Remote Staff DevOps Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Staff DevOps Engineer at a high-growth company specializing in AI, IoT, Cloud, and Mobile. The role involves building next-generation clouds and applications using AWS, Kafka, Cloud Native, Containers, Terraform, CI/CD, AI, and ML.

Requirements

• Passionate for continuous learning and understanding things in and around devops, site reliability, high availability and release engineering best practices
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of experience with software languages like Javascript, Typescript, Python, Kotlin, Java, Node.js, Go, etc
• Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure and AWS services: Lambda, ELB, ALB, S3, EC2, VPC, CloudFormation, Route53, ECS, RDS, Postgres, DocumentDB
• Experience with containerization platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as code: Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, CloudFormation, etc
• Experience with high availability deployment across many regions and availability zones
• Experience with multiple AWS accounts
• Experience with SumoLogic or similar for reporting and alerts
• Experience with Linux and shell scripting
• Extensive networking experience
• Experience with setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipeline tooling
• Familiarity with virtualization tools like Vagrant or VirtualBox
• Experience working within an Agile environment
• Familiarity with leveraging reserved instances
• Experience with AWS Cost explorer and managing usage

Responsibilities

• Building the tools, processes and support for teams to be able to self-manage in an owner operator model
• Establishing and supporting infrastructure as code best practices and patterns for teams
• Managing and supporting engineering teams to release their software
• Working with cloud engineers to define repeatable processes and patterns for supporting services in a production environment
• Staying abreast of latest cloud trends and topics
• Prototyping unproven concepts to inform final implementations
• Automating everything possible. Leverages CI/CD to automate repeatable tasks and quality checks
• Managing multiple AWS accounts and providing unified operational support
• Building many common dashboards, monitoring and alerts used by the business

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud development using Javascript, Typescript or Python
• Experience with growing large teams and can describe the issues that arise with growth
• Previous startup experience
• Experience operating and monitoring large Kafka clusters