DevOps Engineer

About the role

This DevOps Engineer will focus on enhancing the efficiency and reliability of the software development and deployment processes. You will work on automating configuration management, implementing continuous integration and deployment pipelines, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and monitoring system performance.

Responsibilities

• Establish best practices and standards for the DevOps team including policies, procedures, runbooks, and disaster recovery processes
• Develop and implement security best practices for AWS, including adherence to international regulations, review of the framework, cloud failover, scaling, and issue tracing
• Provide support to Engineers and Customer Success Managers, including troubleshooting failed builds as well as dev/QA/production issues
• Evaluate and update Terraform project structures and reusable modules
• Develop and refine processes for debugging and network configurations
• Manage reporting and action steps for key metrics, including alerts for all key system indicators
• Work closely with the engineering team to refine and enhance our production and development setups, and develop a continuous improvement approach to software development, testing, and deployment

Requirements

• 7+ years in a formal DevOps role
• Ability to navigate work in an early-stage company: multi-task, reprioritize, perform multiple roles simultaneously, drive multiple projects forward in parallel while meeting deadlines
• A strong desire to automate everything, including policies, processes, and infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation
• Working experience building, configuring, and deploying applications to AWS
• Solid understanding of information/cloud security best practices
• Experience with Python and tools (a preference)
• Basic knowledge of Ruby, Rails, and related tools
• Adaptable across both back-end and front-end, with the ability to handle basic backend tasks
• Familiarity with various software engineering practices, source control, automated testing, and a task-based workflow

Skills and Experience

• Experience with AWS, RDS MySQL, Docker, AWS ECS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Debian, Passenger, Ruby, Rails 6, Python for DevOps