We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer who wants to join us in a fast paced setting to build next generation clouds and applications that leverage all the latest technologies in AWS, Kafka, Cloud Native, Containers, Terraform, CI/CD, AI and ML. Our tech stack is a loosely coupled, event-based architecture, built on top of Kafka with many microservices and IoT devices, that processes tens of millions events a day. As a member of the team you will play an integral role in shaping the architecture, processes and features needed to maintain and release a high scale cloud platform with teams.

Responsibilities

• Building the tools, processes and support for teams to be able to self-manage in an owner operator model
• Establishing and support infrastructure as code best practices and patterns for teams
• Managing and supporting engineering teams release their software
• Working with cloud engineers to define repeatable processes and patterns for supporting services in a production environment
• Stay abreast of latest cloud trends and topics
• Prototype unproven concepts to inform final implementations
• Automate everything possible. Leverages CI/CD to automate repeatable tasks and quality checks.
• Managing multiple AWS accounts and providing unified operational support
• Building many common dashboards, monitoring and alerts used by the business

Skills and Expertise

• Passionate for continuous learning and understanding things in and around devops, site reliability, high availability and release engineering best practices
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of experience software languages like Javascript, Typescript, Python, Kotlin, Java, Node.js, Go, etc
• Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure and AWS services: Lambda, ELB, ALB, S3, EC2, VPC, CloudFormation, Route53, ECS, RDS, Postgres, DocumentDB
• Experience with containerization platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as code: Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, CloudFormation, etc
• Experience with high availability deployment across many regions and availability zones
• Experience with multiple AWS accounts
• Experience with SumoLogic or similar for reporting and alerts
• Experience with Linux and shell scripting
• Extensive networking experience
• Experience with setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipeline tooling
• Familiarity with virtualization tools like Vagrant or VirtualBox
• Experience working within an Agile environment
• Familiarity with leveraging reserved instances
• Experience with AWS Cost explorer and managing usage

Bonus

• Experience with cloud development using Javascript, Typescript or Python.
• Experience with growing large teams and can describe the issues that arise with growth.
• Previous startup experience
• Experience operating and monitoring large Kafka clusters