Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer Remote

Long term contract

Position Summary
This hands-on engineering role will report to the Director - Information Services and will have a full range of responsibilities to evolve and support hosting of company applications and cloud infrastructure, including collaboration with senior members of the DevOps team and setting the strategy for how we build, deploy, monitor, and operate our application. This role is ultimately responsible for the success of the DevSecOps team's processes, close collaboration with the rest of the engineers and potential growth of the team.

Primary Responsibilities (include but are not limited to)

• Own availability and performance of the company's hosted products.
• Provide hands-on expertise to the team, leveraging agile methodologies and DevOps principles.
• Work on initiatives to ensure cost-effective solutions (while maintaining quality),
• Manage the operational aspect of the platform (Jump in and help troubleshoot issues).
• Own the monitoring and alerting.
• Maintain the CI/CD pipelines of various projects (running on Github)
• Work to ensure a 99.9% uptime of the development / staging/ production environment.
• Coding of infrastructure systems to deploy & operate a fully automated & containerized development / production environment.
• Maintain and deploy highly available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
• Champion documentation effort to capture the "tribal knowledge.
• Use of configuration management toolsets to ensure systems are kept up to date with the latest security updates.
• Working closely with the Development team to implement new features, troubleshoot problems, and improve overall performance in the development / production environments.

Competencies & Personal Attributes

• Significant experience successfully implementing CI/CD using modern technologies with hands-on experience using tools like Jenkins, Sonar, RLM, GitHub, AWS Code Pipeline
• Configuration management using Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar
• Requires intimate familiarity with running applications at scale on modern cloud architectures (such as AWS), ideally using Dockers and Kubernetes (or other container orchestration tools).
• Must be able to act as a champion for a DevOps culture
• Ability to iterate quickly in an agile development process.
• Excited to learn new technologies and evaluate technologies to problems.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.
• Passion for, and alignment with company mission
• A change agent and strong collaborator who is not afraid of challenging status quo.
• An individual who brings strong core values, quality, ethics, and integrity
• A collaborative team player who embraces and champions the culture
• Strong work ethic and ability to deliver results and meet commitments in a dynamic environment
• Exceptional and dynamic communications skills with the ability to inspire and influence people at all levels, build consensus and commitment, and effectively drive change throughout the organization at a rate that fits the corporate culture
• Exceptional organizational and planning skills, strong analytical abilities, and process orientation
• Demonstrates a business process orientation to IT solutions

Qualifications & Education Requirements

• BS degree or MS degree in Information Systems/Software Development/Computer Science
• Applications engineering
• Experience in Operations Management
• Experience in information security or related field
• Experience Software project/product management
• Minimum of 4-5 years of experience in a hands-on DevOps engineering role
• 2-3 years' experience designing, implementing and supporting multivendor cloud-based infrastructure and platform services including AWS (required) and Google cloud nice to have)
• 2-3 years' experience with RDBMS (privately hosted or hosted in cloud)
• RubyOnRails 5.x
• Experience in open source technologies like, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, Elasticsearch, Redis

Preferred Experience:

• MySQL 5.6+
• Redis (if not experienced, will need to learn quickly)
• JIRA API (if not experienced, will need to learn quickly)
• CircleCI 2.1 (or need to migrate to another cost-effective CI solution)
• Sentry.io (or need to migrate to another cost-effective error monitoring solution)
• Experience in open source technologies like, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, Elasticsearch, Redis