DevOps Engineer (Telework work schedule)

Position Summary:

This position provides DevOps support and works with a team of four team members along with the Team Lead. This position is vital to the success of operations and the improvement of automated solutions using the latest in software tools and technologies.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Script/automate core processes to improve efficiency as well as platform availability.
• Manage system monitoring and alerting tools such as Splunk, AWS services such as CloudWatch and SNS, solve operational issues through engineering automated solutions.
• Work with AWS tools, services, and APIs such as Lambda, IAM, EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, VPC, Security Groups, EBS, etc. to improve efficiency on daily Operations tasks in an integrated heavily Linux environment (with some Windows resources as well)..
• Administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), prepare and build Red Hat RPM packages and implement Yum repositories, work within an agile development environment and use common tools such as Git, Jira, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Manage Java and Apache Tomcat services, work with NGINX, and other technologies and tools such as OpenVPN, and WireShark.

Required Qualifications:

• Computer Science degree (Architect, Operations, Developer) or 8+ years of Devops experience.
• 3+ years of experience in a Systems Engineering / DevOps role is required, ideally for a fast-growing company.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with managing/administering Linux systems.
• 3+ years as a Software Developer with Terraform and Ansible programming experience.
• Adept at troubleshooting Linux systems, dealing with networking issues (TCP, UDP, SSL certificates, firewalls, proxies, and reverse proxies), and fine tuning instrumentation and alerting systems.
• Experience in virtualization/container (Docker, OpenShift, etc).
• Understanding of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Ability to solve operational issues by engineering automated solutions.
• Experience with system monitoring and alerting tools such as Splunk, Nagios and Prometheus.
• Familiarity with operations activities such as backups, restores, and access management.
• Familiarity with release and configuration management (GitHub, Gitlab).
• US Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of AWS cloud experience.
• Exceptional networking skills.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server administration.
• Project management experience.