Key Responsibilities :
- Hands-on design, analysis, development and troubleshooting of highly-distributed large-scale production systems and event-driven, cloud-based services.
- Primarily Linux Administration, managing a fleet of Linux and Windows VMs as part of the application solutions
- Involved in Pull Requests for site reliability goals
- Ownership of reliability, up time, system security, cost, operations, capacity and performance-analysis
- Monitor and report on service level objectives for a given applications services. Work with the business, Technology teams and product owners to establish key service level indicators.
- Ensuring the repeatability, traceability, and transparency of our infrastructure automation
- Support on-call rotations for operational duties that have not been addressed with automation
- Support healthy software development practices, including complying with the chosen software development methodology (Agile, or alternatives), building standards for code reviews, work packaging, etc.
- Create and maintain monitoring technologies and processes that improve the visibility to our applications' performance and business metrics and keep operational workload in-check.
- Partnering with security engineers and developing plans and automation to aggressively and safely respond to new risks and vulnerabilities.
- Develop, communicate, collaborate, and monitor standard processes to promote the long-term health and sustainability of operational development tasks.
- Participate in technical training events, game day scenarios, and professional conferences
MUST HAVE :
- 5+ Years of experience in system administration, application development, infrastructure development or related areas
- 5+ years of experience with programming in languages like Javascript, Python, PHP, Go, Java or Ruby
- 3+ years of in reading, understanding and writing code in the same
- 3+ years mastery of infrastructure automation technologies (like Terraform, CodeDeploy, Puppet, Ansible, Chef)
- 3+ years expertise in container/container-fleet-orchestration technologies (like Kubernetes, Openshift, AKS, EKS, Docker, Vagrant, etcd, zookeeper)
- 5+ years Cloud and container native Linux administration/build/management skills.
WE VALUE :
- Versatility with troubleshooting diverse sets of hosting technologies strongly desired. These include web server platforms, application platforms, operating systems, network components, virtualization technologies, storage, and database platforms.
- Expertise with cloud- continuous-deployment- based software development lifecycles (e.g. CI/CD)
- Cloud database operations and deployment experience (RDS MySQL/Postgres/Aurora), Caching operations & deployment experience (memcache, Redis)
- Expertise with Lean/Agile deployment processes (Blue/Green, ZDT, Canary, load balancers/DNS strategies A/B test, feature flagging methodologies)
- Familiarity with site and infrastructure monitoring systems (like ELK, Datadog, AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk, Sumologic, Grafana)
- Strong problem solving, root cause analysis and systems engineering skills
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Ability to design and manage escalation response plans from monitoring, react, respond, remediate and retrospect in culturally aligned (proactive, customer focused, collaborative, data-driven) ways.
- Demonstrated expertise building and managing highly scaled production infrastructure in the cloud (Azure required; GCP, AWS, OpenStack a plus)
- Expertise with SDLC branching, SCM, and code deployment systems (Bitbucket, git/gitflow, Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI, etc.)
