Developer Operations Engineer

DevOps

Whiplash is seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer who will lead the way for our DevOps environment. The ideal engineer will bring their experiences, best practices, and a collaborative attitude to help drive DevOps initiatives. To be successful, one must effectively communicate with our development and operations team to orchestrate the creation of solutions that can scale. The responsibilities include building a process for automation as well as contributing to the development of internal tools to achieve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen our application and environment security, applying standards and best practices and providing tooling to make development workflows more secure
• Create, maintain, and iterate on our CI/CD processes for new and existing services
• Increase the sophistication of our alerting and escalation mechanisms
• Keep up to date on modern technologies and trends and advocate for their inclusion within products when it makes sense
• Help increase system performance with a focus on high availability and scalability
• Propose, scope, design, and implement various infrastructure architectures
• Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery
• Be an advocate for improving developer experience
• Continue to keep the lights on (day-to-day administration)
• Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize high engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas
• Move quickly and intelligently - seeing technical debt as your nemesis

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience as a DevOps / System Engineer for a SaaS product.
• Competent in Ruby and Ruby testing best practices
• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments
• Extensive experience working within AWS and with it’s managed products (EC2, ECS, ECR, R53, SES, Elasticache, RDS, Redshift, etc)
• Strong experience with containers (Docker, Compose, ECS, Kubernetes) Strong experience with CI/CD tooling (Travis, Drone, Mule, Spinnaker, Jenkins)
• Strong understanding of DNS, TCPDUMP, CDNS, SSL, Git, Firewalls and networking concepts (VPC, subnetting, VPNs, etc).
• Experience deploying microservice architecture, applications, and supporting services
• Experience working on high-traffic systems
• Familiar with software security best practices
• Understanding of monitoring tools (Appsignal, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry, etc)
• Database administration of Postgresql, Mysql and Redis
• Experience working within large-scale decoupled, service-oriented systems a plus

Bonus points:

• Experience with Heroku
• Experience with Kibana
• Experience working with Ruby on Rails
• Experience with Sidekiq