Devops Engineer

DEVOPS Engineer in NY

Location: New York, NY

Contract: W2 only

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience working as an engineer, preferably in a mix of fast-paced startup environments and large corporate environments
• You are a self-starter but very comfortable working closely with a team
• You are comfortable working with stakeholders outside the Engineering team including our Compliance, Information Security, Product, Sales and Account Management teams
• You have the ability to collaborate with remote peers across timezones, multi-tasking ticket completion and avoiding mental blockers
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation and UML diagramming
• You have strong Linux fundamentals and scripting experience, preferably BASH and/or Python
• You have a solid understanding of DNS, TLS, and networking architecture

You have strong expertise with the following:

• Cloud Infrastructure, preferably AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, etc)
• Monitoring and Logging utilties, preferably DataDog
• CI/CD Tools, preferably Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Configuration Management, preferably ansible
• Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• Build tools, notably Packer and Docker
• CLI Scripting, especially to enhance all of the above

A passion for learning new tools as the ecosystem evolves and helping others adapt

Big PLUS if you have:

• Computer-related BS or MS degree or other technical discipline
• Experience with On-Call rotations, incident response and postmortems
• Experience with Containerization and Orchestration, notably EKS, Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, OPA
• Experience building compliant solutions for international markets
• History of building and maintaining systems at large scale
• A history of documenting projects upon completion and reviewing and updating regularly

Our team must be able to demonstrate technical, functional, leadership and business core competencies as well as have most, if not all, of the following:

• Agile Practices and/or Kanban Timeboxing
• Programming Languages and Frameworks
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Product Knowledge
• MicroService Architectures
• Jira or other project management tool
• Confluence, Markdown and/or other documentation tools
• MySQL, or other Basic SQL Skills (Performance Tuning as PLUS)
• Basic NoSQL knowledge: MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc
• Knowledge of a few of the following: NGINX, Redis, Kafka, ELK, Snowflake