DEVOPS ENGINEER

Job Description

The DevOps Engineer works alongside Engineering and other Cloud Service Engineers/Architects to help deliver to production. This role is highly technical with an internal facing focus, providing technical competence to deliver excellent solutions. Exceptional knowledge of automation practices is required in order to make sure the optimal solution is implemented and that operations can deploy and support solutions with the highest quality.

Job Responsibilities

• Support all application infrastructure to ensure our PaaS/IaaS platform is optimized for performance and reliability.
• Consult with other technical team members and management on industry best practices. Discuss and agree on the most innovative solutions applicable to our cloud services environment.
• Maintain and enhance internal tools.
• Provide input to improve scalability and reliability of infrastructure to our Automation Architects
• Deploy and assist with maintenance of automation technologies.
• Provide Level 2/3 Support to our Operations team for all automation technologies.
• Document all build and run procedures when implementing new automation technologies.

Education and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or 5+ years of professional work experinece in a related field.
• Experience with supporting and deploying cloud based applications.

Required/Preferred Skills

• An ideal candidate should have extensive experience and knowledge in the following areas:
  • Application
    • Experience in deploying and supporting web based applications.
    • Ability to think in a Cloud Services manner.
    • Experience with orchestration toolsets.
  • Operations
    • Understanding of operational concepts like change management, on call rotations, escalations, uptime, etc...
    • Experience in manageing production systems on a very large scale.
    • Experience working with virtualization: VMWare, HyperV, etc...
    • Experience working with DB’s: MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Cassandra, etc...
  • OS
    • Deep understanding of one of the major OS families (Linux or Windows)
  • Security
    • Conscious of security concerns
    • Healthy fear of implementing an insecure solution
  • Automation
    • Experience with automation technologies (Ansible, Puppet, Chef...)
    • Experience with PaaS technologies (CloudFoundry, Openshift, etc...)
    • Experience with IaaS technologies (OpenStack, Azure Stack, etc...)
  • Public and Private Cloud
    • Experience with Public cloud hosting (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc..)
    • Experience with Private hosting (Private datacenters, Rackspace, etc...)
  • Interaction & Communication
    • Good social interaction with the immediate team as well as other teams
    • Ability to work in an extremely geographically distributed company
    • Excellent communication skills across multiple mediums.
    • Collaboration and project management tools: Jira, Confluence, etc...