Sr. DevOps Engineer

Job description:

THE OPPORTUNITY: 

This is a great opportunity to join a fun, exciting & highly motivated team and upgrade your skills while creating real impact. We use a modern programming stack and cloud infrastructure. We are not only looking for work experience, but rather the willingness to step up to challenges and the ability to learn quickly. If you're a smart and hard-working individual and thrive in a fast-paced environment, submit a resume and code samples (preferably on GitHub/BitBucket) to apply.

THE COMPANY: DISQO is an insights platform empowering companies to collect and analyze high quality consumer data for better decision making. We utilize cutting-edge technology, out-of-the-box marketing, and innovative strategies to collect and analyze insights which help shape the products and services of tomorrow.

THE TEAM: We believe the best software is written and managed by small teams that know how to make the impossible possible. We use agile software development techniques and modern tools to focus our efforts on solving our business goals. We use JIRA to track everything we do. We deliver early and often. We obsess over our code, architecture and infrastructure. And we believe that these practices lead to higher quality products.

YOU: You have a passion for setting up and maintaining high traffic production systems, are self-motivated, and enjoy working in a user-focused, highly intelligent, entrepreneurial environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deploy and support high-performance, highly-available infrastructure on AWS
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
• Conduct periodic on call duties
• Own the day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure
• Work closely with engineering and project management to develop tools and solutions
• Identify tactical issues and react to emerging areas of concern
• Think long-term and dislike band-aids
• Identify unnecessary complexity and remove it

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5-10 years of experience in a modern SRE/SysAdmin, DevOps, or equivalent role
• Solid knowledge of the Linux command-line and architecture
• Strong knowledge of core protocols and tech such as: TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, load balancers
• AWS experience, including but not limited to EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, Auto Scale, ELB, Kinesis, Lambda
• Capability to program in at least one language (other than Bash), ideally Python, PHP or Java
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience with APM, Centralized Logging and Monitoring tools
• Experience supporting Java Micro-Services in production
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced work environment
• Demonstrated experience in network and Linux system troubleshooting and maintenance practices
• Experience with CI tools and production code deployments
• Experience with Containers, Containerization and Container Orchestration

PREFERRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Experience with DataDog, New Relic, Cloud Watch, SumoLogic, VividCortex
• Experience with Ansible
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes

DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:

• Self-starter with the ability to independently identify and act on areas of improvement
• Meticulous and cautious. You identify and consider all risks, and balance those with performing the task efficiently.
• Knowledge and interest in the latest system architecture trends
• Ability to rapidly learn and understand new systems
• Ability to communicate effectively and write accurate, clear documentation
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative environment including strong communication skills
• Extremely curious about how things work
• Humility and Integrity