DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team.

In this role, you will be responsible for implementing DevOps infrastructure projects, designing and implementing secure automation solutions, and managing our continuous integration and delivery pipeline.

You will work closely with a cross-functional engineering team to deploy and maintain critical applications on a cloud-native microservices architecture.

 

Responsibilities:

As part of a team implement DevOps infrastructure projectsDesign and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments

• Design, develop and scale infrastructure-as-code
• Build and deploy automation, monitoring, and analysis solutions
• Manage our continuous integration and delivery pipeline to maximize efficiency
• Implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management
• Secure, scale, and manage Linux virtual environments
• Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring
• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement
• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture*
• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies
• Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments
• Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering team

Requirements:

• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, etc)
• Proficiency in scripting languages including Bash, Python
• Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/ECS)
• Expertise with AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, RDS, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda)
• Version control system experience (e.g. Git)
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation)
• Bachelor or master’s degree in CS, or equivalent practical experience
• Effective communication skills
• An ability to drive to goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail
• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
• Understanding of monitoring tools (Pagerduty, CloudWatch, Datadog, etc)
• Database administration of Postgresql or similar