DevOps Engineer

Description

About the roleBeing a global company, you would be a subject matter expert in how our data centers and cloud infrastructure function. You will need to effectively communicate and collaborate utilizing employees and engineers across many timezones. You will organize and plan projects from start to finish with other technical leads as needed. Additionally, you should not be afraid to get your hands dirty writing scripts/code, configuring hardware, troubleshooting issues, digging into logs, looking at metrics, and deciding how to scale infrastructure. We support our corporate infrastructure paying the same attention to availability, scalability, and efficiency as we do our production facing services. You will be a mentor to others as we strive to develop successful independent teams that solve problems in an efficient and cost effective manner.About YouAble to communicate effectively with team members (engineering, IT, business, etc) of diverse technical backgroundsDemonstrated ability to plan, prioritize and drive projects forwardExtensive experience in administering, troubleshooting, deploying, and configuring Linux systems in a data center and/or cloud infrastructure such as AWSKnowledge of networking technologies such as switching, routing, firewalls, and load balancing preferredHave a strong passion for automation and configuration management if you need to do it more than once, you are the type of person that will automate it (Puppet experience a plus)Previous experience working with and contributing to open source projects a plusExperience writing scripts and programs in one or more of Python, Ruby, or BashExpertise in using virtualization technologies such as Vmware, Xen, or KVMPrevious experience writing plugins and working with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Sensu, Icinga, Zabbix, etc.Working knowledge of metrics collection tools such as Graphite, Statsd, Prometheus, InfluxDB, etc.Working knowledge of distributed logging systems such as Logstash, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Graylog, etc.A working knowledge of Windows systems