DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Ex Populus as a DevOps Engineer to work on key infrastructure services, build development environments, assist developers, and lead daily operational goals.

Requirements

• 3+ years work experience in a DevOps or similar role
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience a plus
• Proficient with Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Typescript, and MongoDB
• Experience creating docker-compose and Kubernetes configurations and environments
• Experience optimizing and building infrastructure for NodeJS environments
• Experience building robust CI/CD pipelines using Google Cloud Build
• In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux & MacOSX, networking, server, and cloud architectures
• Proven understanding of configuration, deployment, management and maintenance of large cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines
• A strong background in open source technology

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of key infrastructure services (e.g., logging, monitoring, alerting)
• Build development environments and tools for internal use
• Assist developers in debugging local deployment and optimizing computing environments
• Scope work, manage tasks, and estimate project delivery
• Provide guidance on long-range platform requirements and operational guidelines, with a focus on automation and continuous improvement of service composability and availability
• Develop and own best practices/methodologies for provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, monitoring, etc. to improve organization-wide visibility into how distributed systems interact and perform in production
• Analyze and comprehend how customers are using the platform and help drive continuous improvement of the offering based on that
• Lead daily operational goals with the team
• Uphold high standards of engineering excellence in coding, testing, and deployment
• Implement and maintain robust security measures to protect against threats such as DDoS attacks, DNS vulnerabilities, and other cyber threats
• Develop and enforce security best practices throughout the organization, enhancing system security and resilience against potential breaches