DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer
New York City Area, NY

Key Responsibilities:

• Works with the DevOps team to build and manage software delivery, systems integration, and developer support tools
• Works with other software engineers, database developers, infrastructure, operations and QA teams to design and implement quality software delivery solutions.
• Supports, troubleshoots, monitors and optimizes production systems
• Performs routine maintenance including patching and upgrades on all systems to ensure security compliance and system health
• Helps streamline software development by contributing to implementation of a continual integration process and automating manual processes.
• Under supervision of manager, ensures the integration of the Web servers and all other supporting systems.
• Helps with performance tuning, load testing, optimization of information/data processing, maintenance and support of the production environment
• Research and evaluate new automation techniques and solutions to improve efficiency and quality.
• Standardize, automate, and document setup of development and production environments.
• Performs other duties as assigned but not those of a higher level

Qualifications

• Requires 3 to 5 years of experience in multiple IT areas including 1-2 years of relevant Web/Internet experience.
• Software development background and scripting with one or more of the following languages: Java, Bash, Python, Perl.
• Sound technical understanding of the use and administration of various Linux distributions such as, Ubuntu, RHEL, and CentOS.
• Experience supporting 24x7, high availability internet application environments that include web, application, database servers and load balancing systems.
• Working knowledge of web and application server management and configuration (e.g. Apache, Nginx, Docker, Tomcat).
• Experience with build, deployment, configuration management automation tools (e.g.Maven, Jenkins, Bamboo, Hashicorp Vault, Ansible).
• Experience with virtualization platforms and cloud technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker), log aggregation, performance metrics tools (Elasticsearch, LogStash, Grafana, NewRelic)