DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Appspace's DevOps team as a passionate engineer contributing to a global platform. You will install, configure, and maintain compute and container instances, monitor system performance, and resolve issues proactively. Collaboration with development and QA teams is crucial, as is maintaining compliance with security standards. The role involves automating deployments and processes, troubleshooting, and documenting procedures. Opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding company are abundant. This position requires strong Linux skills, automation experience, and proficiency in scripting languages.

Requirements

• Be able to learn and understand new technologies quickly
• Be able to communicate and collaborate well with others
• Have a strong background in Linux
• Have experience with automation, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code (experience with HashiCorp preferred)
• Have experience with popular scripting languages such as Python, Powershell, NodeJS, and/or Bash
• Have solid troubleshooting experience and thinking through a process workflow to identify a fault or odd behavior (i.e., spending time following log trails)
• Have experience with MySQL & MongoDB
• Have experience with message brokering systems, preferably RabbitMQ
• Have experience implementing Microservices, familiar with Kubernetes or another container orchestrator
• Be flexible on occasionally attending remote “off-hour” meetings (we’re a global team supporting a global customer base!)

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain multiple compute and container instances running various software/service deployments of all operating systems
• Monitor systems performance and ticket queues to analyze and resolve problems associated with various servers, hardware, applications, and software before these issues are visible to our customers by impacting our applications performance
• Maintain compliance with security standards
• Assist the team with building, testing, integrating, and deploying software across multiple networks using DevOps and continuous delivery best practices
• Successfully automate deployments and processes using languages such as Python
• Work closely with development teams and the QA department to contribute to the identification, assessment, and integration of wide-ranging technologies and advanced concepts which encompasses the development, refactoring, and re-architecting of systems across our global infrastructure
• Maintain the daily health of development, staging, and production systems and environments, including the systems-associated databases (configuration/tuning)
• Troubleshoot systems and software issues, identifying the root cause for either configuration changes or engineering to address. Eventually implementation of the solution in development, QA, staging, and production environments
• Maintain and utilize the build automation system as well as the deployment automation infrastructure
• Document processes and protocols as they are defined throughout our ongoing growth into new technologies and methods

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience with Windows systems administration
• Have experience with Build pipeline tools and the Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket/Git, Bamboo, Octopus)
• Have experience with monitoring and alerting platforms, especially StackDriver
• Have a desire to improve your scripting/programming skills
• Have experience working with cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform and AWS
• Be a lifelong learner; someone who enjoys learning new systems, services, models, methods and technologies and not satisfied until they gain an expert-level understanding in the skill rather than accommodating the current requirement or problem and moving on

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Employer paid medical, dental and vision coverage
• Employer paid life insurance
• Mental health resources
• Pension plan
• Paid maternity and parental leave program
• Generous PTO
• Flexible work schedules
• Remote work opportunities
• Paid company holidays
• Appspace Quiet Fridays (No non-essential internal meetings scheduled)
• A casual dress work environment