Senior DevOps Engineer

Scope

Recognized as a leader within the team, the candidate will be responsible for creating infrastructure designs and guiding the development and implementation of cloud infrastructure, applications, systems and processes. This position will be working directly with application developers and QA teams to build and deploy highly available and scalable systems in private or public cloud environments with focus on AWS. 

Responsibilities

• Provides, informed, opinion and influences the direction of the DevOps platform, configuration management, build & deployment management, version control and site reliability related decision making
• Articulates and guides development of tools and processes leveraged across the SDLC for continuous improvement in agility, quality and process/tooling maturity
• Drive effort to mentor engineers on the DevOps team on proactive and reactive basis
• Continue consistent effort to shorten the release cycles, improve the supportability, enhance the performance and scalability of the application landscape
• Building a highly scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure
• Migrating existing applications to a new cloud infrastructure
• Owning, maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure and related tools
• Design and implement monitoring and alerting for production
• Work closely with developers and other staff to solve dev/ops issues with customer facing services, tools and apps
• Schedule, communicate and execute maintenance windows where necessary, or prevent the need for them
• Must be able to work in a fast paced environment with frequent deployments to production in a “0 downtime” environment.
• Responsible for coordinating all Application and Infrastructure changes through QA and into production
• Ensuring change to the production environment does not impact system stability for our customers
• Communicating and working with teams in a globally distributed environment
• Brings/Demos new tooling to the team with a view to improving how we operate
• Shares knowledge openly within the team and across engineering
• Support the uptime and performance of our infrastructure in accordance with the defined SLAs for each product
• Define and implement standardized monitoring, alerting and escalation processes for each application
• Conduct root cause analysis on application and infrastructure issues including analyzing application server logs, recreating customer issues, analyzing traces 

Requirements

• BS/BA in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• A self started with a great work ethic and a high availability mindset
• 4+ years of experience working in a DevOps role in a continuous integration environment & Delivery tools and frameworks
• A high level of knowledge in emerging DevOps tools (Spinnaker, Packer, Ansible, Terraform,Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins)
• Working experience with Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route53, RDS, autoscaling,ECS, Redshift)
• Strong knowledge of configuration management software such as Puppet or Ansible
• Experience adhering to an Agile development environment and iterative sprint cycle
• Experience with GIT, bitbucket, Github and the Gitflow branching model
• Experience working with third party infrastructure suppliers
• Solid Linux knowledge (Ubuntu / Debian)
• Comfortable with Linux scripting languages (Bash, Perl, Python)
• Some knowledge of Ruby, PHP, Javascript is desirable
• Ability to use a wide variety of technologies and tools such as NGINX, Varnish, Memcached,Redis, GlusterFS, ElasticSearch, Nagios, MySQL, MongoDB