Remote DevOps Engineer

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure the uptime of our multi-tenant infrastructure.
• Perform capacity planning and optimize our public cloud computing costs.
• Work closely with the engineering teams to improve our platforms and eliminate complexity from architecture and processes.
• Configure and use state of the art monitoring tools to gather insights and then act upon the results.
• Conduct incident response and in-depth root cause analysis.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving IT or equivalent practical experience.
• 1+ years of demonstrated experience managing and maintaining large-scale SaaS applications in one of the major platforms (Amazon Web Services, VMWare, GPC, IBM Cloud) and cloud orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Marathon, VMware, etc.)
• 1+ years of experience with Linux and/or Windows Server operating systems (strong understanding)
• Experience building and maintaining production systems on using EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, Cloud Formation, etc. and familiarity interacting with the Amazon APIs or VMWare / Azure experience.
• Deep experience administering Linux (Centos, RHEL, Ubuntu) systems OR Windows Server systems.
• Excellent knowledge of web application technology, (i.e. IIS, Tomcat, Apache, nginx, haproxy etc.).
• Experience with industry standard monitoring tools.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• *100% freelancing/Remote (work from home) job
• Salary is not a constraint for the right candidate.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experienced with declarative configuration management and provisioning tools like Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Experience with Docker
• Databases experience: MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with ITIL processes, especially Incident, Change and Problem Management.