Devops Engineer

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

· Gather and analyze cloud infrastructure requirements

· Automate obsessively

· Support existing infrastructure, analyze problem areas and come up with solutions

· Optimize stack performance and costs

· Write code for new and existing tools

Must-haves:

· Experience with DevOps techniques for 4+ yrs

· 2+ yrs Kubernates

· 1+ yrs Docker

· 3+ years Azure

· Passion to work in an exciting fast-paced environment

· Self-starter who can implement with minimal guidance

· Good conceptual understanding of the building blocks of modern web-based infrastructure: DNS, TCP/IP, Networking, HTTP, SSL/TLS

· Strong Linux skills

· Experience with automation of code builds and deployments

· Experience in Nginx configurations for dynamic web application

· Help with cost optimizations of infrastructure requirements

· Assist development teams with any infrastructure needs

· Strong command-line skills to automate routine system administration tasks

· An eye for monitoring. The ideal candidate should be able to look at complex infrastructure and be able to figure out what to monitor and how.

· Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL and cloud-based relational database solutions like Amazon RDS. Database replication and scalability

· High Availability: Load Balancing (ELB), Reverse Proxies, CDNs, etc.

· Scripting Languages: Python/Bash/Shell/Perl

· Version control with Git. Exposure to various branching workflows and collaborative development

· Virtualization and Docker

· AWS core components (or their GCP/Azure equivalents) and their management: EC2, ELB, NAT, VPC, IAM Roles and policies, EBS and S3, CloudFormation, Elasticache, Route53, etc.

· Configuration Management: SaltStack/Ansible/Puppet

· CI/CD automation experience

· Understanding of Agile development practices is a plus