Senior DevOps Engineer (Arlington, VA)

Responsibilities

• Ownership and pride in performance and its impact on company’s success
• Supports multiple software products and brands across the organization
• Automating and leveraging DevOps principles, always striving for operational excellence with infrastructure-as-code mentality
• Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) using latest DevOps tools and innovative methods
• Works well in a team environment as an individual contributor
• Communicate and collaborate well with teams in IT and business organizations within the company
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms (e.g., EKS, AKS, GKE, or on-prem Kubernetes)
• Support application deployments across cloud and on-prem environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and reliability
• Diagnose and resolve infrastructure, deployment, and performance issues across distributed and microservices-based systems
• Be a critical thinker with good problem solving and time management skills and an ability to multi-task
• Strong communication skills, expresses oneself clearly both verbally and in writing
• Provides help to management, including hiring, on-boarding, training and performance reviews
• Motivates team members and assesses performance, keeps management updated on team performance

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, in-person, not for profit university or college
• 5+ years’ experience with managing heavy web traffic sites using mass scale architecture with a developer focus
• Solid sizing and estimation techniques for small to medium size tasks and projects
• Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform or similar platforms
• Some experience in AWS or Azure or Google cloud
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools in areas of APM, system vitals, synthetics, and RUM
• Heavy scripting support (PowerShell), Bash, Ruby, Groovy
• Experience with any SQL or No SQL databases
• Experience configuring Content Delivery Networks (CDN) for performance caching and global traffic management
• Familiarity with infrastructure foundation components of large networks in AWS and on-prem (e.g., systems & network administration, DNS, hypervisors, containers, databases, multi-datacenters)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments
• Experience with application deployment strategies (rolling, blue-green, canary) and production troubleshooting in containerized environments

Qualifications

• Programming languages / some developer background with either Java, C#, Python, NodeJS
• Server-less architecture methodologies
• Familiarity with PCI compliance and remediation
• Mobile application support (iOS, Android)
• Experience in REST API or Microservices development
• Agile methodologies and working on short sprint cycles
• Experience with Kubernetes observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging (e.g., ELK stack)
• Experience managing Kubernetes deployments using Helm or similar package management tools

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks