DevOps Engineer

Description

Key responsibilities includeSupport the large infrastructure running Linux in AWS.Work closely with a team of developers, database and QA engineers, to understand and anticipate the agile infrastructure needs of the development and testing processes; create an environment where development and QA work can proceed securely, efficiently, and flexibly.Provide for and anticipate horizontal scaling of environments and anticipate infrastructure growth as the business grows.Improve the continuous testing and deployment process.Work heavily using Docker/CoreOS/Kubernetes/Terraform for configuration management.Provide networking expertise to the team.Work collaboratively to provide infrastructure guidance to the team for shortterm issues and longterm planning and vision. RequirementsExpert knowledge of Linux Systems Engineering.2+ years experience with standard Linux/UNIX daemons (apache, nginx, ssh, cron, bind, ldap, syslog, ntp).Demonstrated proficiency writing complex scripts in a standard scripting language (Bourne shell, Python, Ruby, Perl), and some experience in a traditional programming language (C/C++/Java/Go).Extensive knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies.Experience supporting databases (MySQL/Postgres, MongoDB).Experience supporting high traffic web environments.Experience with continuous deployment.Experience working with a modern configuration management tool such as Chef, Puppet, Docker, or Ansible; thorough understanding of configuration management concepts.Work and play well with others; SoFi is a collaborative environmentPlussesKnowledge of Consul, CoreOS, Redis, and ActiveMQExperience using distributed source code management tools such as Git or MercurialKnowledge of Atlassians suite of tools, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, BitBucket.Knowledge of AWS and familiarity interacting with the AWS APIs; experience with networking, properly architecting high availability systems, and security in an AWS context