Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join StepStone, a global private markets specialist, as a DevOps Engineer. You will build and maintain functional systems, improving customer experience and aiding the development team in building, testing, and deploying applications. Responsibilities include deploying infrastructure updates, identifying and improving deployment processes, collaborating with the development team on platform updates, and working with IT on security. Success requires strong scripting skills (Python or Bash), Docker cluster experience, and extensive AWS knowledge. The salary range is $160,000-$175,000, and StepStone offers a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• 3-5 years' experience working with a software development team deploying SaaS applications
• 3–5 years of Kubernetes experience, including building Helm charts; knowledge of Istio is a plus
• Strong background in Linux Administration (Ubuntu preferred)
• Experience with Automation/Configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Terraform)
• Experience working with AWS services to setup and manage a SaaS platform is required
• Knowledge of managing database environments (MySQL preferred) setting up database replication, performance tuning, etc
• Working knowledge coding (PHP, Python, NodeJs)
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

Responsibilities

• Work with the Engineering team to setup, manage, and scale server resources to deploy our applications
• Ensure platform is up-to-date and perform regular maintenance (security patching, server upgrades), access to resources is limited to the proper groups
• Work with IT group to set best practices for security auditing of network resources
• Assist the Engineering team in getting network resources setup for applications, optimize the deployment process, and perform upgrades to infrastructure in order to improve user experience

Preferred Qualifications

Previous experience working in a services oriented architecture using Docker is a plus