Lead DevOps/System Engineer

Locations: Charlotte, NC / Piscataway, NJ (On site)

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture
• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies
• Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments
• Have on call responsibilities in rotation with the engineering team
• Increase the sophistication of our alerting and escalation mechanisms
• Help increase system performance with a focus on high availability and scalability
• Propose, scope, design, and implement various infrastructure architectures
• Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring
• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Continue to keep the lights on (day-to-day administration)

Skills and Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• 12+ years of professional experience as a DevOps/System Engineer
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/ECS)
• Expertise with Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Version control system experience (e.g. Git)
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
• Operational (e.g. HA/Backups)
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Powershell with DSC, Ansible, Chef)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code
• Experience in managing on-premise Active Directory and Domain Controller
• Experience in managing on-premise infrastructure
• Effective communication skills
• Professional experience and a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications
• Problem-solving attitude
• Collaborative team spirit

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified SysOps Administrator, Azure/AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Experience with software engineering and customer experience
• Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation