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RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a member of DevOps team you will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of the infrastructure and tooling within this client:
- Proactively maintain the availability of the client’s cloud infrastructure
- Work closely with software engineering teams to constantly improve availability of services
- Manage seamless upgrades of infrastructure and services through automation
- Leverage container platforms such as Kubernetes for large scale deployment of microservices
- Design, deploy, and manage this client’s infrastructure in public clouds (AWS or GCP)
- Identify, gather, analyze and automate responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts
- Ensure infrastructure security compliance
- Disaster recovery planning and regional failover testing
- Capacity management and planning
- Automatic scaling of infrastructure and services
- Conduct post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures
- Develop and optimize continuous integration and deployment processes (CI/CD)
- Conduct periodic on-call duties as needed on a regular scheme basis
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- BS in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Fluent in one or more of: Python, Go, Java, or Ruby
- Deep knowledge of containerization and cloud services frameworks in both Kubernetes and AWS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 4+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure or backend engineering
- Interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
- Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
- Excellent skills in process, documentation, and change management.
- Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting tools such as New Relic, ELK, DataDog, and PagerDuty