DevOps Engineer – 3

Responsibilities

• Design and develop solutions for deploying highly secure, highly available, performant, and scalable services in elastically provisioned environments.
• Design and maintain persistent storage solutions in our infrastructure.
• Own all operational aspects of running persistent storage, including automation, monitoring, alerting, reliability, and performance.
• Have a direct impact on running a business by thinking about innovative solutions to operational problems.
• Drive solutions and communication for production-impacting incidents.
• Running technical projects and being responsible for project-level deliveries.
• Partner well with engineering and business teams across continents.

Requirements

• Bachelor\'s or advanced degree in Computer Science or a closely related field.
• 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix.
• Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture, including web services.
• Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash.
• Deep experience administering, running, and deploying AWS-based services.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticache (OpenSearch), Neptune internals, performance tuning, query optimization, and indexing strategies.
• Experience with Aurora, Redis, Elasticache, Neptune architecture, including replication, failover, and backup/restore mechanisms.
• Familiarity with AWS services commonly used with the above services (e. g., RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Lambda).
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions like Aurora, OpenSearch, Neptune, and Redis.
• Experience with database migration tools like AWS DMS or logical replication.
• Solid experience with Terraform, Packer, and Docker or their equivalents.
• Knowledge of security protocols and certificate infrastructure.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Broad experience with cloud-hosted applications, including virtualization platforms, relational and non-relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms.
• Curiosity, continuous learning, and a drive to continually raise the bar.
• Strong partnering and communication skills.

Great to have Experience and Qualifications

• Experience as a senior developer or application architect is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant with any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000 HIPAA, SOC 2).

Key Characteristics and Attitudes

• In a recent global survey, these attributes were valued in all locations and functions - we firmly believe in hiring for attitude as well as skill.
• Friendly and supportive.
• Adaptable and flexible.
• Articulate and persuasive.
• High IQ and EQ.
• Curious and coachable.
• Commercially Aware.
• Resilient and tenacious.
• Big picture and the detail.