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.