Senior DevOps Engineer

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Responsibilities

-Builds, releases and configures production systems. -Deploys, automates, maintains and manages cloud based production systems, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of production systems. -Installs, modifies and maintains systems and utility software on server computer systems. -Troubleshoots systems when experiencing issues by identifying what the problem is and finding a resolution. -Assess issues that might occur in the systems and mitigate them so they don’t occur again. -Ensures high availability and acceptable levels of performance of mission critical company computer resources. -Manages the company systems including hardware, software and equipment. -Stays current with technological developments in systems administration technology and recommends ways for the company to take advantage of new technology. -Learns new technologies and systems as needed with minimal supervision and assistance -Monitors system logs and activity on production/staging servers. -Writes scripts to Automate manual work specifically deployment automation and infrastructure automation. -Suggests architecture improvements, recommends process improvements. -Evaluates new technology options and vendor products. -Ensures critical system security through the use of best in class cloud security solutions and practices.

Education and/or Experience

-Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent -4 years of relevant experience. -A clear understanding of web and system security issues. -Must possess strong scripting skills (i.e. Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl). -Strong understanding of Version control systems (Specifically Git). -Strong understanding of SDLC. -Strong understanding of CI pipelines using Jenkins. -Excellent understanding of network topologies and common network protocol. -Good understanding of virtualization and containerization. -Good understanding of RDBMS (i.e. MySQL, Postgresql). -Good Understanding of cloud platforms knowledge. -Hands-on experience using infrastructure as code tools (i.e. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Terraform, Cloud formation). -Hands-on experience using one of cloud platform providers (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI). -Hands-on experience using Kubernetes.

Skills