As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will build, manage and support the technology infrastructure necessary to support the company's technology platform.

You will use AWS, Terraform, and other technologies to build a scalable, efficient infrastructure for our platform. You will create, implement and improve on monitoring, alerts, and security practices for the company.

You will collaborate with our Engineering teams and others to ensure that we are making the best strategic decisions as it pertains to our technology infrastructure and technology operations practices.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Build, manage and support highly resilient, scalable microservice-based systems to support business needs
• Build and deploy infrastructure in AWS, using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
• Build, manage and support CI/CD pipelines running on GitHub Actions
• Manage services ranging from AWS RDS Postgres Databases, to Okta IdP, to Kafka MQ and all points in between
• Develop and improve monitoring and incident alerting systems as part of a comprehensive approach to outages and site performance
• Collaborate with engineers on overall system architecture while considering availability, scaling, and maintainability
• Constantly work to identify and mitigate security concerns, performance gaps, and scalability bottlenecks
• Contribute to formal development and adoption of organizational policies

Must have

• 7+ years of hands-on experience building, managing, and scaling
• 24/7 cloud infrastructures, using both AWS and Terraform
• 5+ years of Linux Systems Engineering experience
• Knowledge of Unix Principles and shell tools such as grep, awk, sed, AWS CLI
• PostgreSQL Databases basic knowledge
• Scripting in Python & shell scripts
• Containerization (Docker) and container orchestration services (ECS, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Java Application Severs (in a microservices architecture environment)
• Monitoring – DataDog, CloudWatch, NewRelic, Zabbix
• Understanding what it takes to work at a start-up company, including the need to 'wear multiple hats', being proactive with issues that are discovered and flexible with shifting priorities
• Understand the importance of having proper 'sense of urgency'
• Strong command of system security and resiliency designs and best practices
• A solid mix of initiative, imagination, and work ethic