Devops Engineer

Role: Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Location: Redwood City, CA

Duties include:

• Write software or scripts to monitor systems and applications; revise software designs to mitigate failures in other parts of the stack; secure/harden application systems against compromise.
• Deploy software configuration management (SCM) using Ansible, Puppet, or J
• Maintain SCM repositories and user access.
• Troubleshoot GIT issues and support engineering and testing team around GIT.
• Implement zero-downtime production pushes using F5 load balancer APIs
• Orchestrate deployment dependencies using Jenkins and Ansible for application and services; troubleshoot deployment issues.
• Review application performance using OpenSource graphing utilities like Graphite, Grafana, etc.; debug application errors and improve performance by identifying the root cause and routing to the responsible teams (development and/or system administrators) for secondary analysis.
• Analyze logging and diagnostic information using opensource logging utilities such as Graylog.
• Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan computer specifications and layouts, and peripheral equipment modifications.
• Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces; and,
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Position Requirements

• A Bachelor s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field followed by 5 years of post-baccalaureate experience in a software developer-related occupation.
• Experience must include the following, which may have been gained concurrently:
• 5 years of experience with:
• scripting languages, including UNIX shell scripting, Perl, Ruby, or Python
• Unix
• software configuration management best practices and applications deployed in a hosted environment
• automated builds, deployments, and troubleshooting for multiple environments, including Quality Assurance, Staging or Production.
• 4 years of build or release engineering experience in a Unix environment.
• 3 years of experience with:
• Production Support in an agile environment
• Continuous Integration and related tools, including Hudson, Jenkins Ansible, Chef or Puppet
• web application (Java) trouble shooting.
• 3 years of experience being responsible for complex technical projects or tasks at a detail level in a fast-paced environment
• 3 years of experience working in cross-functional teams.

Personal Requirements

• good communication skills
• team player and fast learner
• ability to set priorities and deal with ambiguity
• action oriented and results driven