Remote SysOps Administrator

Summary

Join our team at Pixalate as a SysOps Administrator, where you will be responsible for configuring cloud management systems, improving resources, and maintaining continuous integration environments. As an experienced professional, you will work alongside an engineering team to develop and support complex technical products.

Requirements

• Familiarity with DevOps and IT Automation tools such as Ansible,Terraform
• Investigate and contribute to solving various issues in production environments
• Experience with some, if not all, of the following AWS services: EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Redshift, Route53, CodeDeploy, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch Service, Kinesis, CloudWatch, SQS
• Experience with equivalent GCP services
• Experience with configuration management tools such as BitBucket Pipelines, Chef, Terraform, Ansible, and Serverless
• Maintain system pipelines and ensure consistent runtime and health
• Extremely strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Prior experience working alongside an Engineering team developing and supporting a complicated technical product
• Fundamental basic networking troubleshooting skills
• Responsiveness in terms of connectivity, responding to alerts, or inquiries via Slack

Responsibilities

• Configuration of the AWS and GCP cloud management
• Configure and fine-tune the cloud infrastructure systems; monitoring and managing cloud services
• Improvement of resources and work on the resources which will designate costs required for planning of governance, budgeting, and reporting
• Understanding metrics and monitors for the utilization of AWS and GCP resources on a full scale by making use of highly complex Amazon CloudWatch alarms, and Stackdriver metrics
• Upgrading software, patching kernels and errata patching; managing the disaster recovery and data backups
• Maintaining an active continuous integration environment, developing system configuration management, good security practices and supporting production applications
• Continually, identify, plan and methodically improve infrastructure systems, practices and processes
• Owning and executing the release process across all environments

Benefits

• Monthly internet reimbursement
• Casual work environment
• Opportunity for advancement
• Fun annual team events