Devops Lead

Job Description

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Science, Engineering or a related field

• A minimum of 10-12 years of experience in Systems Engineering and DevOps role is required; or an equivalent combination of education and experience to perform at this level

• Strong ability to architect development toolchains and Cloud infrastructure 

• Experience in creating software to automate production systems with one of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Java, Go, etc. Python/Ruby experience is preferred

• Strong working knowledge of AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, RDS, VPC peering, Route53, S3, Auto-scaling) or hybrid environments (OpenStack)

• Experience with container technology including Kubernetes and Docker

• 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, and continuous integration (e.g. Git, Jenkins)

• 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, Nagios, Graphite, Fluentd, etc.). Ansible is preferred

• Good understanding of MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases

• Drive to build robust automated logging, monitoring, and alerting systems with tools such as SumoLogic, CloudWatch, AppDynamics

• Exposure to messaging pub/sub-systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Active-MQ, Kinesis, Kafka, etc.)

• Troubleshooting critical development systems (Build failures, critical web services)

• Experience with Release Management processes and controls