Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Establish continuous integration (CI) pipeline to fully automate deployment of the highly available, mission critical cloud platform that supports connected products
• Create scripts and templates to build cloud-based development systems for our software
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• Build tools for deployment, monitoring and operations. Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, test and production environments.
• Work with platform architects on software and system optimizations, helping to identify and remove potential performance bottlenecks
• Stay up-to- date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, understand trends and opportunities to ensure we are using the best possible techniques and tools
• Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
• Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes

Some of the specific challenges you will tackle:

• Create self-service capabilities for developers to write and manage microservices
• Automate provisioning and monitoring of a global deployment of microservices
• Configure and administer our API developer portal and API gateway
• Configure and administer authentication with various identity providers
• Implement security policies according to industry best practices
• Handle variable load patterns and rapidly increasing demand through elastic system design

 Qualifications

• Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and scripting
• Extensive experience with a public cloud provider, ideally Amazon Web Services
• Experience with automation and configuration management using either Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or an equivalent
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services
• Amazon Web Services certification highly desired
• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores
• Software process automation with popular scripting languages (PHP, Python, Node.js, and/or Ruby)
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available mission critical service
• Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language
• Experience in automation and testing via scripting/programming
• Understanding of Agile and other development processes and methodologies
• Source, build/release, and configuration management in a continuous integration & delivery environment
• Application performance analysis and monitoring
• Knowledge of best-practice security and networking techniques for an Internet-facing system

Highly desired, but not required, skills include:

• Research & investigative skills
• Technology vendor management

Experience

• 5 or more years working in DevOps, software development, or network management
• Two or more years’ experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent