The candidate will work with a tight, highly skilled engineering team in planning, design and operation of new and existing platforms in concert with development and technology goals and requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to our overall architecture and infrastructure, especially as it relates to availability, scalability, security, performance, etc.
• Help improve, implement, and maintain our CI/CD setup
• Participate in building and enforcing best practice disciplines for SDLC
• Provide support and problem resolution impacting our SDLC
• Build and maintain infrastructure in AWS utilizing infrastructure-as-code
• Develop scripts and monitoring tools around containing and reducing costs within AWS
• Liaise with members of the Engineering team to build awareness on best practices and effective usage of our development tools portfolio
• Foster the DevOps disciplines -- reduce friction and time to deliver new code to production

Qualifications & Experience Requirements

• Scripting/Coding experience – Python and Bash, or equivalent (Ruby, Java, etc.)
• Infrastructure-as-code experience – Terraform, CloudFormation
• Hands-on experience with AWS – ECS/Fargate, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, Auto-Scaling, CloudWatch, SSM, Lambda, Route53, etc.
• Experience supporting and administering Linux systems
• Experience around managing containers and Docker
• Experience with source control, CI and build tools – Git (Github/Gitlab), TeamCity/Jenkins, CodeDeploy/CodePipeline, etc.
• Experience working/collaborating with software engineering in an Agile environment

Nice to Have Qualifications

• Experience managing Java Spring Boot microservices
• Experience administering and managing monitoring tools - Splunk, Grafana, Nagios, etc.
• Experience administering and managing streaming data services – Kafka, Kinesis
• Experience with configuration management tools – Chef, Puppet, Salt
• Experience with data engineering tools – EMR, DataPipeline, Airflow
• Experience building Step Functions
• Experience with Github Actions
• AWS Associate SysOps Administration or Developer Certification

The Successful Candidate will be…

• An engineer who loves to solve problems.
• Excited about new technologies - you seek them out, you yearn to know more.
• Passionate about quality – measure twice cut once
• Understand that there are always improvements to be made
• Asking questions
• Taking initiative, unprompted, to become the subject matter expert in various technologies.
• Not shy towards processes or technologies you aren't comfortable with.
• Wearing multiple hats and have a can-do attitude towards DevOps.
• Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and effectively manage priorities and communicate progress.