DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

The DevOps engineer is a champion of automation. The ideal candidate
will have prior experience with cloud infrastructure as a service offerings. You will work closely with
development teams to integrate their projects into production AWS environments and ensure their
ongoing support once there. You thrive in a challenging environment with complex, distributed
systems.
Build solutions to problems that impact availability, performance, and stability in our
systems, services, and products at scale.
Perform a wide variety of technical and administrative duties in overall systems design,
development, and delivery.
Work in conjunction with IT, engineering, and business groups to understand functionality,
scalability, performance, security, and integration requirements.

Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of the application, systems, database
architecture, and the general application functionality used to maintain data integrity.
Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by
storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools
with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
Develop and implement instrumentation for monitoring the health and availability of services
including fault detection, alerting, triage, and recovery (automated and manual).
Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
Develop, improve, and thoroughly document operational practices and procedures.
Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto
scaling.

Qualifications and Experience

Strong experience building and maintaining production systems on AWS using EC2, RDS, S3,
ELB, Cloud Formation, etc. and familiarity interacting with the AWS APIs.
Proficient in high level script languages (Python) as well as script environments like bash.
Deep experience administering Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu) systems.
Thorough understanding of configuration management concepts. Experience with tools like
Puppet and Chef are a plus but not required – concept over technology.
Experience with monitoring, metrics, and visualization tools for network, server, and
application status (Zabbix, CloudWatch, ELK, etc.)
Experience with hardware and software firewalls, IPS, WAF, and additional security layers
(LDAP, SSO, 2Factor)
Experience with continuous integration, testing, and deployment.
Experience with RDBMS (MySQL and MS SQL). Bonus points for NoSQL (DynamoDB).
Familiar with agile development processes and experienced working with development
teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
AWS Technologies: Cloud Formation, EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, VPC and any other AWS
technologies.
Virtualization Systems: Docker, ECS
Image Automation Tools: Packer, Vagrant
Bachelor’s degree preferred and 5+ years of experience in an IT Infrastructure Engineering role. 2+ years of experience in designing, building and supporting multi-regional IaaS/PaaS solutions on Amazon AWS preferred.

Additional preferred experience listed below:

• Demonstrated understanding of Scalability, High Availability & Redundancy concepts
• Demonstrated understanding of Enterprise Security Concepts
• Building or managing a microservice architecture a plus

Certifications, Licenses, and other Special Requirements

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator is preferred

AWS Certified Advanced Networking is a plus

Job Requirements:
DevOps, AWS, Cloud

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