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About the Role:

As a Senior DevOps Software Engineer, you will actively interface with software developers, product managers, test engineers, and administrators on projects to design and develop the build, release, and deploy toolchain for DevOps while providing on-call support. You should be able to identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly and effectively, sometimes under pressure. Responsibilities include capacity planning, high availability engineering, performance tuning, and automation/tools development.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop the build, release, and deploy toolchain for DevOps
• Setup, manage and maintain parity across development, staging, and production application environments in cloud infrastructure
• Provide release cadence across multiple environments
• Prototype and develop cloud-native architecture solutions for application needs
• Design and implement monitoring infrastructure development
• Provide support for production operations

• Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of experience in Software Reliability Engineering/Systems Engineering/DevOps role is required. Additional experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Strong ability to architect development toolchains and cloud infrastructure
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and internals.
• Strong experience in developing software to automate production systems with one of the following languages: python, ruby, java, golang. Python or golang preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, RDS, VPC peering, Route53, S3, Autoscaling).
• Strong experience with container technology including Kubernetes and Docker is a must
• Strong experience with provisioning infrastructure through IAC (preferably Terraform) and cloud automation principles
• Good understanding of networking and related protocols; must have a strong understanding of fundamentals (HTTP, DNS, TLS)
• Proficiency with source control, CI/CD pipeline (eg: git, Jenkins, Harness)
• Demonstrate experience troubleshooting problems and working with a team to resolve web-scale production issues
• Strong experience with configuration management, monitoring, and systems tools (ie: Salt, Ansible, Chef, Nagios, Graphite, Fluentd, vector, etc.). Ansible is preferred.
• Good understanding of Mysql, Postgres databases
• Experience working with cloud-based technologies (CDN) is highly desirable
• Drive to build robust automated logging, monitoring, and alerting systems with tools such as Splunk, NewRelic, CloudWatch etc.
• Exposure to messaging pub/sub systems (eg: RabbitMQ, Active-MQ, Kinesis, Kafka etc.)
• Troubleshooting critical development systems (Build failures, critical web services)
• Experience with Release Management processes and controls
• Experience in secrets management solution (KMS/HSMs/Hashicorp Vault)
• US citizenship is required for this position.