DevOps Lead Job Description

DevOps Lead Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a DevOps Lead to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Extremely proficient with the Unix command line, shell scripting, and configuring systems monitoring tools;
  • You are security minded, and know the security implications of every decision you make;
  • You can manage ambiguity and are able to seek out the information you need to make informed decisions;
  • You take automation seriously and you have the experience to implement automated processes (Terraform, CircleCI);
  • You have experience with configuration management, monitoring, and automation tools;
  • A thorough understanding of HIPAA with AWS is a plus, the ability to gain this understanding is a must;
  • Knowledge of all things networking: TCP / IP, ICMP, SSH, DNS, SSL / TLS;
  • You know at least one language well, and enjoy writing code;
  • You have fought fires at scale, wrestled with lost instances on AWS, and can troubleshoot processes and servers gone awry with your eyes closed;
  • Maintain provisioning and continuous integration (CI) frameworks;
  • In-office team lunches, three days per week;
  • Maternity/paternity leave (10 weeks at 100% salary, 10 weeks at 50% salary);
  • Participate in defining the DevOps technology roadmap, toolsets and strategies based on industry best-practices;
  • Maintain configuration management and continuous delivery (CD) frameworks;
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.

Requirements:

  • Strong persuasion, facilitation and influencing skills;
  • Experience with VCS such a Git, Subversion and branching/merging strategies;
  • 5+ years of eCommerce domain experience;
  • Experience with automation of tools to support monitoring and alerts such as New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk, Sumo Logic;
  • At least 5 years of experience in enterprise level IT projects Cloud based technologies (PaaS, IaaS, and Cloud Infrastructure Services);
  • Expert knowledge with Linux operating systems and command line tools, internet and network protocols;
  • Experience with CI systems such as Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab;
  • Background in networking, VIPs, firewalls and load balancers;
  • Must possess excellent critical thinking skills, reading and interpretation, writing, and communication skills;
  • Bachelor’s degree in technology field;
  • Should be extremely facts and data oriented;
  • Familiar with containerization platforms, such as Docker, Kubernetes;
  • 3+ years hands on experience using cloud-based platforms such as Rackspace, AWS;
  • Deadline and closure oriented;
  • Self-driven.