Senior Devops Engineer

Summary

Join our DeviantArt team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and play a pivotal role in maintaining and architecting a robust infrastructure for one of the largest online art communities. You will ensure high availability, performance, and security of our platform, handling over 1.5 billion monthly page views. The role involves managing mission-critical production systems on a public cloud, requiring expertise in various areas, including networking, security, and database administration. This position demands a proactive approach to problem-solving and a collaborative spirit. The team is fully remote, emphasizing asynchronous communication and flexible work. The role offers a unique blend of challenges and opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies within a supportive and engaging environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing systems at scale as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Platform Engineer
• Excellent technical analytical skills with the ability to implement DDOS mitigation, troubleshoot complex problems, analyze system bottlenecks, and implement effective solutions, from frontend through backend systems, sometimes during production degradation or outage for a high traffic site
• Exceptional command line Linux skills, with proficiency in Bash and Python for investigation of server and services issues, scripting, and automation
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services, infrastructure as code using Terraform, GitOps tools and methodologies, and container orchestration using Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes
• Experience with setup, administration, and maintenance of sharded MySQL database clusters while maintaining no downtime or data loss
• Excellent communication skills with fluent English, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams while articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• The ability to get up to speed on systems, make decisions, be flexible, and execute independently with attention to detail for production systems

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain a highly available infrastructure with a focus on proactive and reactive DDOS mitigation, autoscaling, self-healing, site performance, and cost optimization
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, responding swiftly to outages or performance issues, and focus on less urgent alerts during normal work hours
• Maintain and develop a developer environment and CI/CD pipelines in parity with production systems, for seamless testing and release of changes
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using configuration management tools, complete with tests and documentation
• Optimize and support sharded MySQL databases for efficient and reliable data handling amidst growing data reads and writes
• Regularly update system components to avoid security issues and ensure up-to-date technology

Benefits

• Fully remote and distributed team
• Asynchronous communication within and across teams