Nisum is hiring a
DevOps Automation Engineer in United States

Summary

The job is for a Senior DevOps Engineer at Nisum, a global digital commerce firm. The role involves providing strategic direction for infrastructure, running day-to-day operations, developing innovative approaches, working with development and QA teams, and ensuring high availability of the platform. The candidate should have a solid 8-year tenure in the relevant field, be strong in Linux and Windows, have experience supporting web applications, scripting, Elastic Cloud / Virtualization, Build Automation, Systems automation and provisioning frameworks, Large Scale Databases, Test Driven Development, Middleware, Caching strategy, Familiar with high availability strategies, Software Development Lifecycle support, Monitoring systems and frameworks, Performance testing and analysis, Package management workflows, Single Sign On Technologies, Common Unix Systems Services, Security frameworks, F5 BIG-IP, Vipirion, be able to work in an Agile environment, have a critical thinking approach, REST APIs using XML and JSON, and IBM 4690 OS. The candidate should have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Applications, or a related field. Nisum offers competitive salaries, professional development opportunities, health & wellness benefits, volunteerism pay, additional benefits like 401(k) retirement savings, pre-tax parking and transit programs, disability insurance, Basic Life/AD&D, and exclusive employee discounts.

Requirements

• Solid 8-year tenure in the relevant field
• Strong in Linux and Windows
• Experience supporting web applications (Ruby and Java-based preferred)
• Scripting (Ruby, Perl, Python, Bash, Awk, PHP)
• Elastic Cloud / Virtualization (ESXi, EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Hypervisor, KVM, Xen, VDI)
• Build Automation (Jenkins, Hudson, Cruisecontrol, Electric Commander)
• Systems automation and provisioning frameworks (Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Babushka, Knife, Mcollective, Func, Kickstart, PXE)
• Large Scale Databases (MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra, Hadoop)
• Test Driven Development (junit/phpunit/RSpec/Cucumber). Middleware (MQ)
• Caching strategy (CDN, Varnish, Memcached, Redis)
• Familiar with high availability strategies (haproxy, Global Traffic Management / Multiple Datacenters, GeoDNS, failable architecture)
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) support
• Monitoring systems and frameworks (Nagios, Ganglia, CollectD, Graphite). Performance testing and analysis
• Package management workflows (Aptitude/dpkg, Yum/RPM)
• Single Sign On Technologies (LDAP, Kerberos, OpenDirectory, PAM)
• Common Unix Systems Services (NFS, NTP, Apache, nginx)
• Security frameworks (IPTables, Nessus, nmap). F5 BIG-IP, Vipirion
• Able to work in an Agile environment
• Critical thinker with a research-oriented problem-solving approach
• REST APIs using XML and JSON. IBM 4690 OS. Familiar with high availability strategies (haproxy, Global Traffic Management / Multiple Datacenters, GeoDNS, failable architecture)

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic direction and executes on infrastructure, security, continuous integration, deployment, and IT operations practices, scaling, and metrics
• Runs day-to-day operations of production and development infrastructure for a cloud-based commerce platform
• Develops an innovative approach to simplify and streamline processes to increase system scalability and reliability, improve efficiency, and minimize errors
• Works with the Development and QA teams to provide continuous improvement of existing features and rollout of new services, ensuring high availability of our platform

Benefits

• Professional Development. - We offer in-house technical training and professional learning programs aimed at developing skills across a broad spectrum of topics such as technology, leadership, role-based training, and process expertise. We also offer an annual stipend for employees to attend external courses in order to maintain professional certifications
• Health & Wellness Benefits. - We believe that your health and welfare are important, and we strive to ensure that you have affordable options available to you, including some plans that are subsidized for employees and their families up to 90%. We also have dental and vision plans in the US where Nisum pays 100% of premiums for employees
• Volunteerism Pay. - We believe in giving back and in the US, our employees are eligible for up to 40 hours of paid time off each year to volunteer towards the causes that they are most passionate about. This is in addition to personal PTO and paid holidays
• Additional Benefits. - We offer all the other important benefits to keep employees and their families healthy and financially secure, such as 401(k) retirement savings with a company match, pre-tax parking and transit programs, disability insurance, Basic Life/AD&D, alongside exclusive employee discounts on a wide variety of products and services