DevOps Engineer

Our Ideal Candidate has:

• 2+ years of experience at a startup or technology focused company
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Puppet, Chef or an equivalent
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS, GPC, Azure - AWS Preferred)
• Experience with Monitoring and Log Management solutions (DataDog, SumoLogic or Splunk, etc…)
• Experience with Build and Deployment Pipelines (Jenkins, Bamboo, etc…)
• Strong experience with Relational Databases (Postgres or MySQL)
• A working understanding of code and script (Bash, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.

What you will be doing:

• Provide 24x7 support for web applications & databases when required
• Develop system requirements for new application development and enhancements with Architects.
• Automate as many repeatable tasks as possible in collaboration with the Software Development team by working with Systems Management and Reliability & Development Operations teams
• Lead troubleshooting of issues that occur in production and coordinate the activities required for resolution with developers and architects
• Develop an understanding of the application architecture in order to facilitate quick root-cause analysis for issues that occur in test and production environments
• Assist with design and maintenance of web server infrastructure and custom developed applications
• Coordinate maintenance and optimization of infrastructure used by the Software Development team to support automated deployments and continuous delivery of applications.
• Design custom monitoring dashboards for application performance monitoring in test & production environments
• Manage continuous integrations and deployment infrastructure to ensure our development pipeline runs smoothly as possible in support of our lean development SDLC.
• Design and code IT infrastructure automation code to manage server/application/network and virtualized resources within our DEV/TEST/PRODUCTION infrastructure