Figment is hiring a
Senior DevOps Engineer in Canada

Summary

Figment is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale their operations by managing and implementing projects for deployments across multiple use cases. The role involves identifying areas of automation, managing cloud and physical servers, debugging complex distributed blockchains, and acting as a mentor to others on the team.

Requirements

• In-depth experience supporting Linux servers in large environments with over 500 servers, preferably in highly secure and highly available 24/7 environments
• Deep troubleshooting expertise to quickly identify server, network, and application issues, and methodical approach to implementing, testing, and measuring changes to remediate issues
• Knowledge of common OS and application level settings to optimize system performance
• Experience with common system administration scripting languages such as bash and Python
• In-depth experience using Ansible (or similar tools) to environments with over 500 servers. Experience designing complex static and dynamic inventories, variable structures, and playbooks. Writing custom Ansible roles from scratch with advanced features of Ansible such as Jinja2 templating, complex logic flows, dynamic role/task includes, and handlers
• In-depth experience creating well organized modules with Terraform to ensure cloud provisioning automation can be easily reused. Experience creating image build pipelines with Packer
• Deep understanding of networking and security best practices
• Experience with Hashicorp Vault or other secure storage tools

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, testing, implementation, and management of projects to deliver scalable, maintainable, secure, and stable deployments across a number of different use cases
• Identify common areas where automation can significantly increase our ability to manage all our infrastructure
• Manage and monitor cloud and physical servers across multiple global hosting services and data centers
• Automation of blockchain software build, install, and management processes
• Debugging complex distributed blockchains to help run them smoothly
• Explain broad initiatives and vision to Engineering Leadership and Product

Benefits

• 100% remote-first environment, with co-working spaces in our employee ‘hubs’ across the globe for those who enjoy a hybrid model
• 4 weeks of PTO that kick in day one, with an additional 1 week of flex days
• Extended company-paid health benefits that kick in day one
• Best in class parental leave and flexible arrangements
• A home office stipend to create a space that you enjoy working in
• Monthly Wifi reimbursement
• A yearly Learning & Development budget
• 401K (US) or RRSP match (Canada)
• Stock Options in the company
• Competitive bonus (based on company performance) that is distributed bi-annually - we believe that the company’s success should be shared with our employees often