Sr DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Responsibilities

• Work with development teams to automate and streamline releases of our mission-critical distributed systems
• Based on our customers’ needs, design infrastructure configurations, both for our hosted services and for on-premise installations
• Anticipate changes to infrastructure to meet customers’ changing needs
• Write scripts to automate installations, maintenance, migrations, etc.
• Maintain, troubleshoot and administer VMs and networks for our hosted infrastructure
• Improve our Docker Swarm configuration set up for high availability and scalability to support our products
• Improve and execute on security policies, identify and resolve security issues
• Run scans, and harden server images, configuration, networks and environments
• Monitor services infrastructure performance; analyze issues, recommend and implement changes
• Automate testing of configuration and scripts
• Load/stress test configurations
• Create and run tests to determine scaling characteristics
• Document DevOps processes: develop standards to guide operations, support and maintenance
• Work with our customer to establish suitable network configurations and security policies to run our software
• Provide top tier support for on-premise installations
• Respond to security and infrastructure questions
• Plan and execute on meeting compliance requirements

Required Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Very good Linux knowledge
• Familiarity with CI/CD piplelines using Jenkins/Circle CI
• Linux server scripting skills, especially bash and higher level languages, such as Python
• Automating installations
• Network configuration, setting firewall rules and other security policies
• AWS management, especially configuring VPCs, and using IAM
• Working with Docker, Docker compose and Docker swarm
• Database scaling and clustering
• Scaling services and network infrastructure in a cloud or data centre environment
• Managed microservice-based service at scale
• How to monitor service performance, and automate scaling up or down
• How to monitor for security issues in an AWS environment

Bonus Skills

• Familiar with red/black deployments
• Experience with other AWS services, such as Aurora
• Experience with non-AWS cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure
• Comfortable scripting in Python and/or Ruby
• Experience with Chef/Puppet
• Experience with tools such as ELK, Graylog or similar
• Experience working in a SOC 2, ISO27001, and other compliance environments