Devops Enineer

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be part of a team that is responsible for managing and maintaining our private and public cloud infrastructure. This person will assist our efforts to leave manual, labor-intensive processes behind and reach our goal of automation and managing infrastructure as code. The DevOps Engineer will be an integral part of the company-wide efforts to establish DevOps best practices and develop repeatable automation.

Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders: Engineering, QA, and Security teams to plan initiatives and estimate level of effort
• Assist in planning sprints and major deliverables
• Keep abreast of new technologies and evaluate cost/benefit
• Coach members of the team on efficiency, best practices, and new technologies
• Assist with onboarding new members of the team
• Plan and execute the migration or implementation of all types of workloads to cloud providers such as AWS
• Configuration management using tools like Puppet and our proprietary systems
• Infrastructure as Code, primarily CloudFormation and Serverless with AWS
• Working with Travis CI, Harness, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration tools
• Working closely with application developers to build out and support CI/CD pipelines and workflows
• Creatively solve complex problems simple solutions
• Scripting with languages such as Bash, Python, and Node.js
• Participate in an on-call escalation chain as well as off-hour maintenance and support
• Develop highly repeatable processes and AUTOMATE EVERYTHING!

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of disciplined software engineering experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major Internet-oriented applications and systems
• 3+ years of experience managing and maintaining large scale Linux and Serverless environments
• 2+ years of experience leading a team of engineers
• 2+ years working with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt
• 2+ years of experience managing and supporting systems in AWS
• 2+ years of experience using version control systems such as Git and Subversion
• Experience working with developers in an Agile methodology environment
• Experience managing and working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Harness, Travis CI, Jenkins, CodeBuild, or CodeDeploy
• Strong experience using standard server software such as MySQL, Nginx, and Varnish
• Maintain a positive can-do partnership attitude while working with teams, cross-functional teams, and cross-functional business units
• Detail-oriented, self-organized, and capable of simultaneously tracking multiple issues of varying complexity
• Communicate fluently, presenting complex information in a way that is easily understood by both technical and non-technical audiences
• Great team player!