DevOps Engineer Responsibilities
- Responsible for the overall architecture, building, design, monitoring and support of our cloud infrastructure
- Act as the main point of contact for support infrastructure, and lead and mentor department team members
- Architect, implement and support infrastructure as code solutions that host the company suite of cloud-hosted products
- Ensure stability of all services by monitoring for trends of issues, performance metrics and capacity
- Provide in-depth diagnosis for system/software failures and develop/implement preventative solutions as needed
- Create processes that provide clarity around daily operations and cross department communications.
- Document and implement configuration standards for utilization and manageability of data-center systems
- Collaborate with Technology team regarding availability of the infrastructure, and technical considerations for planning and managing upgrades and enhancements
- Communication: Communicates efficiently and effectively, and with a sense of urgency
- Problem Solving and Managing Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
Requirements
- 5 years of experience deploying or managing mid to large scale, distributed, customer-facing, OLTP Linux environments spanning hundreds of servers
- 5 years of experience designing, configuring, scaling, and supporting a 24x7x365 hosted SaaS environment
- Deep knowledge of modern monitoring and alerting tools and practices including Open Telemetry standards and open-source tools such as Prometheus, influx dB, Grafana, ELK, Telegraf, fluent, etc
- Experience building and maintaining hybrid infrastructures and on-premise data centers
- 5 years with infrastructure automation / configuration management / IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Bicep, Terraform
- 3 years implementing and supporting modern infrastructure services such as consul, vault, Kubernetes, application load balancers and integrating these with both monolithic and service-based applications
- 5 years administering Solaris, Linux & Windows platforms
- 3 years supporting complex routing/switching environments including VPN and dynamic routing protocols
- Experience with Oracle VM on SPARC hardware is a plus
- 3 years administering enterprise block and file storage platforms
- 3 years administering MySQL platform (replication experience highly desirable) & Java application s
- Experience with Windows and Active Directory and infrastructure as a code
- Working knowledge of relational database solutions such as MySQL as well as NoSQL and in-memory database solutions
- Strong working knowledge of datacenter network topologies, components (routing, switching, fiber channel, and next gen firewalls) and various networking and application protocols, including TCP/IP
- Hands-on leadership: ability to jump in and put hands on the keyboard in high pressure situations
- Root cause mentality, always looking to understand the why and have a bias to action to solve problems
- Precision and discipline around adherence to process and standard operating procedures, but can also navigate ambiguity
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