Job Openings DevOps Engineer

About the job DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Building and implementing new development tools and infrastructure
  • Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes
  • Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
  • Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
  • Deploy updates and fixes, and provide technical support
  • Provides technical coaching and mentoring to less-experiences team members
  • Focused on either continuous integration or continuous delivery with the following outputs:
  • Plans and performs ongoing routine applications maintenance tasks
  • Assists in establishing requirements, methods and procedures for routine maintenance
  • Provide support to the Development teams to ensure automated solutions are designed with user experience, performance and operability in mind

Requirements:

  • Bachelor of science degree (or equivalent) in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
  • 3 - 5 + years experience in developing/engineering applications
  • Working knowledge of databases and SQL
  • Expert understanding and experience with basic software engineering practices and principles, Agile Methodologies and Source Control, etc. (eg. Git, Github, Deployment, application builds, zero downtime rollouts etc).
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
  • Understanding and/or experience with one or more of the following items would be advantageous:
    • AWS services. Some of the services we use everyday include:
      • EC2
      • EKS
      • ElastiCache
      • RDS
    • IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible
    • Kubernetes and running Kubernetes in a Production environment
    • Confluence/JIRA
  • Must be able to understand underlying concepts and why certain things are done, as opposed to specific technologies.
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Is self motivated and excited by the possibilities of technology
  • Has a systematic approach with an analytical mindset